ANSYS has reached an agreement with Caterpillar  Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, engines, industrial turbines and diesel-electric locomotives, for software that allows for multiphysics analysis to be performed on a single engineering simulation solution platform. ANSYS software empowers heavy equipment manufacturing companies to better solve some of the industry’s toughest design challenges while offering their customers some of the most cutting-edge products on the market.

Utilizing simulation early on in the design process enables engineers across multiple disciplines to more efficiently work together and better innovate product design by eliminating the need for manual data handling, which can cause delays and errors. By employing ANSYS solutions in a single, unified simulation platform, engineers and designers worldwide can optimize product designs for mining and construction equipment faster, reduce physical prototype testing, shorten product development cycles and deliver better, more robust products faster.

“As companies continue to rely more on engineering simulation they are finding major efficiency gains by standardizing on a common simulation platform,” said Sandeep Sovani, ANSYS’ global industry director, ground transportation. “We’re thrilled that Caterpillar has chosen ANSYS for their product simulation needs. We are confident our simulation platform further enhances Caterpillar’s speed to innovate, helping them deliver superior products faster and increase profitability.”

At Supercomputing Conference 2016, Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced its partnership with ANSYS, (NASDAQ:ANSS), a global leader in engineering simulation software, to build industrial computer aided engineering (CAE) solutions.

Huawei and ANSYS will further their cooperation in high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud computing domains to deliver joint customer optimized performances and the best financial return on their software and hardware investments. Starting this year, the two parties will collaborate to build joint system testing and industrial CAE solution capabilities.

Also during SC16, the two organizations jointly released their Fluent Benchmarking white paper based on the Huawei FusionServer X6800. The Fluent Benchmarking white paper provides optimized system configurations for fluid simulation scenarios in the industry domain, which enables customers to focus on product design and manufacturing, and improve efficiency.

“The ANSYS fluent benchmarking results not only shows the performance and reliability of Huawei’s HPC platform, but also confirms its exceptional system scalability and acceleration capabilities in building large-scale clusters,” said Stig Panduro, Director, Partner Ecosystems at ANSYS. “With supplementary service platforms and capabilities for each other, ANSYS and Huawei can build a strong partnership and provide customers with more competitive industry solutions to better address customers’ service challenges.”

Qiu Long, President of the Huawei Server Product Line, said, “Huawei has successfully deployed HPC systems for a large number of customers in the global manufacturing and education sectors. We see that digital transformation poses new service challenges to enterprise customers. Huawei will focus on the development of outstanding simulation computing platforms. We are committed to a win-win vision of openness, and Huawei would like to collaborate with ANSYS and other industry application solution providers in building industrial CAE solutions with higher efficiency and usability to help customers achieve business success.”

ANSYS  announced   that it will collaborate with GE to create model-based digital twin technology and disruptive commercial business models to deliver on the promise of the Industrial Internet of Things. This builds on an existing relationship between the two companies. ANSYS will demonstrate a variety of industry-specific digital twins at GE’s (NYSE: GE) Minds + Machines event in San Francisco, dedicated to building the digital industrial ecosystem.

Simulation technology is no longer solely used by engineers to design better products and reduce the costs of physical testing. Leading organizations are expanding the use of simulation into operations by creating digital twins – virtual representations of individual operating assets whose performance and productivity can be improved dynamically through simulation technology. Coupling the rich sensor data from increasingly smart industrial equipment with the predictive power of simulation, specific operating conditions can be analyzed and failure points predicted, unlocking billions of dollars in production and maintenance optimization.

Digital twins can live with the asset, providing a dynamic self-teaching model used to optimize its performance in conjunction with an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform. This combination of machine learning, coupled with physics-based modeling, enables organizations to see how their products performed in the past and predict the future simultaneously. Using ANSYS to create model-based digital twins will provide a foundation to scaling the benefits of the IIoT. This is no longer a theoretic concept as ANSYS and GE Global Research are already demonstrating actual implementation of digital twins, like the GuardEon Molded Case Circuit Breaker, a powerful low-voltage circuit breaker designed for global industry applications. By using ANSYS software, GE engineers are able to study and test complex physics at a level of detail that was impossible to achieve through physical testing.

“Pairing physics and analytics models via the digital twin is essential to providing our customers with the 360 degree insights they need to create competitive advantage in a rapidly changing world,” said Eric Bantegnie, ANSYS vice president. “We are excited to be taking another step forward in our long-standing partnership with GE.”

Through this collaboration, ANSYS will work with GE Digital, GE Global Research and GE’s industrial businesses to expand and integrate ANSYS’ leading physics-based engineering simulation and embedded software development platform with GE’s Predix platform to power digital twin solutions across a wide range of industries. Scaling digital twin solutions from the edge to the cloud will accelerate the value of ANSYS simulation, drive Predix adoption and open new opportunities to explore disruptive business models and commercial relationships.

“We are building the digital industrial ecosystem to drive better outcomes for our customer through the Predix platform,” said John Magee, Chief Marketing Officer, Predix. “ANSYS is the market leader in physics-based simulation, and we are pleased to work with them to scale model-based digital twin solutions on Predix to provide our customers with new insights that were not possible before.”

ANSYS – the global leader and innovator of engineering simulation software, announced that it has acquired Berlin-based KPIT medini Technologies AG, a leading provider of systems safety analysis solutions.

As products – from mobile phones to automobiles – become smarter and more complex, the need to simulate the entire system, and not just its components, is increasing rapidly. That added complexity provides new ways for products to fail, making systems safety and reliability analysis more critical than ever.

Medini develops and markets solutions for systems safety analysis, reliability engineering and quality management. Its flagship solution, medini analyze, implements core functional safety analysis activities and integrates them with customers’ existing engineering workflows. Medini analyze provides wide support, including at the concept, system, software and hardware levels.

A combined ANSYS-medini solution enables companies to have one system simulation solution for the entire product development cycle. This will allow companies to more effectively manage their system engineering processes, as well as to perform in-depth sub-system and component engineering development in a single comprehensive platform – achieving functional safety, reliability and quality targets faster and more cost-effectively.

“With trends like autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things, innovation has never been more important for companies, regardless of their industry. But system complexity can be a barrier to innovation for some organizations,” said Jim Cashman, ANSYS CEO. “That’s why we’re excited about the systems functional safety capabilities medini adds to the broad ANSYS portfolio. Our combined solution will spark innovation in a variety of industries.”

“This unique combination will help us to extend our reach into other sectors, including aircraft and energy, where ANSYS is strong,” said Olaf Kath, co-founder and CEO of medini. “And we will be able to work with our existing customers in the automotive industry to reduce their reliance on costly physical testing and streamline system engineering processes, while also improving the speed and success of their product development efforts.”

“We are very happy about synergy in the tools strategy for medini and ANSYS,” said KPIT CEO Kishor Patil, “KPIT will continue to focus on functional safety services and be a long-term strategic partner to medini and ANSYS.”

As the number of smart, connected electronic devices grow, manufacturers of mobile, networking, automotive, industrial automation and healthcare applications need to design high performing and reliable products at a lower cost. To meet these growing demands, TSMC and ANSYS are collaborating to enhance and deliver the most comprehensive suite of design solutions for TSMC’s wafer-scale Integrated InFO packaging technology.

By working together, TSMC and ANSYS have enabled ANSYS solutions for a variety of multi-die analyses including extraction, power and reliability, signal and power integrity and thermal and electromagnetic interference. The design enablement allows mobile and IoT manufacturers to create cost-effective, thinner and highly reliable cutting-edge mobile and IoT products using ANSYS’ fully validated integrated circuit and package-level solutions.

“Our collaboration with TSMC has enabled the delivery of comprehensive and validated power signal integrity and reliability solutions for InFO package technology within the market,” said John Lee, general manager, ANSYS. “ANSYS’ best in class engineering simulation solutions enable our mutual customers to innovate beyond chip to package and system-level designs for mobile and IoT applications.”

“Through the intensive collaboration of both parties, we are able to address design considerations in reliability and power integrity for InFO technology,” said Suk Lee, TSMC senior director, Design Infrastructure Marketing Division. “The enablement of ANSYS solutions ensures their readiness, allowing customers to analyze and design reliable power delivery networks across chip, package and system.”

• James E. Cashman to Become Chairman of the Board of Directors Effective January 1, 2017
• Dr. Ajei S. Gopal Appointed President and Chief Operating Officer Effective Immediately;
• Gopal to Become Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2017

ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANSS) today announced a leadership succession plan. James E. Cashman, who has served as ANSYS’ Chief Executive Officer since 2000, will become Chairman of the Board of Directors effective January 1, 2017. Dr. Ajei S. Gopal, a technology industry veteran who has served as a member of the ANSYS Board since 2011, has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer effective immediately and will continue to serve on the Board. Dr. Gopal will become Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2017. Ronald W. Hovsepian, who currently serves as Chairman of the ANSYS Board, will assume the role of Lead Independent Director as part of this transition.

Mr. Hovsepian said, “We are grateful to Jim for his remarkable leadership. He led ANSYS’ transformation from a $50 million revenue company into the global market leader for simulation technology with nearly $1 billion in revenue, creating significant value for stockholders. On behalf of the entire Board, I thank Jim for his countless contributions and unwavering commitment to ANSYS. His decision to implement this leadership succession plan was made with much thought and consideration, and we appreciate him working with the entire Board to help identify his successor and facilitate a smooth transition. We all look forward to benefitting from his continued guidance, vision and expertise as Chairman.”

Mr. Cashman said, “Over the past 20 years, we have grown ANSYS to become the world’s leading engineering software provider thanks to our relentless focus on innovation and commitment to our customers. Today, ANSYS has the most talented employees in the industry, a best-in-class portfolio, more than 45,000 customers worldwide and a sound growth strategy to take us into the future. As we look to scale to $2 billion in revenues and beyond, I strongly believe that now is the right time to begin the transition to the next generation of leadership. Attracting Ajei, a technology industry veteran with an exceptional track record, is a huge win for ANSYS. I have come to know and admire Ajei as a fellow director, and I have no doubt that his outstanding leadership, unique perspective and appreciation for ANSYS’ culture, people and organization make him the right choice to serve as our next leader during this exciting time.”

Dr. Gopal is a 25-year industry veteran with extensive management and business development experience at large software and technology companies. He has held leadership roles at companies including Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, CA Technologies and IBM, and also brings start-up experience, having co-founded ReefEdge Networks. He joined Silver Lake in April 2013 as an operating partner.

Dr. Gopal’s appointment as Mr. Cashman’s successor follows an extensive search conducted by the ANSYS Board with the assistance of Heidrick & Struggles, a leading independent executive search firm. The search included a review of both internal and external candidates.

Mr. Hovsepian continued, “There is no better person than Ajei to lead ANSYS through this pivotal time in the Company’s expansion. He brings a proven track record, expertise managing the scale and complexity of a global multi-billion dollar company and critical skills in software strategy, engineering, product management and development. Ajei has profound knowledge of our business and strategic direction, as well as significant financial discipline. We are excited to enter our next phase of growth under his leadership.”

Dr. Gopal said, “I am honored by the opportunity to lead ANSYS. With an accelerating pace of innovation, ANSYS is on an exciting growth trajectory as it executes on its long-term plans. Jim’s vision and tremendous leadership have set a high bar, and I am committed to building on our standard of excellence and pushing the boundaries of innovation to help customers solve their most complex design challenges. I look forward to working with Jim, the Board, our leadership team, employees and customers around the globe to continue our legacy and capture the vast market opportunity ahead to drive stockholder value.”

Separately and unrelated to the leadership succession plan, ANSYS also announced today that Robert Kocis, Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Support will depart on October 1, 2016, to pursue another opportunity in the Managed Services industry. ANSYS has a deep bench of sales talent and the sales organization will report to Dr. Gopal in his capacity as President and COO, effective immediately.

Engineers can now create next-generation products easier, faster and more economically with advances across the ANSYS engineering simulation portfolio. Available today, ANSYS 17.2 offers a wealth of new functionality, including enhanced multiphysics coupling, new workflows for antenna design and automated temperature characteristics for electric machines.

The latest version of the ANSYS portfolio also enables engineers to combine advanced simulation technology across the portfolio or enlist external tools to address the complex engineering challenges inherent in today’s smart and connected products.

“ANSYS 17.2 marks another milestone in the 45-year history of engineering simulation,” said Walid Abu-Hadba, chief product officer, ANSYS. “This latest release of our simulation portfolio has new functionality that engineers in virtually every industry can benefit from. We continue to push the technology curve with multiphysics to accurately predict how products will behave in the real world, while continuing to increase the openness and interoperability of our platform with standard engineering tools.”

Fast, Accurate ANSYS Combustion Modeling Now Compatible with GT-Suite 2016

Powertrain designers will be able to use ANSYS 17.2 to better evaluate and optimize their products for fuel effects, efficiency, knocking and emissions.

ANSYS Chemkin-Pro, the gold standard for simulating complex chemical reactions for combustion systems, now adds plug-in compatibility with Gamma Technologies GT-Suite 2016. Through Chemkin-Pro, GT-SUITE users can gain access to detailed and validated reaction mechanisms in ANSYS Model Fuel Library. Users can employ this library as an alternative to the standard GT-SUITE models, when optimizing their internal combustion engines for fuel effects, efficiency, knocking and emissions.

Model-Based Software Development for Mission and Safety-Critical Applications

ANSYS model-based software development technologies have kept in step with increasing demands and certification standards for mission- and safety-critical applications across the automotive, rail, aerospace and energy industries. ANSYS 17.2 includes a complete workflow from software requirements through software design and code generation and ultimately to software testing and verification that has been expanded from C to also support Ada certified code generation for DO-178C, IEC 61508, EN 50128 and ISO 26262. Improved links to IBM DOORS and Dassault Systèmes Reqtify requirements management tools enable ANSYS SCADE solutions to be easily incorporated into existing workflows.

Also available with ANSYS 17.2 is a new SCADE Test environment capability to automate the testing of embedded displays and to provide enhanced support of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing with National Instruments Veristand and AUTOSAR system design import capabilities.

Enhanced Workflow for Antenna Design and Large 3-D Field Simulations

To meet the growing demand of wireless devices and the Internet of Things, ANSYS 17.2 delivers several advancements for antenna design and antenna placement. A new streamlined interface between ANSYS HFSS and ANSYS HFSS SBR+ (formerly Savant) enables antenna designs created in HFSS to easily be imported to the HFSS SBR+ advanced shooting and bouncing ray solver to validate the design and placement of the antenna.

Thermal Analysis for Upfront Electric Machine and Electro-Mechanical Design

Electrical machine designers can now evaluate cooling strategies thanks to enhancements in the ANSYS Maxwell-to-ANSYS Icepak interface. ANSYS RMxprt, the electrical machine synthesis tool in Maxwell, can now output the machine geometry and temperature characteristics of the materials used in the design. This eliminates the user requirement to manually add the temperature characteristics before doing the thermal simulation in Icepak.

ANSYS Workbench – One Platform Accelerating the Pace of Innovation

The ANSYS Workbench platform continues to unify the broad portfolio of ANSYS simulation technologies and tightly integrates the new capabilities available in this release. This allows simulation experts across domains to work more seamlessly together and also for expert and non-expert users to apply simulation coherently from concept to detailed design.

In addition, Workbench adds new features for increasing customization and integration, allowing for tailor made workflows across the enterprise, integration with other engineering platforms and tools, as well as secure data management. This enables simulation to adapt to customer’s individual processes and cross-functional collaboration, significantly reducing development costs and time to market.

Future General Electric Co. customers will benefit from innovative and reliable products with reduced risk and unplanned downtime as never before thanks to a new agreement between the company and ANSYS.

The new agreement expands GE’s use of ANSYS engineering simulation solutions to accommodate its November 2015 acquisition of Alstom’s Power and Grid businesses. It enables GE to realize synergistic savings through tool consolidation, while still growing the number of ANSYS solutions used in product development and analysis, product quality, and testing. This use of Simulation Driven Product Development has already reduced cycle times by 33 percent, an even further reduction is expected as a result of this investment.

The deal also expands beyond product development into operations, a key element to GE’s Predix Industrial Internet platform. Predix is the world’s only industrial cloud offering designed specifically for industrial data and analytics across such industries as aviation, transportation, oil and gas, and healthcare. Organizations use this platform to create innovative Industrial Internet applications that turn real-time operational data into insights for better and faster decision making while maximizing machine efficiency.

ANSYS’ industry-leading portfolio of engineering simulation software will collaborate with GE Power Engineering to pilot “simulation as a service,” enabling companies to analyze the performance of smart machines in real-world operating conditions, then make confident predictions about future performance. Physics-based simulation with big data analytics and industrial devices augmented with embedded intelligence can reduce risk, avoid unplanned downtime and speed up new product development.

“By collaborating with ANSYS, we’re better able to deliver the world the most advanced products to power the world and support the GE Digital Thread strategy,” said John Lammas, vice president, gas power systems technology and chief technology officer of GE Power.

“The industry is in the midst of a revolution in manufacturing and product innovation,” said Walid Abu-Hadba, chief product officer at ANSYS. “With our new agreement in hand, GE and ANSYS will help to usher in this new age of Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, enabling organizations to innovate like never before while delivering on their promise to deliver the most robust and reliable products ever imagined.”

ANSYS announced today that it joined GE‘s Digital Predix early adopter program. This move combines the power of the leading engineering simulation platform with the first and only industrial cloud offering for industrial data and analytics, GE’s Predix cloud platform. As part of the Predix early adopter program, the two companies will demonstrate a pilot integration of ANSYS flagship simulation platform with GE’s Predix industrial internet platform today at GE’s Minds + Machines event in San Francisco.

GE’s Predix industrial internet platform is the world’s only industrial cloud offering designed specifically for industrial data and analytics across such industries as aviation, transportation, oil and gas, and healthcare. Organizations use this platform to create innovative Industrial Internet applications that turn real-time operational data into insight for better and faster decision making while maximizing machine efficiency.

Engineering simulation software has traditionally been used in the design phase, and almost every innovative product in the market today has benefited from it. With the Internet of Things, simulation is becoming even more essential as advanced products now combine mechanical, fluid, electronics and embedded software. A complete systems level model is now necessary to benchmark operational field data analytics with simulated system performance. This collaboration with industry visionary GE will demonstrate the benefits of extending the engineering simulation to the full product lifecycle from initial design to operation and maintenance and back again to design of the next-generation machines.

Connecting ANSYS’s industry-leading portfolio of engineering simulation software to the data and analytics platform of GE’s Predix industrial internet platform will help companies analyze the performance of smart machines in real-world operating conditions – and make confident predictions that were previously mere speculation. Physics-based simulation with big data analytics and industrial devices augmented with embedded intelligence can reduce risk, avoid unplanned downtime and speed up new product development.

The resulting efficiency and productivity gains will have a dramatic effect on organizations’ bottom lines as well as on the global economy in general. GE estimates that Industrial Internet technologies will help drive hundreds of billions of dollars of savings alone over 15 years.

By combining machine connectivity with a data lifecycle management platform powered by engineering simulation, ANSYS and GE will enable organizations to optimally design their products for the Industrial Internet, then take the data being relayed on their performance and use it in the development of the next generation of those products. The pilot collaboration between ANSYS and GE is aimed at demonstrating this vision for the Industrial Internet of Things.

“With Predix, GE is helping to drive digital innovation across the industrial world—but the success of the Industrial Internet depends on a collaborative ecosystem,” said Harel Kodesh, vice president, Predix and chief technology officer, GE Digital. “With ANSYS, we look forward to giving our customers the tools they need to adopt digital technologies and software to drive better outcomes for their businesses.”

“GE has been a longtime, strategic ANSYS customer, and we’re excited to take our relationship to the next level by helping its customers around the world innovate faster,” said Walid Abu-Hadba, ANSYS chief product officer. “By combining the power of ANSYS solutions with Predix, we will be able to empower our customers to push the boundaries of innovation and productivity – impacting top- and bottom-line business results.”

ANSYS, the global leader of engineering simulation software, announced today that it has acquired substantially all the assets of Delcross Technologies, a premier developer of computational electromagnetic simulation and radio frequency system analysis software. The acquisition will enable ANSYS users to understand how antennas interact within their operating environments and how this behavior affects the system’s overall ability to transmit and receive data without interference. Terms of the deal, which closed earlier this week, were not disclosed.

Driven by development for the Internet of Things, antennas are becoming increasingly pervasive across industries and products. Autonomous vehicles, smart metering, drones, bio-sensors and wearable electronics are just a few examples of products that now use one or more antennas and wireless systems to provide such services as voice, data communications, sensing and navigation. But these antennas and other electronic components can disrupt the operation of devices, a phenomenon known as electromagnetic interference, or EMI. Delcross’ solutions identify and help mitigate EMI issues.

“ANSYS will bring Delcross’ industry-leading technology to a broader market and further strengthen our leadership in antenna design, wireless system performance and EMI prediction,” said Jim Cashman, ANSYS president and CEO. “The combined ANSYS high-frequency solution will deliver an unequalled portfolio for wireless system design. When we pair this expanded electronics offering with our best-in-class structures and fluids solutions, our users can create more complete virtual prototypes of whole systems.”

“The combination of ANSYS and Delcross provides a powerful solution for next-generation wireless system design,” said Matt Miller, Delcross president. “The acquisition opens new system opportunities and better positions ANSYS to meet the simulation needs of these important applications. That’s why the Delcross team and I are extremely pleased to join ANSYS.”