PITTSBURGH, Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies are
accelerating digital transformation by integrating cutting-edge
ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) technology across product lifecycle
processes through new functionalities released today in ANSYS 2020
R1. From improving product development with ANSYS Minerva to
running complex simulations with substantially streamlined
workflows with ANSYS® Fluent® to
optimizing electromagnetic design processes with ANSYS®
HFSS™, ANSYS 2020 R1 enables companies to pioneer
trailblazing innovations and create highly cost-effective
designs.
As simulation impacts virtually every product development
decision, users must address considerable scale and complexity
challenges of interoperability, data and process management,
high-performance computing (HPC) integration and traceability.
Additionally, sophisticated multiphysics simulation and
optimization assets must be widely available throughout engineering
teams and across product lifecycles. ANSYS 2020 R1 addresses this
with portfolio-wide upgrades and improvements to ANSYS Minerva
— enabling customers to connect simulation and optimization to
their larger product lifecycle processes.
ANSYS Minerva helps companies transform simulation intellectual
property into a valuable and controlled corporate asset,
capture best practices and digitally thread simulation and
optimization more broadly across the enterprise than ever before.
Minerva now incorporates advanced technologies for significantly
improving workflows and enhancing simulation process and data
management (SPDM). This includes dashboards that drive improved
decision support, dynamic 3D visualization tools for exploring
model data, a state-of-the-art system for managing change and
ensuring reliability of information.
OptiSlang — a technology now owned by ANSYS as a result of
the recent acquisition of Dynardo — now teams with Minerva's SPDM
solutions to help users reduce development time and expedite the
evaluation of affordable optimal design alternatives.
"Navigating digital transformation is about adapting to a
constantly evolving environment and using existing tools and data
in new ways. With use of simulation expected to expand in the
coming years, Minerva is important to Eaton and plays a key part in our larger,
enterprise-wide digital prototyping and additive manufacturing (AM)
initiatives," said Todd Earls, vice
president of Information Technology at Eaton. "Additionally, traceability and
management are essential for efficiency and there are many steps
necessary to design and manufacture parts using AM or other
processes. ANSYS Minerva will help make our user experience more
streamlined than it is today."
An interoperable knowledge management application engineered
with an open and vendor-neutral architecture, Minerva integrates
with engineering teams' ecosystem of simulation tools and
enterprise systems and streamlines collaboration and traceability
across teams based around the world.
"Customers across virtually every industry seek to radically
improve how they leverage simulation, optimize designs and share
data to spur innovation and create products more efficiently," said
Eric Bantegnie, vice president and general manager at ANSYS.
"Minerva's improvements help fuse simulation and optimization
processes across the enterprise, establishing simulation-based
design optimization workflows as a dynamic standardized
process for exploring and improving product performance. In
addition to Minerva, ANSYS 2020 R1 delivers numerous
state-of-the-art upgrades across our portfolio designed to inspire
innovation, slash development costs and speed products to
market."
Pioneering Major Advancements in Simulation
ANSYS 2020 R1 delivers upgraded capabilities for flagship
simulation platforms including ANSYS®
Mechanical™ and ANSYS Fluent that help customers strengthen
their digital thread to drive innovation and overcome design
complexity challenges. Additionally, this new release upgrades
ANSYS HFSS and ANSYS® Maxwell® to help
customers substantially enrich their electromagnetic design
processes.
ANSYS 2020 R1 empowers ANSYS Mechanical users to go further than
ever before with added features and enhancements to better handle
complex, highly nonlinear and massively large models. Additional
functionality streamlines workflows, including post-processing of
reinforcements and easy drag-and-drop of external models right into
ANSYS Mechanical.
Leveraging ANSYS distributed compute services (DCS) helps
engineers run Mechanical and Fluent design iterations with
increased speed, delivering new products to market faster than
ever.
"Radiate uses simulation from the very early stages of the
development process. To fully explore the entire solution space for
a given problem, we use ANSYS DCS to push our development to the
limit of what is possible," said Simon
Grob, head of simulation engineering at Radiate Engineering
& Design AG. "DCS empowers us to evaluate a variety of
different solution options and optimize designs in the shortest
possible time."
In ANSYS' fluids suite, Fluent introduces new features that make
it easy for nearly anyone — from novices to experts — to
effectively run high-quality, complex multiphase computational
fluid dynamics simulations using a simplified and streamlined
workflow that sets up simulations 25% faster. Fluent users are
additionally supported by an immersive and highly intuitive
graphical user interface, enabling them to directly interact with
models and graphical elements to help speed set up.
Fluent's new release also introduces a new algebraic interface
area density model that accounts for differences in drag and
interfacial area to accurately simulate complex multiphase
transitions between liquid and gas flows. This delivers better
simulation accuracy for designing nuclear reactors, oil and gas
pipelines and many other applications.
The electromagnetic suite introduces advances in ANSYS HFSS for
quickly and accurately modeling antenna arrays — key for enabling
5G. For high-speed electronics, HFSS delivers remarkable solving
speed for very large simulations, recently slashing compute time
from 50 hours to 5 hours for a specific benchmark.
New upgrades in the area of electronics design enable users to
predict and resolve printed circuit board electromagnetic
interference and run transient thermal analyses to ensure highly
reliable designs.
Also in the electromagnetic suite, ANSYS Maxwell delivers a
new multiphysics solver designed to predict noise and vibration in
electric vehicle (EV) powertrains, boosting EV overall reliability
and performance.
In addition to delivering quiet rides, next-generation EVs will
also be safer. Through its acquisition of Livermore Software
Technology Corporation (LSTC), ANSYS will enable OEMs to accurately
predict a vehicle's reaction and passenger safety in the wake of a
collision. Leveraging LSTC's leading-edge simulation will greatly
reduce — and possibly eliminate — the requirement for expensive
physical prototype testing.
AM customers can now use ANSYS Additive Prep to write build
files for multiple AM machine types, including EOS and SLM. This
significantly streamlines the development of AM manufactured parts
by eliminating the use of third-party software.
ANSYS' materials suite updates ANSYS® GRANTA MI™,
focusing on optimizing user experience for enterprise-wide
implementations. The suite also introduces ANSYS GRANTA MI Pro, a
new fast-start data management solution for design and simulation —
broadening access to the numerous benefits of material
intelligence.
Users will explore designs faster than ever with
ANSYS® Discovery™ Live's new steady-state fluids solver
and an updated structural solver which also improves accuracy for
thinner geometries. Users will also receive upfront design insights
with the addition of manufacturing constraints and multi-analysis
optimization for generative design.
Getting More from ANSYS Cloud
In ANSYS 2020 R1, ANSYS® Cloud™ introduces new
licensing options to enable greater business flexibility. Companies
can cost optimize cloud software usage by mixing elastic
(usage-based) and traditional (leased or paid-up) licensing while
accessing on-demand compute resources.
"ANSYS Cloud has been a game changer from a productivity
standpoint. We can simultaneously submit multiple ANSYS Mechanical
jobs covering different load cases without encountering scheduling
or memory capacity concerns," said Tim Marvel, P.E., vice
president, Business Development & Technology at Downing
Wellhead Equipment. "For each design, we evaluate 5-10 options with
multiple load cases. ANSYS Cloud has reduced the time of each job
from 20-25 hours to only 2-4 hours."
Improving Automotive Safety, Design and Acoustics with ANSYS
VRXPERIENCE
From leading-edge optical simulations to new applications for
embedded design, ANSYS 2020 R1 delivers new digital thread
enhancements across the board to boost the safety, reliability and
aesthetics of next-generation autonomous vehicles (AV).
ANSYS® VRXPERIENCE™ provides cutting-edge
innovations for sensor, human-machine interface (HMI) and sound
simulations. ANSYS VRXPERIENCE Sensor provides a reduced order
model (ROM) radar simulation for industrial automation
applications, enabling engineers to quickly test and improve the
accuracy and robustness of AV radars in edge cases. ANSYS
VRXPERIENCE HMI offers a streamlined process to test HMI prototypes
faster than ever. ANSYS VRXPERIENCE Sound offers an increased user
experience through an improved workflow and user interface that
assists uses in quickly detecting and analyzing engine noise,
helping engineers pivot their design to create a quieter cabin.
"Acoustic comfort in helicopter cabins is critically important
for pilots and passengers. Airbus Helicopters uses ANSYS
VRXPERIENCE Sound to accurately listen to and analyze sound,
troubleshoot unusual noise issues identified in flight and perform
fast psychoacoustic indicator calculations to estimate acoustic
comfort," said Julien Caillet, head
of department, acoustics at Airbus Helicopters. "By using
VRXPERIENCE Sound, we definitely see an unparalleled time gain.
ANSYS helps our team make earlier design choices, reduce physical
testing and shorten problem-solving time."
ANSYS 2020 R1 introduces ANSYS VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation to
simplify automotive product design illumination, delivering
engineering-grade light simulation to studio designers. VRXPERIENCE
Light Simulation combines visual design and advanced engineering
review by connecting Autodesk VRED design visualization software
and ANSYS' physics-based lighting simulations. This delivers a
photorealistic visualization of vehicle interior and exterior
lighting, enabling users to spend substantially less time and money
on physical prototype development.
Boosting Cybersecurity with ANSYS medini analyze
The latest release of ANSYS® medini
analyze addresses the increasing market need for systematic
analysis and assessment of security threats to AV cyber-physical
systems — beginning early in the system design. This helps
automakers model the limitations and weaknesses of AV system
components and environmental conditions to provide state-of-the-art
cybersecurity.
Illuminating Simulations with ANSYS SPEOS
ANSYS® SPEOS™ incorporates a
leading-edge model for camera simulation to increase the accuracy
of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and AV simulations,
creating results that are closer to reality. SPEOS also stretches
the limits of lighting simulation, empowering users to quickly and
efficiently model numerous types of lighting variations that AVs
will experience on the road and optimize AV lighting system
performance.
"Mazda is always eager to introduce smarter technology into
their vehicles, from ADAS systems to smart headlamps, tackling the
challenges to achieve high-quality requirements and scheduled
targets," said Tohru Yoshioka,
deputy general manager at Mazda. "Providing physics-based design
and testing of optical features, ANSYS SPEOS and VRXPERIENCE are
extensively used at Mazda to perform early and iterative digital
design and optimization of systems, from adaptive driving beams
using complex matrices of LED units to camera systems used in
AV-ADAS technology. This enables us to significantly reduce the
physical prototyping and testing phase of these systems while
improving safety and fast-tracking time to market."
Improving AV Safety-Critical Software Development with ANSYS
SCADE
The latest version of ANSYS® SCADE further
accelerates AV embedded control software design, incorporating
several new capabilities designed to reduce the development time
and cost for automatic code generation of safety-critical software
throughout the development cycle by over 50%.
ANSYS 2020 R1 extends the scalability of ANSYS SCADE Vision to
further accelerate testing activities and improve safety of large,
AI-based perception software projects by creating direct
connections to data lakes on customer cloud clusters.
Slashing Development Time and Boosting Productivity with
ANSYS Twin Builder
ANSYS® Twin Builder™ now
includes ANSYS Twin Builder Battery Wizard which will shorten
development time of building, simulating and testing an entire
battery-powered electrical system across industries.
"A123 uses ANSYS Twin Builder to perform thermal simulation of
their 48V battery pack development. With the help of the
simulations, A123 can determine thermal dependency on electric
performance, design cooling supply, calculate temperature
distributions and predict battery life," said Shawn Zhang, senior manager, Simulation
Engineering at A123 Systems. "A123 also utilizes ANSYS Twin
Builder's ROM technologies for simplifying complex 3D thermal
simulation which significantly reduces the simulation time from
days to few seconds while keeping the required simulation
accuracy."
Additionally, ANSYS Twin Builder features innovative
improvements to its industry-leading ROM capabilities including the
capacity to capture higher non-linearity components and the
integration of a tool-agnostic static ROM builder to enable field
visualization for ROMs. Twin Builder also provides improved
workflows for Modelica and runtime generation.
Power and Thermal Reliability Solutions for Automotive and 5G
Semiconductor Electronics
New updates to ANSYS® Redhawk-SC™ help engineers
gain better insights into more complex designs and substantially
slash simulation runtime — delivering significant performance and
accuracy improvements.
Also in 2020 R1, the ANSYS® Totem™ and
ANSYS® RedHawk™ product family are certified
to support a comprehensive list of advanced FinFET nodes and
2.5D/3D-IC packaging technologies. This empowers customers to
address the growing multiphysics challenges of power, thermal and
reliability in ultra-large and high-performance SoCs that
are at the heart of AI, 5G and automotive applications.
About ANSYS, Inc.
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bridge or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a
product where ANSYS software played a critical role in its
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simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering
Simulation, we help the world's most innovative companies deliver
radically better products to their customers. By offering the best
and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help
them solve the most complex design challenges and create products
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