Trusted in industries including automotive, off road, aerospace, robotics, wind and more
Central to the virtual product development process
Design, analysis and optimisation for Durability, NVH, Efficiency, Low Weight, Packaging and Cost
Understand performance under manufacturing, assembly and operating point variations
Supports an intelligent product development process with automation, optimisation and AI
Durability is critical for any design. Components must be designed to meet their durability targets over the full duty cycle, taking into account manufacturing tolerances, assembly errors, temperature effects and more.
NVH is a key consideration in most industries, whether it’s noise in electric vehicle refinement or vibrational dynamics in aerospace applications.
Efficiency is a complex function of many speed and load dependant power loss contributions within the transmission. This is a performance target of significant interest in most industries. In transportation, for example, power losses have a direct impact on range.
Automation and Optimisation are crucial for an effective virtual development process, enabling drastically shorter development times while allowing engineers to focus on crucial engineering decisions, rather than performing repetitive manual tasks.
MASTA Key Features
- A powerful single software solution for the design, analysis and optimisation of transmissions, electric machines and electrified powertrains.
- User-friendly, intuitive, robust and accurate.
- Trusted by our prestigious customer base in industries including automotive, off road, aerospace, robotics, wind, and more.
- Tool to achieve all design targets, including Durability, NVH, Efficiency, Low Weight, Packaging and Cost
- Analyses at different levels of fidelity optimised for speed, efficiency and accuracy, including static, frequency domain dynamic and time domain dynamic analyses.
- Automation and optimisation for an effective virtual development process.
- Tolerance and robustness studies to understanding performance within the bounds of manufacturing, assembly and operating point variations.
- Fast analyses with capabilities for parametric studies, batch running and a full API for scripting via languages which engineers know.
MASTA Benefits
- Developed to be central to the virtual development process, to achieve the ever-decreasing development times required to compete in the current and future markets and the goal of zero prototypes.
- System level tool allowing detailed design and analysis of components always within the context of the full system.
- Practical throughout the design and development process, from concept design to manufacture.
- Proven to give accurate results over many years of validation by SMT and our customers.
- Results are validated extensively against standard calculations, literature, other high fidelity simulations and most importantly against real world testing, and real world design, development and troubleshooting projects.
- With its powerful capabilities MASTA enables new design and development processes which were previously not possible
“As a development tool for the drive system in our outboard motor division, we were attracted by the rapid evolution of the software and introduced MASTA in 2016. Since then, we have achieved a 60% reduction in design review work hours during model changes and have also received support for the development of our flagship outboard motor.
For issues with prototype machines, we received accurate and prompt cause analysis and countermeasure proposals.
We have achieved results that exceed our expectations with the implementation. We look forward to future software upgrades.”
Nobuo Uesaka, Chief Engineer, Honda R&D Innovative Research Excellence
