ANSYS® Mechanical™ Liebherr

Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH
Mobile Cranes & Crawler Cranes
Germany
www.liebherr.com
ANSYS® Mechanical™
Overview
Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH is one of the world’s leading
manufacturers of mobile cranes. Its program includes all-terrain
mobile cranes, lattice-boom cranes on wheeled and crawlertrack chassis, mobile construction-industry cranes and special
cranes for recovery work.
As a market leader in several product groups and geographical
regions, Liebherr is also a technological leader and continues to
always improve its products and processes.
Testimonial
“3-D CAD and FE are the major tools in the virtual design
process of cranes at Liebherr-Werk Ehingen. Since more
than 20 years all important components of our cranes are
systematically analyzed and optimized with FE.
ANSYS products are one of the central parts in our
software world and they help us do our work quicker and
with increased reliability and safety.”
Rainer-Michael Martsch
Head of Static Department, Liebherr
Challenge
Solution
Benefits
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Reach the highest possible optimization level
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Cranes are safe and compliant to standards
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The prototype, which is sometimes already
our final product, reaches all planed
workloads, specifications and limits
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High accuracy of simulations and end product
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To develop and market new
innovative products and
components, as well as to
increase the workloads of the
cranes by using all
technological possibilities
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Methods and processes must
be optimized in order to
decrease design and analysis
time
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To use innovative tools in the
design and analysis processes
such as the products developed
by ANSYS, Inc.
ANSYS products allowed
Liebherr to analyze complex
nonlinear behavior of parts and
cranes, like the buckling of
plates and shells
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