Where lightweight
meets safety

With our optimization software, we provide greater crash safety and lightweight design in the automotive sector.​

INDUVOS

Our impact

LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN

Our software is a game-changer in vehicle development, ensuring materials are utilized with maximum efficiency. Our technology allows for significant reductions in vehicle weight, thereby cutting costs and emissions, driving the industry towards a greener, more cost-effective future.

CRASH SAFETY

While reducing weight, our software ensures compliance with rigorous safety standards by examining the deformation behavior of a vehicle in crash simulations. It identifies and corrects performance deficiencies, ensuring occupant safety in the event of a collision.

MANUFACTURABILITY

Our software guarantees that the optimized vehicle structures are viable for large-scale manufacturing. By adhering to predefined production constraints, it ensures that the optimized components can be produced without the need for extensive re-evaluation by engineers.

The future of crash optimization

Our vision

We aim to be at the forefront of the automotive industry´s shift towards sustainable and innovative vehicle concepts. We envision our software becoming the benchmark tool for crash optimization within the automotive industry.

OUR OFFERS

Discover our services

Steamlining Design Excellence

Crash optimization software

We offer one-year licenses for our on-premise solution, carefully developed to fit into and improve your current workflows. This provides your team with the latest tools needed for smart and cost-effective design of crash-loaded vehicle structures.

Collaborative Innovation

PILOT PROJECT

Join us to enhance vehicle optimization. Our pilot projects come with hands-on support, showing you how to easily add our software to your existing processes and routines, ensuring a straight forward changeover with clear benefits from the start.

Empowering expertise

TRAINING

Learn to use our software with our easy-to-follow training programs. We’ll teach you everything you need to know to use our tools for your specific tasks, making sure you can put them to work effectively on your vehicle optimization projects.

Partnerships in action

Current projects

Optimizing the Battery Protection of the Audi Q8 e-tron

Finding the best cross-sections for rockers and battery protection profiles is challenging due to the wide range of requirements that must be met during impact scenarios and manufacturing. Traditionally, this design process is labour-intensive, requiring significant expertise and a bit of luck to find suitable drafts. iNDUVOS Profile was developed to tackle these demanding situations. To showcase the potential of our optimization software, we optimized the battery protection of an Audi Q8 e-tron. Our approach resulted in a mass reduction of over 9% while cutting development time from several months to just a few weeks, all while ensuring the manufacturability of the new designs.

Optimizing roll formed aluminum profiles

Dive into the future of material-efficient design, leveraging aluminum's lightweight properties for enhanced fuel efficiency, recyclability, and structural innovation. Join us in reshaping the automotive industry, accelerating development processes, and reducing material costs. Explore our collaboration with the chair for Optimization of Mechanical Structures of the University of Wuppertal and Novelis, a leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum. Discover how to design crashworthiness roll-formed profiles and stay ahead of the competition.

Inlay structure optimisation of a crash box for the low-speed crash RCAR

As part of a project at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, funded by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action together with the Research Association of Automotive Technology (FAT) and the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF), methods for topology optimization of fully scalable three-dimensional frame structures for crash loads are being explored. The goal is to use flexible geometry descriptions to automatically optimize parts of vehicles using combined profiles.

Collaborative Impact

Our supporters

Unterstützt vom Wirtschaftsministerium des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

FAQ

Your questions

Our software outperforms manual optimization by delivering faster results and superior outcomes due to its ability to simultaneously examine and compare various structural designs. This approach often results in more efficient structures that meet crash requirements with reduced weight.

If you’re interested in our offerings, we will arrange an introductory meeting to demonstrate our software and explore potential applications within your organization. If a promising use case is identified, we’re eager to conduct a pilot project to showcase the benefits of our software in your specific scenario. We provide comprehensive support during the software implementation into your processes and infrastructure. Should any uncertainties remain, we offer a short-term trial license for further testing. Once satisfied, we will customize a licensing agreement to meet your long-term needs. Additionally, we provide training sessions to familiarize your team with the full capabilities and usage of our software.

The price of our software is determined based on its individual value potential and is set upon consultation. If you require a rough cost estimate, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Standard software support is included in the licensing fees.

Our software is typically distributed through one-year licenses that must be prepaid for the corresponding period, granting the user the right to utilize the software. Each parallel vehicle/structural optimization requires a separate license. After purchase, the software can be downloaded and installed for free from our online portal.

Software support is included in the license fees. Should you encounter any issues, feel free to contact us during regular business hours via email or phone. We aim to promptly resolve any problems in collaboration with you. For special support needs, additional paid services are available. We are also in the process of developing comprehensive software documentation, which will soon be available to our clients, allowing for efficient self-resolution of minor issues.

The current version of our software allows for topology and shape optimization of crash-loaded profile structures, such as vehicle side sills. The application spectrum is continuously expanding; soon, we plan to include optimizations for flat structures. Our vision is to enable effective optimizations for all crash-relevant body components in the future.

No, our software does not directly perform simulations. It is integrated via an API with well-known simulation programs, where it collects simulation data to then conduct structural optimizations automatically. For questions regarding the compatibility of our software with different solvers, pre- and post-processors, please feel free to contact us.

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