Finding a contract FEA source
Finding a contract FEA source
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I work for a small medical device company and we are about to look for a outside FEA source for some dynamic and static analysis.
Anybody know how to find such a thing?
Have any of you worked with people like this? Any tips?
I used to do a lot of FEA in the past, would a outside source allow me to sit down with them and do the analysis?
We are just south of Boston so I assume this service should be readily available. A google searched turned up nothing.
-Chris
Anybody know how to find such a thing?
Have any of you worked with people like this? Any tips?
I used to do a lot of FEA in the past, would a outside source allow me to sit down with them and do the analysis?
We are just south of Boston so I assume this service should be readily available. A google searched turned up nothing.
-Chris





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Barry1961
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Garland E. Borowski, PE
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ANSYS East
6 Blackstone Valley Place,
Suite 402, 2nd Floor
Lincoln, Rhode Island 02865
phone: 401.333.2800
fax: 401.333.2790
They're "Wicked Smaht"
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If a company is going to be doing a lot of analysis, I generally recommend that they purchase the software and hire a consultant to help them "come up to speed" on emerging work, assuming they choose a package with which I am familiar.
I would say that having an FEA company within a few hours of you should be appealing. I'm sure ANSYS has a team of engineers that would help you learn what you need to do, and it would be part of their maintenance agreement, so you wouldn't end up paying for an additional consultant.
Of course, if you are only going to do this a couple of times a year for a short duration, the expense of the FEA packages and maintenace agreements aren't worth it...
Garland E. Borowski, PE
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I would like to be present when the analysis is done simply because I am a control freak. I really don't like having to hand this off to someone else but it is the only option, other than some pirate software I have.
Didn't even think of contacting vendors to find one of there customers in our area.
I'm going to give Algor and Ansys a call.
Anybody have an idea of what this type of service should cost?
-Chris
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If you're such a control freak (your words) and have done a sufficient amount of this in the past, have you thought about trying to get a fully functioning demo, say 90 days and doing it yourself?
Do you have a CAD model? If so, what format and how accurate do you think it is? The bigger problems that I run into have nothing to do with the model and analysis...it generally has to do with the inputs.
The least you can expect is probably $3000.
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Kenneth J Hueston, PEng
Principal
Sturni-Hueston Engineering Inc
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
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