Challenge
Infotainment & smart cabin systems
High-end car audio systems and voice assistants require low ambient noise for functionality. High-end car audio, voice assistants and NVH engineering are merging into one integrated acoustic approach.
Infotainment & smart cabin systems
Implications
- The car becomes an integrated acoustic system – car audio, voice assistance and NVH are not separate domains
- Audio hardware becomes part of the NVH strategy
- Consumers will have far higher expectations for cabin silence: the ability to characterize noise sources like wheels/road and auxiliary components is essential
- The vehicle architecture must support integrated acoustics
- The supplier ecosystem reshapes around system-level integration
Opportunities
- Shifting NVH optimization upstream with virtual prototyping
- Building a unified digital acoustic development environment including NVH methodologies
- Combining NVH models and simulations, for example for road noise, with acoustic design and analysis
- Changing cross-functional organizational, removing borders between involved departments
How VIBES can help
Integrate NVH analysis with acoustic simulation systems
What do we do?
Active sound design involves the modification of a system’s physical characteristics to achieve a desired acoustic experience. Our approach allows you to control and enhance the sound profile of a product, such as reducing unwanted noise or creating specific auditory experiences. By changing physical parameters such as material properties, shapes, or structures (such as mount stiffnesses), you can evaluate physical changes.
Our value
With our software, you can transfer noise and vibration simulations to acoustic simulation systems. You will be able to immediately experience the impact of virtual structural modifications on cabin noise. By simulating noise while you modify the structure, you avoid having to make many prototypes and iterations to get to the right noise(level).
Our experience
Since 2016 we have been developing user-friendly software to facilitate noise and sound simulation. As a result, our software now enables advanced acoustic simulation, through co-operation with partners in acoustics, as well as the unique capability to virtually modify structures and simulate noise and sounds in one go.
Our solutions & software products
To enable integration of NVH analysis with acoustic simulation systems, we would apply: Hybrid Modular Modelling, Transfer Path Analysis and Live Sound Synthesis. These solutions are implemented in DIRAC, COUPLE and SOURCE software with full customer success support.
Virtually optimize components in a measured assembly to avoid testing physical variants
What do we do?
Our proprietary software enables insightful modification of components, by easily replacing these components in a virtual model of the (measured) assembly.
Our value
By enabling virtual modification of components in a measured assembly, we enable quick and easy optimization of the NVH-behavior, Ride & Handling and car quality throughout the vehicle development process. Thus, we facilitate effective and efficient design and development, helping to avoid delayed product launch.
Our experience
We have developed a unique and innovative Hybrid Modular Modelling technique that allows virtually optimization of components in existing physical assemblies. We have demonstrated the strength of our methodology at many manufacturers and suppliers.
Our solutions & software products
To virtually optimize components in a measured assembly to avoid testing physical variants, we would apply: Hybrid Modular Modelling, Source Description and Transfer Path Analysis. These solutions are implemented in DIRAC, COUPLE and SOURCE software with full customer success support.
Reduce the need for complex and inaccurate numerical models
What do we do?
We break complex systems down into parts that can be accurately modelled separately. Here we use test-based models to accurately model complex parts, and numerical models for simple parts. Combined, these component models result in an assembly suitable for highly accurate NVH-analysis.
Our value
We help manufacturers avoid spending time and costs on trying to accurately numerically model complex parts that become available, avoiding false accuracy and enabling highly accurate NVH-analysis.
Our experience
We have developed advanced methodologies to enable Hybrid Modular Modelling and are regarded as industry leader. We have demonstrated the strength of our methodologies at many manufacturers.
Our solutions & software products
To reduce the need for complex and potentially inaccurate numerical models, we would apply: Hybrid Modular Modelling, and Frequency-based Substructuring. These solutions are implemented in DIRAC and COUPLE software with full customer success support.
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