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, 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.”

New update of the market-leading engineering simulation platform delivers advancements for manufacturers to spur innovation and increase productivity.

Using the newly released ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) 16.2, engineers can now create virtual prototypes of complete systems, enabling them to make significant strides in innovation and to unleash next-generation products within their industries.

As products – from automobiles to smartphones to wearable technology – become more complex and development times continue to shrink, the need to simulate whole systems grows. Through simulation, engineers can take full advantage of the growing number of opportunities presented by the rapid innovation of materials, electronics and processes. While some manufacturers have optimized the design of components or smaller sub-systems, until today’s ANSYS release, no comprehensive solution has existed for simulating complete systems. The complexity within systems arises from the challenges of connecting the individual pieces to ensure they work together as designed. By developing complete virtual prototypes, leading companies can jump-start their innovation and leapfrog the competition.

“ANSYS customers are already solving component and sub-system problems using the most advanced software available. But with today’s release of ANSYS 16.2, they expand to the system level,” said Jim Cashman, ANSYS president and CEO. “We’re offering engineers the most advanced engineering solution technologies on the market to predict real-world product performance using accurate, fast and reliable simulation. By leveraging these new capabilities, enterprises will gain competitive advantage in a competitive market.”

“Understanding how the whole system works is critical to developing an optimized design in minimal time,” said Jim Shaikh, founder of yoomi, which creates self-warming baby bottle products. “We perform a series of design studies using the simulation software and utilize the results to build a simpler analytical model to crunch through thousands of possible geometric alternatives.”

Part of this new simulation approach is made possible by enhancements to ANSYS^ Simplorer^, a comprehensive platform for multidisciplinary systems modeling. In this new release, Simplorer can now assemble and simulate electrical, electronic, thermo-fluid, mechanical and embedded software components. The methodology offers advanced 3-D precision when needed, as well as reduced-order modeling for verifying multi-domain system performance interaction.

“The systems enhancements made in ANSYS 16.2 will elevate our product development process with its new 3-D simulation capabilities,” said Steve Franceschini, director of engineering at Meggitt OECO, which develops power generation and conversion products. “With the ability to virtually build, test and validate our prototypes with ANSYS 16.2, we will have the ability to further innovate our reliable products faster.”

AIM Advancements Expand Multiphysics Reach of Systems Engineering

ANSYS 16.2 offers significant advancements in systems engineering through ANSYS^ AIM^, the first integrated and comprehensive multiphysics simulation environment designed for engineers, which was introduced earlier this year. AIM has rapidly developed and ANSYS 16.2 represents its next step forward. Among the many new multiphysics and systems capabilities are heat transfer and thermal-stress, gas flows, and structural deformation and stress.

Optimizing heat transfer and thermal-stress is a critical design issue for many types of industry applications, such as heat exchangers, thermal mixing valves, engine components and electronic devices. In such applications, an accurate prediction of the temperature and heat transfer in both the fluid and solid regions is essential to accurately predict the thermal and thermal-stress performance of the design. AIM now includes new features to support a comprehensive conjugate heat transfer analysis and one-way fluid-structure interaction to compute thermal-stress.

Predicting the correct flow field for compressible gas flows in the subsonic and transonic range is a critical design issue for many different applications. Industry applications include – high speed flow over airfoils or nacelles, and high-pressure flows in natural gas pipelines and valves. AIM now supports an accurate prediction of the flow field, variation of the gas density and thermal behavior for all compressible flow applications, which is critical for predicting the performance of a design.

In a range of structural applications, nonlinear contact is required to accurately predict deformation and stress in assemblies where multiple components are connected by interference fits, bolts, welds or are otherwise joined together. AIM includes robust nonlinear contact simulation using advanced solver technology for surface-to-surface contact combined with automatic contact surface detection and automatic nonlinear solution control.

AIM makes all of these simulation applications available to experts within one physics domain, as well as product designers who need to span multiple domains, making simulation more broadly applicable across different engineering disciplines.

Customization Critical in Systems Engineering

Due to the complexity of systems engineering, workflow and automation are critical. ANSYS 16.2 automates the overall approach to developing embedded software systems for avionics. A new systems development product, ANSYS^ SCADE System Avionics Package, simplifies systems design capabilities for the aerospace and defense industries. It delivers out-of-the-box templates for compliant design systems that are compliant with standard avionics protocols and operating systems, including: ARINC 653, ARINC 429 and AFDX configurations.

To accommodate the needs of a wide varieties of industries that require more customized workflows, ANSYS has added new capabilities in the Workbench platform and ANSYS Customization Toolkit (ACT) to customize simulation tools to accelerate the overall design process and workflows. ACT wizards provide customized simulation instructions and user interfaces to integrate any application in Workbench. These wizards span workflows across applications and guide the user through a single set of instructions.

Custom templates, as a part of the ACT enhancements, are also available in AIM to provide an authoring tool for highly automated and detailed simulation processes. These templates span the entire AIM workflow from geometry to results, as well as across all physics that may be a part of the simulation process. This critical capability enables multi-disciplinary teams to work effectively together and to deliver innovative advances across all disciplines of product design.

The word spirituality brings varied emotions with people across age group and profession. The concept of spirituality itself has leap forged in the last decade, while the advent of social networking and self distracting tools made ‘Spirituality” as must have than can have option for peaceful life, to be spiritually inclined is becoming IoT of life.

The average human life has moved into an era of distractions and these distractions have evolved in spirituality as pit-stop in the life. Spirituality is now a specialised and personalised service, thanks to smartphone’s and apps. This leads to emergence of new concepts in spirituality; few startups have become mega spiritual corporations.

Pre web 2.0 spirituality was used as a step back option to reconnect with inner self and it was also used as affordable lever to mitigate the psychological insecurities. Emergence of web 2.0 resulted in making spirituality a hide out to connect with inner self through professional networking or social networking sites.

The similar effect is evident in the product and services segment; wherein simulation solutions spiritualises the business goals. Customer aspirations have kept the product and services companies on their toes to remain innovative to achieve the brand loyalty; thereby simulation solutions are becoming the limbic brain of the design.

The drivers for spirituality and simulation solutions are very much similar:-

Spiritual guru’s (simulation solver) : Spirituality movement driven by person or institution to provide arrested landing to human mind over distractions and spirituality is religion agnostic.   The fan following to any spirituality way doesn’t just depend on the guru, it all depends on the experiences of the disciples and how well the guru’s concept have connected with their day-to-day life.

Simulation solution addresses the spiritual quotient to all product and service companies by being CAD agnostic and bringing nirvana to their engineering problems (helping their engineering problems attain nirvana). Simulation products helps the companies to protect their IP and uniqueness of the product

Spiritual movement (simulation ecosystem): A unique spiritual ideology brings fanatic followers, these followers become brand ambassadors bringing business value to the movement. This is possible, when follower’s quality of life is enriched in everyday life.

Simulation ecosystem does the same to product and services companies; the availability of qualified manpower and solution capability to solve the engineering problems involving multiple physical entities. The adoption of specific simulation depends on whom the customer is following in day-to-day life than whom he wants to follow.

Spirituality religion agnostic (simulation solution R&D focus and on cloud): Any spiritual movement is successful when

the spiritual gurus/institutions make right research and provide scientific, medical rationales to follow the path. This reassures the followers as ‘Why’ chosen method will improve their quality of daily life.

Simulation solutions get respect and acceptability with customer segments due to its focus on R&D spend, the R&D spend by the simulation solutions will help customers to achieve their business targets, attain high ROI on technology spend and protect the IP.

Simulated products/services will be enable to connect with ‘Why’ quotient of end customers of the product or services and simulation solutions on cloud helps its customers to practice innovation spirituality at low cost of ownership. Soon customers will aim to decipher new ‘Why’ ie IoT with simulation.

We are entering an era, wherein International Yoga Day is being celebrated and Steffi Graf is named as the brand ambassador for ayurveda, similarly multiphysics will be the yoga of simulation very soon.

Image Courtesy: Kishan Harwalkar

ANSYS integrated circuit simulation tools deliver unsurpassed capacity and performance to deliver industry-leading family of processor IPs.

Imagination Technologies has adopted ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) integrated circuit power analysis and optimization solutions. The ANSYS solutions help deliver fast, reliable and power-efficient multi-media and application processor intellectual properties (IPs).

As the global leader in multi-media, processor and communication technologies, Imagination is leveraging ANSYS^® PowerArtist to ensure delivery of silicon IPs with the highest performance at the lowest power consumption levels and silicon areas. Performing power analysis and reduction early in the design phase at the architectural level enables Imagination to gain maximum performance per milli-watt of power. PowerArtist provides the capacity and performance required to run full-chip power analysis at the register transfer level (RTL), as well as comprehensive RTL power reduction techniques and robust reporting capabilities. In addition, PowerArtist allows Imagination to bridge the gap between RTL and implementation and ensure accuracy and predictability in the power results.

“To deliver highly efficient, low-power multimedia processors in dynamic mobile, consumer and automotive markets, we need to ensure that our silicon IP cores deliver the best power, performance and price for our end customers’ application,” said Mark Dunn, Executive Vice President, IMGworks Platform IP Group with Imagination. “PowerArtist enables us to optimize our entire design, while ensuring downstream accuracy.”

“Adoption of ANSYS solutions by industry-leading companies such as Imagination demonstrates our ability to meet the stringent power and performance requirements of silicon IPs used in a broad range of applications,” said Fares Mubarak, ANSYS vice president and general manager. “We are committed to delivering the best-in-class solutions that address our customers’ growing power challenges.”

ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) customers can now deploy consistent enterprise-specific simulation workflows and data to more engineers, regardless of geographic location or business unit with today’s launch of ANSYS^® 16.1 and ANSYS^® Enterprise Cloud.

The new solution, running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), simplifies and accelerates the transition to cloud-based simulation by providing a reference architecture for end-to-end simulation that can be deployed within days – minimizing risk while boosting productivity. Customers who adopt the ANSYS Enterprise Cloud can scale their simulation capacity – including infrastructure and software assets – on demand, in response to changing business requirements, optimizing efficiency and cost while responding to the growing demand for wider use of the technology.

“HGST sees the use of cloud computing as an important paradigm shift, providing increased business agility and the capacity when and where we need it,” said Steve Phillpott, chief information officer of HGST, Inc. “We are impressed that the ANSYS solution delivers the full end-to-end simulation process in the cloud, allowing us to maintain models, simulate and analyze results directly in our virtual private cloud (VPC) environment. Keeping everything in HGST’s VPC mitigates compliance, connectivity, performance and latency issues that are unique challenges for complex modeling and simulation workflows such as ours.”

The ANSYS Enterprise Cloud has been carefully architected to remove previous barriers to adoption of cloud computing for engineering simulation. Delivered in a single-tenant environment that secures customer data, the solution supports 3-D interactive graphics workloads and auto-scaling high-performance computing (HPC), so results don’t need to move between end users and the cloud datacenter.

With the ANSYS Enterprise Cloud, more engineers can access the software and hardware tools they need, enabling broader adoption of simulation technologies and helping organizations stay competitive while focusing on their core competencies.

“ANSYS has supported cloud solutions for a number of years, but ANSYS Enterprise Cloud takes the simulation of complete virtual prototypes to an entirely new level by providing our full suite of comprehensive engineering simulation solutions on a global cloud platform” said Jim Cashman, ANSYS CEO. “Customers don’t want to be saddled with specifying, procuring, deploying and managing simulation infrastructure. That’s where ANSYS Enterprise Cloud excels. Outsourcing the simulation datacenter allows customers to focus on developing breakthrough products while freeing up capital for other investments.”

In addition to the cloud offering, ANSYS 16.1 delivers advancements in the area of parametric optimization.  Genetic aggregation, in ANSYS DesignXplorer, automates the selection of best response surface algorithm.  The result is a highly accurate response surface, created automatically and in a fraction of the time versus other optimization solutions. That enables users to realize their most innovative designs quickly and with confidence.

With the new release, ANSYS AIM continues to redefine how multiphysics simulation is performed in a single user environment. AIM, a next-generation simulation environment, extends the value of simulation beyond single engineering disciplines by providing a full array of physics in a unified, immersive user environment readily deployable across the organization. This release delivers several productivity innovations and supports kinematic joints for assemblies in motion.

The latest release of ANSYS Redhawk is optimized to solve the challenges inherent in 10-nanometer and smaller integrated circuit (IC) design challenges, including higher current density and increased reliability challenges such as electromigration failures. ANSYS 16.1 also introduces distributed machine processing, which enables simulation of the largest and most modern IC designs that can be solved fast on hardware found in typical clusters and servers.

Simulation leader recognized for quality and innovation at inaugural awards

Bangalore, April 21, 2015 – Acknowledging its outstanding financial performance and reputation for quality and innovation, The Engineering Simulation Show recognized ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) as Company of the Year during its 2015 Engineering Simulation Awards, held in Derby, U.K.

The Engineering Simulation Awards celebrate those companies leading the way – defining the future of simulation, and the mission critical role it plays within the product development processes of leading companies across a wide range of industries.

“Simulation has moved from a validation and verification tool to an integral part of leading companies’ product development processes,” said Sin Min Yap, ANSYS vice president of marketing. “By using simulation throughout the process and by simulating complete virtual prototypes of complex products, organizations around the world can be more efficient in making engineering trade-off decisions – increasing innovation and speeding products to market.”

Criteria for winning the award include having a strong market presence, an outstanding reputation for quality and an innovative approach to business.

“We were delighted to award ANSYS with the prestigious award for Company of the Year 2015 in recognition of their outstanding product and service offerings, which together with a range of marketing campaigns have captured the imagination and attention of the whole industry,” said Ken Davies, director of GSE Media Ltd. and organizer of the Engineering Simulation Show.

At EASTEC 2015 the latest version of VERICUT, V7.3, will be featured in CGTech’s booth: 5344. VERICUT CNC machine simulation, verification and optimization software simulates all types of CNC machining. It operates independently, but can also be integrated with leading CAM systems.

A common feature of all recent releases of the software has been the focus on full integration with the CAD/CAM and machine tool industry. As a result VERICUT is now at the heart of the CNC manufacturing process. Machine simulation with VERICUT detects collisions and near-misses between all machine tool components such as axis slides, heads, turrets, rotary tables, spindles, tool changers, fixtures, workpieces, cutting tools, and other user-defined objects. Machine movements can even be simulated while stepping or playing backwards in VERlCUT‘s Review Mode.

With VERICUT Reviewer, shop floor personnel, suppliers, customers, and other production engineers can view animations of the CNC machining process. It is a stand-alone viewer that does not use a license that can play forward and backward while removing and replacing material. The Reviewer files can also be played on an iPad.

Cornell University’s College of Engineering and ANSYS are training future engineers worldwide to become proficient in engineering simulation solutions. Through the SimCafe wiki, which was developed in part with National Science Foundation support, students at Cornell and elsewhere are preparing themselves for success by learning to use – for free – the same tools utilized by thousands of engineers in virtually every industry. ANSYS donated the simulation software for the development of the site.

SimCafe has helped integrate simulation into 12 mechanical and aerospace engineering courses at Cornell. Outside of the university, SimCafe has attracted more than 130,000 visitors from more than 150 countries including users from over 170 educational institutions.

“The effective integration of industry-standard simulation tools with traditional engineering education makes learning more practical and engaging,” said Rajesh Bhaskaran, director of engineering simulation at Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. “It also gives students unprecedented opportunities to learn in a self-paced, hands-on manner not only simulation but also core engineering concepts.  This helps us better prepare students for the modern engineering workplace.”

A series of learning modules is available for free online and runs with ANSYS software. Using SimCafe, students engage in a systematic process for checking results, including comparing to their hand calculations. Many of the SimCafe modules juxtapose traditional textbook content with the numerical approach that ANSYS software uses. SimCafe includes a template that contributors can use to create new tutorials for the site. The template ensures that tutorials follow a standard format and use best practices in instruction even though they are developed by different authors.

“When I arrived at Cornell a decade ago, Dr. Bhaskaran and I collaborated on integrating ANSYS® Fluent® into our Intermediate Fluid Mechanics class,” said Lance R. Collins, dean of engineering at Cornell. “The experiment was incredibly successful, as students found they could more easily grasp difficult concepts by exploring them with the software. SimCafe takes that experiment to a whole new level. I am thrilled to now see our early success replicated across so many different classes and projects worldwide.”

Added Murali Kadiramangalam, director of the academic program at ANSYS, “We are proud to help a leading institution like Cornell prepare engineering students worldwide to use the latest engineering simulation software. In developing a high comfort level with these product development tools before entering the workforce, students will be more valuable to their employers and more satisfied in their careers.”

Corporations and universities leverage engineering simulation to solve difficult engineering challenges in healthcare, industrial equipment and vehicle engines.

A company developing new spinal instruments to reduce the risks of scoliotic surgery and a university’s examination of how a leather back turtle would weather climate change were among the five winning entries in the annual ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) Hall of Fame image competition.

The contest, which highlights some of the most complex engineering challenges, gives ANSYS users the opportunity to showcase their simulation work by producing eye-grabbing images and animation. For the second year in a row, 2014 submissions were divided into two categories – corporate and academic – and allowed ANSYS to select multiple “best-in-class” winners from each category.

The corporate winners are:

• Andritz Hydro, a global supplier of electro-mechanical systems and services for hydropower plants. Andritz used ANSYS solutions to develop a lighter-weight valve that replaces welds with bolts with controlled tightening, reducing design time and production costs – while increasing valve sales.
• BRP, a world leader in the design, manufacturing, distribution and marketing of motorized recreational vehicles and powersports engines. Using ANSYS, BRP engineers reduced external forces on an engine’s gearcase and observed the effects those forces had on the internal gearcase components. As a result, the company solved surface degradation and speed reduction problems.
• Spinologics, a leader in the development of next-generation medical devices. Spinologics used simulations generated by ANSYS® Mechanical to perform patient-specific analyses of scoliotic spine procedures before surgery, which led to the development of a new spinal instrumentation system that could reduce the risks of scoliotic surgery.

The academic winners are:

• National Taiwan University of Science and Technology researchers used ANSYS® Workbench to calculate how variations in bone quality, patient geometry and even posture can affect the performance of corrective bone and tissue implants.
• University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers used ANSYS solutions to model a swimming leatherback turtle’s flipper stroke in four zones and four phases to determine the energy expended by the turtle while swimming. This could help predict where this type of sea turtle might survive, as its environment is changing due to global warming.

“Organizations in every industry – particularly in healthcare – are increasingly leveraging simulation to speed products to market and to reduce development costs,” said Sin Min Yap, vice president of marketing at ANSYS. “We see the Hall of Fame submissions growing more complex and sophisticated each year. This year’s applicants truly pushed the boundaries of simulation. These best-in-class winners illustrated how simulation can make a clear and lasting difference in research and product development.”