By transforming data into actionable insight, simulation is at the center of the fourth industrial revolution.
As the physical and digital worlds converge to deliver the fourth industrial revolution, simulation is at the forefront, transforming data into actionable insight. Through automation, the Industrial Internet of Things, and digital twins, operational efficiency, reliability, durability and performance of industrial equipment will be improved. At the same time, it will drive down costs, save energy and minimize waste. Ansys simulation solutions are playing a critical role in accelerating this transformation.
Accuracy is Critical
Decades of development experience have already optimized many industrial equipment technologies. Only the most accurate simulations can provide the insights required to deliver continuous performance improvement.
A New Manufacturing Paradigm
Additive manufacturing will unleash new design concepts. Integrated simulation from design to manufacturing can eliminate the cost and material waste inherent to trial and error approaches.
Reliability and Durability in the Real World
Predicting the performance of a complex industrial system in its operating environment—from the component to the system—is key to delivering the required reliability and durability.
Operational Optimization
Physics-based digital twins can deliver the accuracy required to transform data into actionable insights for operation and maintenance optimization. In the absence of equipment sensors, simulation can develop virtual sensors.
Effective solutions require integrated multiphysics capabilities that span everything from rotating equipment such as pumps to turbomachinery with combustion and complex controls, hydraulics, aero-thermodynamics and rotodynamics. It requires an ability to support the production systems of the future that utilize additive manufacturing and the power of the industrial internet enabled by 5G connectivity that performs reliably in harsh environments.
Materials are one of the four fundamental factors (together with function, shape, and manufacturing processes) in design decisions for every product.
Materials information is important. Your company needs to invest in managing this information. And it needs to integrate that managed information with enterprise CAD and PLM systems.
A primary challenge is that success depends on collaboration between different disciplines – materials, design/CAD, product engineering, PLM and process engineering/improvement, and IT. Materials in particular has historically had limited systematic integration with the others.
Universal Robots (UR), based in Denmark, is using Ansys’ multiphysics simulation to make this possible by creating smaller, flexible, industrial collaborative robot arms called cobots. The latest model in the bunch — the UR20 — is the company’s first, next-generation cobot.
