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Solutions for Electric Powertrain Gearboxes
Design and manufacturing of efficient gearboxes with best-in-class quality.
Ensure optimized designs that are manufactured in the right way.
e-Powertrain gearboxes come with tighter NVH, durability, and efficiency requirements, as well as greater cost constraints. Hexagon provides a solution toolset that optimizes the design and manufacturing processes, from the concept phase to parts production, ensuring development and manufacturing is at the highest quality.
Multi-attribute design and optimizations
Simulation tools dedicated to gearbox applications, from rapid layout investigations to optimization for efficiency, durability and NVH, and democratized links to CFD, acoustics and more.
System Dynamics
Structural Analysis
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Acoustic Simulation
Design durable, efficient, and quiet EV gearboxes. Rapid simulations provide engineering insights into component performance and the system-level impact of design decisions, reducing physical prototyping.
Products used
Simulating porosity effects on NVH performance
Using porosity data from a set of physical prototypes, detailed NVH simulations can be conducted to specify meaningful porosity tolerances for regular inspections during production.
CT Analysis
System Dynamics, Acoustic Simulation
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
Specify porosity tolerances in a physically meaningful way, to ensure desired NVH performance criteria are met without unnecessarily increasing waste and cost of production.
Efficient machining of gears
Substantially reduce the machining cycle time of gears through efficient machining strategies, ensuring smooth execution by building a Digital Twin that simulates the entire process. Prepare models for manufacturing, generate a toolpath NC program, then verify and optimize the toolpath along with the simulation of the machining process through the creation of a Digital Twin.
CAD for CAM
Production Machining
CNC Simulation
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Efficient machining of cast housings for gears
Achieve an accurate surface finish on mating parts for gear housings with an efficient and smooth machining process. repare models for manufacturing, generate a toolpath NC program, then verify and optimize the toolpath along with the simulation of the machining process through the creation of a Digital Twin.
CAD for CAM
Production Machining
CNC Simulation
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High-accuracy measurement for precision gears
With sub-micron precision and high scanning performance, Hexagon’s ultra-accurate CMM range efficiently combines classical gear evaluation with data capture for noise simulation. Utilization of ultra-high accuracy CMMs, combined with high sensor flexibility, allows you to validate and verify critical gear characteristics, as well as inform your understanding of the acoustic performance of drivetrain systems.
Dimensional Analysis & Automated Inspection
Process Control and Analytics
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Dimensional inspection of eDrive housings
Comprehensive inspection of electric gearbox housings, including tight tolerance characteristics and hard-to-access features [e]without compromising on cycle times. Hexagon’s flexible and multi-sensor CMMs quickly capture all important features of the eDrive housing and the structure on sealing surfaces. They achieve the required accuracy without compromising on cycle times.
Dimensional Analysis
Products used
Porosity inspection of cast housings for gears
Reduce overall scrap rates by utilizing CT-based porosity inspection, to both improve and adjust the casting process before part quality deteriorates. CT scanning of castings enables you to inspect porosity, inclusions, and various complex geometries, such as undercuts, to ensure an incident-free downstream process.
CT Analysis
Process Control & Analytics
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