PRESS RELEASE – On the August 22, LG Innotek (CEO Moon, Hyuksoo) introduced that it’s going to associate with Ansys, the world’s high engineering simulation firm, to increase the appliance of ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to all its processes.
‘Digital Twin’ is a expertise that replicates objects in a digital house to foretell the outcomes of doable real-life conditions via pc simulations. It’s heralded as a expertise able to fixing numerous industrial and social issues. Particularly, it’s being quickly deployed within the manufacturing trade as it may possibly cut back product growth time and prices.
Ansys is thought to own world-leading expertise and deployment expertise within the discipline of simulation utilizing 3D modeling, Synthetic Intelligence (AI), and Machine Studying (ML). By collaborating with Ansys, LG Innotek will be capable to leverage its newest ‘Digital Twin’ options and simulation software program to construct a state-of-the-art ‘Digital Twin’ surroundings.
In collaboration with Ansys, LG Innotek carried out a trial software of its ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to some growth and manufacturing processes and has achieved tangible outcomes. Sooner or later, the corporate plans to increase the appliance of ‘Digital Twin’ to the event and manufacturing processes of its whole product vary, together with autonomous driving parts reminiscent of car connectivity and sensing gadgets.
Preliminary verification of designs utilizing digital simulation, lowering growth time by 99%
LG Innotek is reaping the advantages of its ‘Digital Twin’ in R&D. After verifying designs in a digital surroundings, the corporate makes use of the information to reduce the variety of assessments that should be carried out and the time it takes to conduct them.
It utilized ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to the event of package deal substrate (PS) merchandise for semiconductors, managing to scale back the event time by 99%.
Substrates require the minimization of ‘Warpage’ as a result of warmth and strain to which they’re uncovered throughout manufacturing. That is achieved via a simulation course of that optimizes the mix of the circuit design construction and supplies composition ratio. Utilizing digital simulation via 3D modeling, LG Innotek has diminished the time required to foretell the diploma of ‘Warpage’ of a single substrate from 11 days to three.6 hours.
Growing deployment of ‘Digital Twin’ to FC-BGA and digital part manufacturing processes, maximizing manufacturing competitiveness
LG Innotek has expanded the appliance of ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to not solely product growth but additionally the FC-BGA (Flip-Chip Ball-Grid Array) manufacturing course of. Utilizing this expertise, the corporate has succeeded in halving the ramp-up interval (enhance in manufacturing capability by enhancing yield within the early phases of mass manufacturing) by establishing optimum situations for the FC-BGA manufacturing tools.
Prior to now, the corporate needed to conduct a whole lot of assessments to establish the optimum FC-BGA course of situations, which relied closely on money and time. Utilizing 3D modeling, it has replicated the FC-BGA manufacturing course of in a digital house.
Working the method in a digital house permits the pc to visualise and establish issues that might happen with numerous course of tools. This makes it doable to meticulously optimize situations, such because the stream of liquids, warmth, and air that can not be measured inside such tools.
As well as, LG Innotek has managed to extend productiveness by actively utilizing ‘Digital Twin’ within the manufacturing strategy of digital car parts. Since digital car parts have an extended product lifespan and are extremely weak to the climate, guaranteeing high quality and reliability is essential.
LG Innotek utilized ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to the soldering course of, which is a key course of for guaranteeing the reliability of digital car parts. The soldering course of was simulated in a digital house to foretell the time it takes for the solder to crack. By optimizing course of situations reminiscent of the quantity of solder utilized and nozzle design to delay cracking as a lot as doable, the corporate plans to extend productiveness by 40% in comparison with the earlier course of.
“LG Innotek to change into a ‘meta-manufacturing’ firm by advancing Digital Twin expertise”
By its partnership with Ansys, LG Innotek plans to quickly increase the usage of ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to all product strains and processes, together with new progress companies reminiscent of car communication modules and LiDAR (mild detection and ranging) gadgets.
Sooner or later, the corporate plans to increase the usage of ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to clients and companions throughout your complete worth chain, from growth to manufacturing. Because of this, companions and clients will be capable to collaborate on product design and simulate the effectivity of manufacturing processes on the digital ‘Digital Twin’ platform constructed by LG Innotek.
The entire information generated within the digital house might be collected in actual time and used to enhance product design and buyer processes. All information from LG Innotek, its companions, and clients might be organically linked and shared in actual time, enabling systematic high quality management and environment friendly growth.
Moreover, AI might be utilized to the digital design and high quality course of verification to extend simulation velocity and accuracy. AI will study from the information collected via simulation to derive optimum options and help decision-making by engineers. LG Innotek believes the productiveness beneficial properties might be multiplied by combining the strengths of virtualization and AI expertise.
LG Innotek Chief Know-how Officer S.David Roh mentioned, “The longer term we envision at LG Innotek is meta-manufacturing, the place simulation outcomes from a digital house are linked to bodily manufacturing services and routinely result in precise manufacturing.” He added, “To this finish, we are going to quickly apply superior ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to your complete worth chain, together with R&D, manufacturing, and high quality management, to create differentiated buyer worth.”
