PRESS RELEASE – On the August 22, LG Innotek (CEO Moon, Hyuksoo) introduced that it’s going to companion with Ansys, the world’s prime engineering simulation firm, to broaden the applying of ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to all its processes.
‘Digital Twin’ is a expertise that replicates objects in a digital area to foretell the outcomes of potential real-life conditions by means of laptop simulations. It’s heralded as a expertise able to fixing numerous industrial and social issues. Specifically, it’s being quickly deployed within the manufacturing business as it might probably scale back product improvement time and prices.
Ansys is thought to own world-leading expertise and deployment expertise within the area 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 performed a trial software of its ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to some improvement and manufacturing processes and has achieved tangible outcomes. Sooner or later, the corporate plans to broaden the applying of ‘Digital Twin’ to the event and manufacturing processes of its complete product vary, together with autonomous driving parts corresponding to car connectivity and sensing gadgets.
Preliminary verification of designs utilizing digital simulation, lowering improvement 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 info to reduce the variety of checks that must be performed 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’ because of the warmth and stress to which they’re uncovered throughout manufacturing. That is achieved by means of a simulation course of that optimizes the mix of the circuit design construction and supplies composition ratio. Utilizing digital simulation by means of 3D modeling, LG Innotek has decreased 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 applying of ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to not solely product improvement but in addition the FC-BGA (Flip-Chip Ball-Grid Array) manufacturing course of. Utilizing this expertise, the corporate has succeeded in halving the ramp-up interval (improve in manufacturing capability by enhancing yield within the early phases of mass manufacturing) by establishing optimum situations for the FC-BGA manufacturing gear.
Up to now, the corporate needed to conduct lots of of checks to determine 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 area.
Working the method in a digital area permits the pc to visualise and determine issues that might happen with numerous course of gear. This makes it potential to meticulously optimize situations, such because the movement of liquids, warmth, and air that can’t be measured inside such gear.
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, making certain high quality and reliability is essential.
LG Innotek utilized ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to the soldering course of, which is a key course of for making certain the reliability of digital car parts. The soldering course of was simulated in a digital area to foretell the time it takes for the solder to crack. By optimizing course of situations corresponding to the quantity of solder utilized and nozzle design to delay cracking as a lot as potential, the corporate plans to extend productiveness by 40% in comparison with the earlier course of.
“LG Innotek to develop into a ‘meta-manufacturing’ firm by advancing Digital Twin expertise”
By its partnership with Ansys, LG Innotek plans to quickly broaden the usage of ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to all product traces and processes, together with new development companies corresponding to car communication modules and LiDAR (gentle detection and ranging) gadgets.
Sooner or later, the corporate plans to broaden the usage of ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to clients and companions throughout all the worth chain, from improvement to manufacturing. Consequently, 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.
All the information generated within the digital area will probably be collected in actual time and used to enhance product design and buyer processes. All information from LG Innotek, its companions, and clients will probably be organically related and shared in actual time, enabling systematic high quality management and environment friendly improvement.
Moreover, AI will probably be utilized to the digital design and high quality course of verification to extend simulation velocity and accuracy. AI will be taught from the info collected by means of simulation to derive optimum options and assist decision-making by engineers. LG Innotek believes the productiveness positive aspects will probably 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 area are linked to bodily manufacturing services and robotically result in precise manufacturing.” He added, “To this finish, we’ll quickly apply superior ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to all the worth chain, together with R&D, manufacturing, and high quality management, to create differentiated buyer worth.”
