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Linked Intelligent Master Model (LIMM)

LIMM Introduction

LIMM is a set of processes and technologies that link key product parameters to engineering models.  This provides the capabilities for engineers to quickly evaluate design alternatives by changing the value of parameters and understand the impact of the change in the context of multiple analysis and design models.LIMM Overview

LIMM Consulting Practice Overview

The LIMM practice is a methodology to identify and map key product parameters to specific engineering models.  This information is used to package existing models for reuse in design studies. LIMM related development and consulting activities are organized by Rendell Hughes, Manager, Product Data Technology Practice.

LIMM Technology Overview

The LIMM technologies enable rapid web based deployment of capabilities to modify parameters, update models, execute simulations, review simulation results and evaluate the results based on engineering rules and design targets.

LIMM Users

LIMM is used by product managers, engineering managers, product engineers, product designers, manufacturing engineers, and detail designers.

LIMM Benefits

  • Reduce time to market 
  • Leverage existing investments by reusing existing technologies and models 
  • Leverage experience by enabling less experienced engineers to achieve the same or better results than the experts

LIMM Features

  • Automatic propagation of parameter changes
  • Automatic updating and processing of models
  • Automatic results presentation
  • Architecture that enables connection across platforms and environments
  • Expert engineering rules captured in models and parameter constraints

LIMM Customer Success Example

"We have a relatively small R&D team with the analysis skills necessary to support product development.  Our R&D team supports all product lines and allocating resources across many product lines has always been a challenge.  Historically if a product manager needed to run an analysis or re-run an analysis, the project would wait in queue while our experts were performing analysis on other product lines.  This caused our product managers to make a decision about progressing without the analysis and risk problems in production or delay product development due to the unavailability of our analysis experts.  Since LIMM was implemented, our standard operating procedure is to run each analysis that is affected by a change before proceeding.  We are able to do this and still reduce overall time to market (concept to first customer ship) by more than 15%.  In addition, our experts are no longer required for day-to-day analysis task; they now spend their time developing analysis techniques for problems we have not yet been able to address with simulation."

CFD and Thermal Analysis R&D Manager
$1.5B Electromechanical Company