Introduction to Isight

Day 1

• Lecture 1 Introduction
• Lecture 2 Isight Overview
• Workshop 1 I-Beam Integration
• Lecture 3 Design of Experiments
• Workshop 2 I-Beam DOE
• Lecture 4 Optimization Methods
• Workshop 3 I-Beam Optimization
• Lecture 5 Monte Carlo Simulation
• Workshop 4 I-Beam Monte Carlo
• Lecture 6 Approximations
• Workshop 5 I-Beam Approximations
• Lecture 7 Building Workflows
• Workshop 6 Aircraft Design Problem Weights Code

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Day 2

• Lecture 8 The Calculator and MATLAB Components

• Workshop 7 Calculator and MATLAB Component
• Lecture 9 Simcode Component
• Workshop 8 Simcode Component - EngSim
• Lecture 10 Parameter Management
• Workshop 9 Weight Approximations
• Workshop 10 Mapping & Parallel Workflow
• Workshop 11 Excel (optional)
• Lecture 11 File Handling in Isight and Advanced Parsing
• Workshop 12 Advanced Parsing
• Lecture 12 Loops and Publishing
• Workshop 13 Loops and Publishing
• Workshop 14 Combining Models
• Lecture 13 Data Matching
• Workshop 15 Data Matching: Basic features

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Additional Material

• Optional (Abaqus-related) workshops

• Workshop 16 Creating an Integrated Abaqus Workflow
• Workshop 17 DOE and RBF Approximation for Baseline Design
• Workshop 18 Reliability of the Baseline Design
• Workshop 19 Reliability-Based Optimization

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 Introduction
Lecture 1

L1.2

Overview

• Workflow Automation
• Isight solution components
• Engineering Problem formulation
• Performance and Quality Improvement
• Automated Design Strategies
• Results interpretation
• SIMULIA Execution Engine (SEE)
• Training Scope
• Demo

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 Isight Overview
Lecture 2

L2.2

Overview

• Design process
• Design Gateway and Model Assembly
• Runtime Gateway and Model Execution
• Workshop 1

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 Design of Experiments
Lecture 3

L3.2

Overview

• Design of Experiments Overview

• Techniques
• Factors, Levels and Responses
• Factor Configuration
• Postprocessing
• Summary

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 Optimization Methods
Lecture 4

L4.2

Overview

• Optimization Definition
• Performance Criterion
• Constraints & Penalties
• Numeric Techniques
• Exploratory Optimization Techniques
• Expert System Optimization Techniques
• Exploration Component
• Multi objective Optimization
• Engineering Data Mining
• Troubleshooting
• Appendix

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 Monte Carlo Simulation
Lecture 5

L5.2

Overview

• Monte Carlo Simulation Overview

• Key Components
• Terminology
• Basic Approach
• Sampling Techniques
• Probability Table

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 Approximations
Lecture 6

L6.2

Overview

• Introduction and Overview

• Response Surface Models (RSM)
• Orthogonal polynomial model
• Kriging Model
• Radial Basis Functions (RBF)
• Approximation Wizard
• Workshop

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 Building Workflows
Lecture 7

L7.2

Overview

• Model Assembly Techniques

• Data Flow vs. Process Flow
• Publishing to Library
• Workshop

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The Calculator and MATLAB Components
Lecture 8

L8.2

Overview

• Calculator Component
• Calculator menu layout
• Creating a new parameter
• Creating a calculation
• Parameters: Modes, Types and Structures
• MATLAB Component (optional)
• Mapping
• Command
• Editing tools
• Running MATLAB component

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 Simcode Component
Lecture 9

L9.2

Overview

• Simcode component
• Specifying the command
• Defining how input and output data is created/captured
• Data Exchange component
• File wizards
• Menu layout
• Read vs. write
• Template files
• Parameter modes, types and structures
• Op column
• Data Swipes
• OS Command component
• Basic and Advanced options
• Required Files

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 Parameter Management
Lecture 10

L10.2

Overview

• Parameters and Units

• Parameters Tab
• Parameter Mapping
• File Parameters

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File Handling in Isight and Advanced Parsing
Lecture 11

L11.2

Overview

• Introduction
• Files handling
• Parsing
• File Handling
• File Parameters
• Component Execution with File Parameters
• Input File Parameters
• Output File Parameters
• Advanced Parsing
• Arrays
• Arrays in the Data Exchanger
• Workshop Problem

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 Loops and Publishing
Lecture 12

L12.2

Overview

• Looping
• Loop Component
• For Loop
• For Each Loop
• For Array Loop
• While Loop
• Do Until Loop
• Limitations
• Publishing
• Publishing
• Searching

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 Data Matching
Lecture 13

L13.2

Overview

• Introduction
• The Data Matching Component
• Test Data
• Simulation Data
• Data Sources
• Parsing Text Files
• Using Array Parameters
• Data Interpolation and Data Bounds
• Measures of Data Comparison

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