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Interview with DailyCADCAM: Why SPDM Is the Link for CAE Teams
Simulation is today a central part of product development – especially in industries like the automotive sector. But as the number of simulations grows, so does the complexity of data and processes. In an interview with the digital magazine DailyCADCAM, Dr.-Ing. Heiner Müllerschön, Managing Director of SCALE Germany, explains why simulation process and data management (SPDM) is becoming the decisive link for many companies’ modern CAE teams.
Challenge: Simulation Data in Engineering
Virtual development today generates enormous amounts of data, including simulation models, variants, solver setups, calculation runs, and result data. While PLM and PDM systems primarily manage CAD data, they often lack the context for complex simulation processes.
Heiner Müllerschön summarizes the problem as follows:
"Most companies think PLM covers simulation, but in practice, it usually doesn’t. PLM and PDM are mainly optimized for CAD and design data. Simulation has different requirements. It’s not just storing files. Simulation work has processes, workflows, solver runs, iterations, results, reports, correlations, and different specialists working on the same product. That’s why SDM exists – it’s specifically built for simulation and test data and the processes around it."
Dr.-Ing. Heiner Müllerschön, Managing Director SCALE GermanyWithout the structure that an SDM system provides, results remain hard to find and knowledge becomes isolated within projects.
What SPDM Enables for CAE Teams
Simulation process and data management (SPDM) creates a central framework for models, simulations, results and workflows. It enables traceability, reusability and efficient team collaboration – without requiring engineers to give up their familiar tools.
This is exactly where SCALE.sdm comes into play.
"SCALE.sdm is our platform for simulation and test data management. The simplest way to explain it is: it becomes the central hub for CAE engineers. You can organize, version, manage, analyze, and collaborate on simulation models and results in one connected system. It helps teams keep everything structured and traceable, so you don’t lose data and you don’t repeat work. And it’s not only about storage, it’s also about how simulation teams actually work day-to-day." Dr.-Ing. Heiner Müllerschön, Managing Director of SCALE GermanyWith SPDM, teams gain a clearly structured data space where all information is brought together centrally. This enables them to access existing results more quickly and to preserve knowledge over the long term.
Central Data Hub as a Basis for Development and AI
The centralized organization of data from testing and simulation enables not only transparency but also innovation based on data.
Only with structured data can AI-supported analyses, intelligent search functions, or automated evaluations be used efficiently. For companies with extensive simulation projects, SPDM thus becomes a decisive building block of contemporary, data-driven product development.
Benefits of SPDM / SCALE.sdm
- SPDM closes the gap – Classic PLM/PDM systems manage CAD data but reach their limits with complex simulations. SPDM links models, calculation runs, results and ensures full traceability.
- Central collaboration – With SCALE.sdm teams can organize, version, analyze and share data from simulation and testing, making processes more efficient and significantly shortening time-to-insight.
- Tool-agnostic & flexible – Engineers can continue to use their preferred solvers and workflows, while SDM integrates everything into one structured system.
- Unleashing AI potential – Structured SDM data enables advanced AI-powered search, analyses and the reuse of knowledge across projects.
The interview was conducted during the SIAT Expo 2026 in Pune, India.
The three-day event brought together over 250 technical presentations, keynotes and a supporting expo of leading industry representatives – an ideal setting to discuss the challenges of modern simulation processes.
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