The democratization of engineering and simulation technologies have different perspectives. From a technological perspective, cloud interfaces, cloud-based HPC, and cloudified engineering tools enable the access to the technology. From a business perspective, unified pay-per-use models, web self-service models, and try-before-you-buy strategies make the technology affordable. Nevertheless, the lack of domain knowledge and the complex graphical interfaces of the engineering tools prevent many unexperienced end users to apply and profit from the technology.
In order to lower the knowledge barrier for unexperienced end users, clesgo is generalizing the concept of engineering applications (apps). An Engineering App is a design centric workflow that reproduces an engineering process for specific product types such as: pumps, structures, wings, etc. The Engineering App is easily employed by end users without domain knowledge nor experience with dedicated software tools. In other words, an Engineering App already models the corresponding expert knowledge for the very concrete product type within a unified web-based user interface.
When an end user employs an Engineering App, she only needs to configure it for her individual product. For instance, an Engineering App for a pump is already “parameterized”, in order to generate the suitable mesh according to the input geometry and the boundary conditions, considering the time and space discretizations, boundary layer conditions, and fluid properties, among others. In addition, the Engineering App also provides the corresponding validation criteria to assess the result based on convergence, residuals, pressure / velocity profiles, etc.
clesgo empowers manufactures with Engineering Apps as a Service, leveraging Software as a Service, Computing as a Service, Integration as a Service, and Customization as a Service. clesgo aims to streamline the access of manufacturers to such technology and know-how, by means of developing, creating, and offering Engineering Apps.