Like many industries these days, it is vital to maintain class leading technology and deliver products to market in less time.

For Bose, one instrumental tool has been Mentor Graphics thermal analysis software, first FloTHERM and more recently FloEFD. We switched to FloEFD since it handles our more complex geometry and has the benefit of being embedded in our CAD tool (NX). While these tools provide great insight into the thermal design of products, we enter a new project with a bias to use previous designs which brings us to this article.