Getting a professional Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is an essential part of any design phase. This simulation emulates real-world material properties, loading scenarios, physical constraints, and connection types between your parts and assemblies. After applying a load, the FEA will give us a ton of valuable results which all help with the part’s design.

The FEA will tell you if a part is too thin, the wrong material, attached in an inopportune way, or can be lightweighted. Most engineers and designers will put their parts through an FEA to better understand how their parts deform and react to different stress scenarios.

We’ve run FEAs across industries for thousands of different applications, and we’ve seen first-hand how valuable this tool can be. With our help, you can get your own FEA results.

Our Finite Element Analysis (FEA) services are aimed at engineering and design teams like yours. Instead of doing the FEA yourselves, you can leverage our engineering experts to perform as many FEAs as you’d like.

We have access to all of the major CAD programs on the market, as well as FEA-specific software. This allows us to create native FEA simulations for you, or run comprehensive tests on your models.

Whether you already have the 3D CAD files or you need our team to create them from scratch, it’s not a problem. With a well-made 3D model, you can generate realistic simulation results to better anticipate how your part or assembly will work in the real world.

Our FEA experts have run countless simulations during our 35+ years in business. We’re here to handle your FEA needs so your engineers can focus on other parts of your project. We’ll provide the full FEA results and report when we finish each simulation.

People run FEAs to emulate real-world situations to ensure their parts are strong enough to withstand standard operating conditions. In other words, an FEA will tell you if your bracket can support an engine or if it will fail. An FEA also generates a “factor of safety”, which basically estimates your margin of safety for each part.

With a professional FEA, you can change your design to optimize its performance before manufacturing even starts. Going back to the bracket example, you might find that 12 gauge stainless steel is too flimsy, but moving to 1/8” stock material gives you the safety margin that you need.

By finding this shortcoming during the design phase instead of the implementation phase, you can save a ton of time and money.

A lot of outsourced engineering teams offer FEA services, but they don’t have the experience, computing power, or engineering background to provide CAD Perfect® results. With our simulations, you can rest assured that the results are more accurate. We’re here to make sure your designs are perfect before fabrication starts.

When you get a finite element analysis from one of our experts at CAD/CAM Services, you’ll spot some major benefits:

• Faster turnaround times. With nearly 100 designers working on staggered shifts, we are up and running 24/7. This allows us to offer much faster turnaround times.
• Ability to handle more complicated simulations. It doesn’t matter how large and intricate your parts or assembly is, our experts can easily generate FEA results.
• Better accuracy with each simulation. With our advanced software and experience, we can offer better accuracy than the “other guys”.
• Save time and money during manufacturing. Our FEA results will help you tweak your design to optimize every part, saving time and money during the fabrication process.
• Prices you can’t beat. We refuse to overcharge our clients, so you’ll notice lower prices across the board.

An FEA is run to get insight into a specific part or assembly, so our FEA services start with an introductory conversation about your parts or assemblies. During a quick chat, you can let us know what the part is, what the loading environment is, and some other essential information. Once we agree on the scope and timeline, our engineers will get to work.

We have a lot of powerful computers that allow us to run multiple complex FEAs at the same time. Other companies might have you wait in a queue until their computer is ready for your FEA, but we run multiple simulations at the same time.

Every FEA goes through a quality assurance process in which another engineer will review the setup and results of the simulation to make sure everything is perfect. It’s part of why we can offer CAD Perfect® results in the first place.

All of the information surrounding your FEA will be compiled and sent to you digitally. We use a DoD-trusted filesharing service that encrypts all of your files and allows you to easily share FEA reports and simulations with your staff and coworkers.

If anything seems off, just let us know. We can make adjustments and rerun FEAs with no trouble at all.

• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• 3D CAD Modeling
• Reverse Engineering
• 2D CAD Drafting, Conversions, and Sketching
• Additional Engineering Simulation
• And Much More (Including Custom Services)

FEA is just one of our the simulations that we offer at CAD/CAM Services. FEAs deal with static objects going through an assortment of loads and forces, which helps with a lot of common engineering designs, but we also offer:

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Services
• Discrete Element Method (DEM) Simulations
• Testing Simulated Products
• Fiber-Based Material Simulations
• Geometric Optimization and Design Iteration
• Aero and Hydrodynamics Analysis

In addition, our engineers can do all of the model adjustments necessary to pass an FEA with appropriate factors of safety. This takes yet another task off of your engineers’ plates.

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With our team in your corner, you can gain more confidence with each of your designs. We’ll make sure your parts are strong enough and are using the right materials to optimize your performance without spending too much time on manufacturing. In addition, our outsourced FEA services are guaranteed to save you money if we find and correct an issue before manufacturing begins. Reach out to our engineering experts today to get started.