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The combined use of a simulation solution based on a numerical model and of remote HPC resources has allowed the development of a new design and development process of catamaran hulls.
The solution, which relies on Cloudifacturing platform, gives two kinds of advantages. Technically, more efficient and less defect-prone processes can be conceived and analyzed before their adoption. From an economic point of view, SME can afford the use of HPC resources without heavy investments.
"Thanks to the CloudiFacturing technology we can now take a look inside the VARTM process and switch our manufacturing process to a more safe, reliable and cheaper one", Gabriele Totisco, Catmarine CEO.
The experiment setup was well prepared and discussed by the experiment partners LCM and Hanning. The implementation of the solution in the CloudiFacturing Marketplace, however, was unclear and needed significant efforts during the early stages of the experiment. This partly concerned the technical solution and partly was felt in the definition and in conveying the experiment structure to the consortium.
While this has added some unplanned efforts to the experiment which then reduced the time available for the practical implementations, the cause seems quite unavoidable for wave 1 of the experiments since the development of the Marketplace happened in parallel to the experiments. This situation will, therefore, automatically improve for the experiments in wave 2.