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 increase 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 attainable real-life conditions by 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 business as it may well 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 have the ability 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 improvement and manufacturing processes and has achieved tangible outcomes. Sooner or later, the corporate plans to increase the applying of ‘Digital Twin’ to the event and manufacturing processes of its complete product vary, together with autonomous driving elements reminiscent of automobile connectivity and sensing units.
Preliminary verification of designs utilizing digital simulation, decreasing 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 information to reduce the variety of assessments that have to be carried out and the time it takes to conduct them.
It utilized ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to the event of bundle 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 by a simulation course of that optimizes the mixture of the circuit design construction and supplies composition ratio. Utilizing digital simulation by 3D modeling, LG Innotek has lowered 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 circumstances for the FC-BGA manufacturing tools.
Previously, the corporate needed to conduct a whole bunch of assessments to establish the optimum FC-BGA course of circumstances, 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 allows the pc to visualise and establish issues that would happen with numerous course of tools. This makes it attainable to meticulously optimize circumstances, such because the movement of liquids, warmth, and air that can’t be measured inside such tools.
As well as, LG Innotek has managed to extend productiveness by actively utilizing ‘Digital Twin’ within the manufacturing technique of digital automobile elements. Since digital automobile elements have an extended product lifespan and are extremely susceptible 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 automobile elements. 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 circumstances reminiscent of the quantity of solder utilized and nozzle design to delay cracking as a lot as attainable, the corporate plans to extend productiveness by 40% in comparison with the earlier course of.
“LG Innotek to turn 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 development companies reminiscent of automobile communication modules and LiDAR (gentle detection and ranging) units.
Sooner or later, the corporate plans to increase the usage of ‘Digital Twin’ expertise to prospects and companions throughout your complete worth chain, from improvement to manufacturing. In consequence, companions and prospects will have the ability 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 shall be collected in actual time and used to enhance product design and buyer processes. All information from LG Innotek, its companions, and prospects shall be organically linked and shared in actual time, enabling systematic high quality management and environment friendly improvement.
Moreover, AI shall be utilized to the digital design and high quality course of verification to extend simulation velocity and accuracy. AI will be taught from the information collected by simulation to derive optimum options and help decision-making by engineers. LG Innotek believes the productiveness positive aspects shall 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 amenities 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.”
