Adhesive Bonding Design Training
3M and Ansys Train Engineers to Improve Adhesive Joint Design and Drive Sustainability
Ansys Learning Hub courses taught by 3M research scientists help engineers develop innovative designs using tapes and adhesives while eliminating material waste.
[caption id="attachment_133326" align="aligncenter"] Ansys Learning Hub courses taught by 3M research scientists help engineers develop innovative designs using tapes and adhesives while eliminating material waste.[/caption]3M (NASDAQ: MMM) and Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) have launched a material modeling training program that helps engineers improve their product development processes, accelerate the design phase, and eliminate material waste. Engineers are leveraging the program to build and analyze simulations more effectively, refine designs, and accelerate the time to market for next-generation products that incorporate tapes and adhesives as part of their design.
3M is a market-leading developer and supplier of adhesives applied widely across verticals including industrial equipment, healthcare, worker safety, and consumer goods. Throughout the adhesive development cycle, 3M scientists and engineers use Ansys solutions to ensure adhesives maintain structural integrity.
Simulation enables engineers to significantly improve sustainability while analyzing advanced polymeric materials and validates engineering decisions. Engineers often struggle to obtain accurate engineering data on tapes and adhesives to effectively run simulations—this leads to excess material waste and additional prototyping cycles that hinder sustainability efforts. To overcome this challenge, 3M and Ansys collaborated to create an industry material modeling training program that teaches engineers how to model with tapes and structural adhesives, optimize adhesive and joint design, reduce waste, and increase manufacturing efficiency. Additionally, 3M provides Ansys users with validated FE material models for tape and adhesive products.
Rebecca Miller, Vice President of Structural Adhesives, 3M Industrial Adhesives and Tapes Division, said: "Together with Ansys, 3M is creating a pioneering learning environment that will educate current and future engineering workforces on how to leverage powerful material science and digital engineering solutions to increase productivity, win market competition, and significantly improve environmental sustainability. Through this program, engineers will learn fundamental principles and processes to overcome highly complex engineering challenges."
The first phase of this program includes three industry-level learning courses for adhesive modeling and simulation, now available on Ansys Learning Hub (ALH). ALH is an Ansys-enabled learning and development program that houses digital engineering solution training and adoption resources across various sectors. These courses combine on-demand and instructor-led training delivered by 3M research scientists and engineers. The program will be open to all ALH customers. Over time, the series will expand to create a guided learning program covering several core material modeling engineering competencies and will become an accredited program embedded in the materials industry competency process.
Ansys Learning Hub is an on-demand portal providing continuous learning curriculum including 450 Ansys training courses for Ansys customers, over 1,200 self-paced workshops for hands-on practice, 400 hours of current course videos, and over 200 virtual and live training events managed annually by Ansys experts. The program also provides tools to manage learning objectives and instructor-led breakout rooms.
Shane Emswiler, Senior Vice President at Ansys, said: "Engineers can significantly reduce costly material waste and help strengthen environmental sustainability across teams by specializing in quick and robust solutions that help determine optimal adhesive and joint designs for bonding applications. Through this training program with 3M, we are empowering engineers to develop their skills, increase manufacturing productivity, reduce material waste, and accelerate time to market."
