Romax Designer v2023.1 Features
Extremely fast solution times allow many more concepts or detailed designs compared to traditional procedures.

In one package, RomaxDESIGNER offers:
Virtual product development tools
Gearbox concept design
Component sizing & selection

System deflections
Durability
Dynamics
NVH (Noise, Vibration, Harshness)
Efficiency

Design automation and optimisation
Sensitivity analysis
Optimisation processes
Efficiency predictions
Robust design tools
Design templates

Integration into the design process
Interfaces to CAD and CAE tools
Open data exchange with HTML and XML formats
Customisation and bespoke module development

System modelling capabilities
Build custom bearings or select from comprehensive OEM catalogues
Define custom connections between parts: in all 6 degrees of freedom

Integrate any type of gear
Define clutches, belts, chains, torque convertors, synchronisers and variable coupling ratios
Work with Finite Element components and condense using Romax FE Solver
Supports parallel, perpendicular and planetary systems
Model non-90 degree shaft arrangements
Define parameters for nearly all system attributes and connections

Component analysis capabilities
Complete component analysis
Calculate forces, stresses displacements and misalignment
Design and optimise gear macro- and micro-geometry
Customise bearings and other materials
Bearing pre-load tool for pre-load investigation

Founded over 25 years ago by world-renowned leading bearing expert Dr. Peter Poon, Romax Technology offers engineering consultancy services as well as a software simulation suite for the design, analysis and optimisation of gearbox, bearings and driveline systems. RomaxDesigner sits at the heart of the software product suite, and enables complete system simulation from a concept to a detailed development stage. With analysis and optimisation capabilities for durability, efficiency and NVH, RomaxDesigner aims to provide a single solution to a multitude of industry problems.

Because of the whole-system approach, all component interactions are taken into account so that all correct misalignments are calculated and their effect accounted for. The complex impact that components such as shafts and bearings have on the whole system are included in the model with non-linear, load-dependent stiffnesses. This analysis provides reliable and accurate results, which can be used either to improve existing designs or to create new designs to high quality specifications from the start.

For automotive customers wishing to optimise their system’s efficiency and NVH without compromising on durability, RomaxDesigner’s whole system analysis can help. The software’s advanced capabilities for efficiency analysis allow designers and manufacturers to ensure their gearboxes will satisfy current stringent emissions rules. Romax software is also being used by research and development teams (both within Romax technology and at various research institutes) in the development of electric and hybrid vehicle technology. Aside from efficiency issues, RomaxDesigner’s functionality in gear whine and gear rattle provides integrated analysis for noise and vibration issues. Reports for durability, including bearing ellipse truncation, gear bending and contact safety factors, and shaft fatigue, are reported throughout the design process, alongside other analyses.

Wind industry customers can take advantage of RomaxDesigner’s sibling product, optimised for generation and analysis of wind models: RomaxWind. Incorporating all of the relevant features of RomaxDesigner, but also allowing for wind turbine load data analysis and output of reports for GL certification, RomaxWind provides a complete system simulation solution for durability, reliability and performance issues.

With its slogan of Right First Time^TM, Romax software aims to enable designers to create a system optimised for the customer’s specific targets from the beginning, as well as troubleshooting existing designs facing issues with durability, efficiency or NVH. But as well as this, because of the way in which detail is built up step-by-step, with each stage allowing for as much analysis as possible to be carried out with the minimum required detail, Romax ensures you have the right model at the right time – there is no need to add unnecessary detail for a basic level analysis, but when you are ready to further define your components, the analyses available also get more detailed.