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nCode provides world-class products and services that streamline the durability engineering process – and help our clients deliver quality products while minimizing warranty costs and enhancing customer retention.
See what some of our customers who have gained significant benefits from using nCode's products and services have to say:
BOA Optimizes Exhaust Flex-Joints to Market Faster and Reduces Design Risk with nCode GlyphWorks
BOA specializes in the engineering and production of flex-joints for exhaust emission systems that decouple the engine motion from the exhaust structure. Exhaust flex-joints need to be custom engineered for each application in order to balance their static offset and dynamic motion, and ensure they meet fatigue life requirements for any automotive, commercial vehicle and off-road application. BOA has streamlined its engineering process by implementing nCode GlyphWorks...
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Bombardier Achieves 8 Times Faster Validation of Wagon Ride and Safety with nCode GlyphWorks
Bombardier Transportation is one of the world’s leading companies in the rail equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. The company’s manufacturing operation in Derby builds passenger rail vehicles for the UK market. The company’s test facility in Derby provides independent testing services to rail vehicle owners and operators in the UK, Europe and worldwide. European freight wagons require compliance to a number of rail vehicle ride and safety standards such as the European Standard BS EN 14363. In the past, it took about 160 hours to analyze test data to verify compliance with this safety standard...
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Cummins Helps Ensure Generator Set Reliability with nCode GlyphWorks
Cummins Power Generation is a world leader in the design and manufacture of diesel engine generator sets, spark-ignited natural gas and propane engine generators and lean-burn gas engine operators. nCode GlyphWorks was selected because of its wide range of data processing capabilities including specialized options such as...
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Lockheed Martin Durability Testing and Monitoring Structural Performance with nCode
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’ core capabilities are in the design, production, and sustainment of advanced military aircraft and related technologies.Since early 2006, Lockheed Martin has utilized nCode software for the monitoring, collection, analysis and management of data for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter full-scale test articles. nCode Automation software is used to analyze and manage data from two distinct fullscale test scenarios: “static” tests that apply worst case loading conditions and “durability” tests that repeat the loading of thousands of load steps to replicate several lifetimes of the aircraft in service.
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Turbomeca (Safran) designs, builds, markets and supports the most comprehensive range of low to- medium-power gas turbines for helicopters. Extensive physical testing is required for the development of new engines, development of derivative engines and qualification of engines for new applications. In the past it took Turbomeca about two months...
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Valeo Delivers Reliability and Performance at Right Cost with nCode GlyphWorks
Valeo is one of Europe’s largest car parts suppliers, providing components for nearly all global car manufacturers. Valeo worked with HBM-nCode to implement this approach in nCode GlyphWorks test data analysis software and uses this software to quickly generate synthesized test signals to drive fatigue test systems. The result is that the component is designed to meet the specific requirements of the vehicle, resulting in a reduction both in manufacturing and warranty costs...
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Aerospace
AgustaWestland
“Using GlyphWorks Accelerated Testing has enabled us to directly compare the fatigue damage and shock content of different vibration tests in a quantitative fashion. Furthermore, we can use it to clearly determine the safety margins between sign-off certification and installation on the production helicopter”
Trevor Walton, Principal Dynamicist - AgustaWestland
"Before we had Accelerated Testing we’d spend £100k’s a year on needless retesting equipment. We can now directly compare the severity of one test spec with another. I thought there would be reservations about test tailoring but after 3 months all my internal customers are adopting it. The tests are faster, cheaper and the safetymargin is increased."
Trevor Walton, Principal Dynamicist - AgustaWestland
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Lockheed Martin
“nCode’s lab is a unique facility for materials characterization because the nCode team offers more than just testing; they help understand what data is actually needed, specify the tests, prepare samples and interpret the results. I feel confident that material characterization data from the nCode lab can be used throughout the design process.”
Chief Engineer - Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
“We are seeing real productivity benefits in the speed with which engineers can find the data they need. nCode Automation is saving us time and improving our ability to share data with our project partners.”
Bob Simmons, JSF Structural Test IPT Leader - Lockheed Martin
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U.S. Forest Service
"nCode Automation is well-suited to what we were looking for. It was easy to set-up and get going, and has made our work so much easier. For the last few months we’ve been processing the airframe data just as we hoped.”
Aviation Management Specialist - U.S. Forest Service
“GlyphWorks is a very powerful visual analytical tool for test engineers, yet extremely user-friendly. You can learn to use the system in hours and go from being a novice to a professional in just days. I wonder how we were ever able to perform our tasks without GlyphWorks."
Manager, ERC - U.S. Forest Service
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Turbomeca
The combination of security, data management and analysis on a central server available in nCode Automation was particularly appealing to Turbomeca. nCode Automation has the ability to automatically process thousands of records from multiple data acquisition units with hundreds of measurement channels. It also offers greater security and traceability for data and analysis. "All these reasons led us to choose nCode Automation software”
Jean-Claude Moussion, scientific IT manager from Technical Direction - Turbomeca
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Automotive
ArvinMeritor
“GlyphWorks has really been a time saver in our department. What used to take days can now be performed in hours. Great product.”
Principal Technician – Experimental Mechanics, Commercial Vehicle Systems
Chrysler Group LLC
“We have seen real time savings in performing random vibration tests by using GlyphWorks Accelerated Testing and will now look forward to promoting the method both internally and in our supplier base.”
Senior Specialist, Stress Lab & Durability - Chrysler Group LLC
GKN AutoStructures
“Fatigue editing was completed in a couple of hours – it used to take a couple of days! GlyphWorks did everything it promised.”
Senior Test Engineer - GKN AutoStructures Limited
“We don't use nCode heavily - it mainly gets used for fatigue analysis on one side and data analysis on the other… it's a fantastic tool, and I'm not sure where we'd be without it for some things!”
CAE Project Leader, GKN AutoStructures Limited
General Motors
“Fatigue analysis is a vital part of our design process at GM...nCode DesignLife brings proven technology and process improvements to enable durability assessment before physical prototypes are made.”
Dr. A.K. Khosrovaneh, Structural Durability Technology Manager - General Motors
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Ford Motor Company
Over 100 registered users at Ford now have the ability to search, share, retrieve, and process archived data from over 1.5 terabytes of data from 800 vehicle-related sets of road load data and a total of 2,800 projects using nCode Automation.
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Mahindra & Mahindra
“Increasing channel counts, higher sampling rates, and tracing vast amounts of data as they move between different departments and partner companies are just some of the factors driving laboratories in the aerospace industry to consider new approaches to structural test data processing and management. After evaluation, we have chosen nCode as our supplier for these critical functions.”
Principal Engineer for Structural Test - Mahindra & Mahindra
“Analysis is the simplest task when using GlyphWorks and you begin to enjoy performing complex tasks. The ability to have all design and test data in one single environment makes GlyphWorks a unique and valuable tool."
Manager Reliability Engineering - Mahindra & Mahindra
PSA Peugeot Citroën
“Time at Level flows will help us to save the data analysis time by 90% by using Glyphwork software."
Arjun Phadatare - PSA Peugeot Citroën
Sachs Automotive
“nCode’s software provides PSA Peugeot Citroën with an easy-to-use, standard solution powerful enough to process and manage over 800 gigabytes of data.”
Manager, Customer Usage Synthesis Department -Sachs Automotive
Tata Motors Pune
“I have used other data processing tools for over 10 years but the problem is that they are not intuitive and they do not easily allow batching multiple files or steps. I have a data set coming in tomorrow that would have previously taken 2 weeks to analyze (168) files. It will take me about 8 minutes now. I am thoroughly impressed with the capabilities and ease of use [of nCode GlyphWorks].”
Senior NVH Development Engineer - Tata Motors Pune
Tower International
“nCode DesignLife provides reliable fatigue life prediction to aid in the development of structural products. It has helped us to minimize the development time and cost associated with building prototypes and has also enabled us to evaluate multiple design concepts in a short period of time. We feel DesignLife is a user-friendly and flexible CAE fatigue and durability software.”
CAE Engineer - Tower Automotive
See how nCode DesignLife is used for weight and cost reduction of chassis structures
Van-Rob
".. engineers are using nCode DesignLife, for instance, to analyze hood slams. After gathering data from three slam velocities, the engineers can run the stress time history through nCode DesignLife to determine the number of cycles required to induce cracking. With this process, nCode DesignLife saves both cost and time in the testing."
CAE Supervisor - Van-Rob
Valeo
“HBM-nCode is unique in the amount of testing knowledge possessed by its people, including both its developers and its technical support staff. We have worked closely with nCode to implement the latest methods for generating a damage equivalent synthesized power spectrum density in its GlyphWorks test data analysis software.”
Group Reliability Director - Valeo
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Wind Energy
Hansen Transmissions
“We selected DesignLife because it combines an intuitive interface, the analysis functionality we needed for rotating machinery, as well as the ability to use complex load cases. nCode engineers worked with us during the evaluation process, ensuring that the DesignLife solution meets our needs.”
Dr. W. Meeusen, Head of Product Technology - Hansen Transmissions
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Southwest Windpower
"We were able to quickly and accurately determine the hot spots on our nacelle castings using FE-based software by nCode. We were able to directly import our wind turbine aeroelastic simulation load time series into nCode DesignLife, create a duty cycle to extrapolate our loads to approximate 20 years of operation, and determine the damage associated with 20 years of operation. Before purchasing nCode DesignLife, we were only able to evaluate damage for components consisting of simple geometry using spreadsheets. Now we can quickly assess complex geometry associated with blades and castings.”
Josh Walton, P.E. Mechanical Engineer - Southwest Windpower
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Other
Case New Holland
“We have seen real time savings in performing random vibration tests by using GlyphWorks Accelerated Testing and will now look forward to promoting the method both internally and in our supplier base.”
Senior Specialist, Stress Lab & Durability - CNH Case New Holland
Cummins Power Generation
“The software is built in a very professional and user friendly way and the thought process behind it is amazing. Great work there!”
Senior Mechanical Engineer, Applied Technology - Cummins Power Generation
Read how Cummins Helps Ensure Generator Set Reliability with nCode GlyphWorks Test Data Analysis Software
Freudenberg-NOK
“The GlyphWorks ride quality process has been found to be fast and easy to use with results that are easily understood.”
Burr Ridge, Development Center - Freudenberg-NOK
Netshape Engineering Services
“We’re pleased with the results of fatigue studies conducted using DesignLife – the results correlate well with physical test data.”
Engineering Manager - Netshape Engineering Services
