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When your machine doesn’t perform as expected

Find the cause before the next prototype.

Whether you’re developing a new machine, dealing with unexpected performance, or investigating a recurring field failure, Femto Engineering helps you understand what is happening and why.

We help you to identify root causes, validate design decisions and improve machine performance, before you commit to another prototype, extended testing or costly redesign using FEA, CFD and system simulation.

Trusted by our customers for more than 30 years

Where machinery engineering gets difficult

Whether you’re developing a new machine, responding to a customer requirement or dealing with an unexpected failure, the engineering challenge can take different forms.

  • The prototype doesn’t meet its targets: Your machine is missing its accuracy, vibration, temperature or throughput targets. You need to understand the root cause before investing in another prototype or design iteration.
  • The engineering challenge is beyond your internal expertise: A new customer specification, machine platform or technical requirement calls for advanced FEA, CFD or multiphysics analysis that your team does not have the capacity or specialist experience to handle internally.
  • A machine is failing in the field: Recurring failures, unexpected behaviour or warranty issues require more than troubleshooting by trial and error. Simulation can help identify the physical root cause and evaluate possible design solutions.

Engineer mission comes down to: understand what is happening, find the cause and make the right engineering decision before the problem becomes more expensive.

Modern machinery is becoming harder to engineer

Today’s high-tech machines must be faster, more precise, energy-efficient and reliable, while increasing complexity and shorter development cycles make physical testing more costly.

This drives a shift towards first-time-right engineering: using simulation earlier to evaluate concepts, identify risks and validate performance before hardware is committed. Simulation can help to:

  • Increase machine speed and throughput without compromising accuracy, stability or dynamic performance.
    Precision & throughput: Increase machine speed and throughput without compromising accuracy, stability or dynamic performance.
How Femto supports high-tech machinery projects

FEA for machinery

Analyse how your machine behaves under load, vibration and temperature.

Applications:

  • Structural analysis
  • Structural dynamics
  • High-speed dynamics
  • Modal & harmonic analysis
  • Dynamic stiffness
  • Vibration
  • Thermal deformation
  • Fatigue
  • Optimisation
  • Design validation

Software: Simcenter Femap, Simcenter 3D, Altair HyperWorks


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CFD for machinery

Understand and optimise airflow, cooling, heat transfer and fluid behaviour before physical testing.

Applications:

  • Cooling
  • Airflow, fluid
  • Vacuum
  • Pressure drop
  • Heat transfer
  • Electronics cooling
  • Flow-induced vibration
  • Cleanability
  • Energy efficiency

Software: Simcenter STAR-CCM+


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System Simulation - 1D

Understand the machine as a complete system. Connect mechanical, thermal, fluid and control behaviour to investigate complex interactions and predict machine performance at system level.

Applications:

  • Multiphysics simulation
  • System-level modelling
  • Reduced-order models
  • Virtual commissioning
  • Performance optimisation

Software: Simcenter Amesim, Simcenter 3D


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Certification services

Build confidence in machine compliance. Support your engineering and certification process with simulation-based evidence and technical analysis for demanding machinery requirements.

Applications:

  • Safety and risk assessment support
  • Structural verification
  • Thermal and pressure analysis
  • Technical documentation
  • Compliance evidence

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Digital twins

Turn simulation models into engineering assets. Extend simulation beyond product development with models that support commissioning, monitoring, troubleshooting and optimisation.

Applications:

  • Digital twins
  • Reduced-order models
  • Virtual commissioning
  • Predictive engineering
  • Model-based troubleshooting
  • Operational optimisation

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Why high-tech machinery companies choose Femto Engineering

Femto offers agile engineering services and shorter response times, while maintaining high technical quality. We provide support from early-stage design and optimisation to troubleshooting, validation and certification.

You get:

  • 30+ years of high-tech machinery CAE experience
  • Multidisciplinary CAE expertise: FEA, CFD, system simulation and digital engineering capabilities under one roof.
  • Fast engineering capacity: Qualified simulation engineers available within days.
  • Reusable engineering knowledge: Beyond individual projects, we can help develop simulation methods, automated workflows, models and training that your engineering team can reuse.
  • Proven track record: Trusted by leading high-tech machinery companies for complex engineering challenges.
  • As Siemens Gold Partner, we combine deep technical expertise with direct access to the latest software updates, including: Simcenter Femap, STAR-CCM+, Amesim, Simcenter 3D and the solutions from Altair.

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Case studies

Preventing thermal stress issues early in commercial deep fryer development

How Femto helped a commercial kitchen equipment manufacturer identify critical thermal stress zones early, support design optimization, and improve product reliability under real operating conditions.


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Self-balancing exoskeleton for individuals with spinal cord injuries

How do you make an exoskeleton that is strong enough? Can carry forces? And it is also not too heavy? In this robotic case study, Femto helped to optimize and validate Project March new designs.


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Battery natural convection

How does a component heat up under real operating conditions, and can CFD predict its thermal behaviour accurately? In this CFD study, Femto modelled natural convection around a Li-ion battery and compared the simulation results with experimental data, demonstrating how simulation can support thermal design and validation.


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A case study on FKM Guideline and industry-specific fatigue standards

How can you predict whether a machine structure will withstand repeated loading over its intended lifetime? Femto uses FEA-based fatigue analysis to assess fatigue damage, identify critical areas and support more reliable designs, using recognised standards such as the FKM Guideline and industry-specific fatigue standards.


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Solve the problem. Understand the cause. Improve the machine.

When a prototype fails, a machine misses its performance targets or a field failure keeps coming back, Femto helps you identify the root cause and find the right engineering solution.

From FEA and CFD to system simulation and specialist engineering support, we turn complex machine behaviour into actionable engineering decisions, helping you fix problems faster, reduce trial and error and build better-performing machines.

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At Femto Engineering we help companies achieve their innovation ambitions with engineering consultancy, software, and R&D.
We are Siemens DISW Expert Partner for Simcenter Femap, Simcenter 3D, Simcenter Amesim, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, SDC verifier, Altair HyperWorks, Altair SimSolid and Altair PhysicsAI. Get in touch and let us make CAE work for you.

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