Cloud-based simulation of casting

The casting industry is widely considered as a sector that exerts great influence in the development of the world economy. Because the foundry industry is predominantly an SME industry, with more than 80% of companies employing less than 250 people, the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICT), and in particular simulation tools, by SMEs contributes to increased productivity and innovation capacity in the sector. Despite the great advances in computing hardware and software, high-end computer simulation and engineering design tools (also known as computer-aided engineering (CAE)) are often hard to afford for SMEs. This is particularly true for HPC-Cloud simulation tools. Click2Cast software has been designed to routinely solve the 90% of the available casting technologies in five easy to follow steps, with a preparation time that takes just a few minutes compared to the several hours taken by other software packages. The use of Click2Cast with HPC-Cloud allows the foundries to have a greater speed and agility to develop offers for customers. This has a positive impact in the awarded contracts arising from offers made, and it is estimated as an increase of 20%. This means the % of awarded contracts would move from 12% to 15%. Considering this, the annual billing would increase 19.500 €/year.