PITTSBURGH, Sept. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ANSYS
(NASDAQ: ANSS) and Modelon have entered an agreement to
revolutionize product development – reducing late-stage integration
failures, decreasing product development costs and speeding time to
market. Combining Modelon's industry-leading systems behavioral
modeling tools and solutions, based upon the open standard
Modelica® modeling language with ANSYS' system
simulation platform and breadth in 3-D multiphysics and embedded
software enables users to explore product designs from the complete
system all the way down through detailed designs. This
multidisciplinary, integrated approach will help companies arrive
at better designs earlier, reduce their reliance on costly physical
prototyping and virtually eliminate system integration
failures.
Model-based design has traditionally focused on a single systems
modeling language. But now ANSYS has expanded that definition to
include electronics, mechanical and embedded software engineering.
ANSYS will incorporate Modelica, a broadly accepted and open
standard for the behavioral modeling of mechanical, thermal and
thermofluid systems, with ANSYS' existing IEEE-backed VHDL-AMS
modeling technology for electrical systems and its
SCADE™ technology for embedded software.
"This agreement with Modelon breaks down the remaining barriers
to full virtual system prototyping," said Walid Abu-Hadba, chief product officer at ANSYS.
"ANSYS users will be able to fully explore how their product will
behave – not at the component level, but as a complete system. This
quantum leap forward will pay amazing dividends for customers in
the future by enabling them to create more innovative products
faster than ever."
Enabling this engineering breakthrough is an agreement with
Modelon, giving ANSYS customers access to Modelon's Modelica
compiler and its best-in-class Modelica solutions within the
ANSYS® Simplorer™ product line. The Modelica
language and Modelica-based libraries are used across a range of
industries for designing and optimizing the performance of
multi-domain systems for such applications as active safety, engine
control, thermal management, power transfer and environment
control. Additionally, ANSYS customers will gain access to
Modelon's leading Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) technology.
FMI is used by a range of industrial companies to exchange
simulation models among their suppliers and assemble them into
virtual system prototypes that can be tested before physical
prototypes are available.
In addition to offering a multi-language system simulation
environment, ANSYS Simplorer can also replace behavioral models
often used during concept design with detailed 3-D multiphysics
results to provide a macro view of system performance. Engineering
teams can virtually verify and optimize their product designs at
all stages of systems engineering – from conceptual and system
design to detailed engineering and complete system
verification.
"The engineering world is standardizing on Modelica for system
modeling and analysis in automotive, aerospace and energy
applications," said Hubertus Tummescheit, CEO of Modelon, Inc.
"This partnership gives Simplorer users access to
application-specific model libraries, toolkits that enable FMI in
several third-party products and expertise in a variety of
industrial applications."
About Modelon
Modelon is a global expert in solutions for model-based systems
and control design. We give our customers a competitive advantage
by delivering a unified picture of subsystem interaction and
performance from early in the design cycle all the way to optimal
system operation. Our open and flexible tools and model libraries
for simulation and optimization accelerate virtual product creation
and allow our customers to focus on their core business objectives.
With an open standards based platform, we can rapidly integrate,
customize, and deploy into any CAE tool chain.
Since 2005, Modelon has been a leader in developing and
supporting the Modelica and FMI open standards and communities.
About ANSYS, Inc.
ANSYS brings clarity and insight to customers' most complex
design challenges through fast, accurate and reliable engineering
simulation. Our technology enables organizations ― no matter their
industry ― to predict with confidence that their products will
thrive in the real world. Customers trust our software to help
ensure product integrity and drive business success through
innovation. Founded in 1970, ANSYS employs nearly 2700
professionals, many of them expert in engineering fields such as
finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, electronics
and electromagnetics, embedded software, system simulation and
design optimization. Headquartered south of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., ANSYS has more than 75 strategic sales
locations throughout the world with a network of channel partners
in 40+ countries. Visit www.ansys.com for more information.
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