Ansys Minerva, powered by Aras, is a knowledge management application that secures critical simulation data, and provides simulation process and decision support to simulation teams across geographies and functional silos.
Available for both on-premise and cloud deployment, Minerva delivers immediate benefits by connecting simulation and optimization to customers’ existing ecosystem of tools and processes.

Capture and Manage Knowledge
- Rapid access to insights/information for informed decision- making
- Traceability — “who, when, where, what” of simulation data
- Optimization, productivity, repeatability and data quality
Connect and Visualize
- Data search and reuse
- Data visualization and reporting
- Open and vendor-neutral architecture for interoperability of processes
- Multi-user, enterprise-level collaboration with ANSYS Cloud integration
Deploy and Learn
- Best practices capture and deployment
- Scalable and configurable
- On-prem/cloud deployment
- AI-based modeling of cause and effect to compute outcomes
- Long-term search and retrieval of archived simulations
Capabilities
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Simulation Process & Data Management
Connect simulation for life cycle traceability and to enable collaboration and decision support.
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Hybrid Deployment and Simulation Apps
Composable on-prem and multi-cloud management for optimized simulation workloads.
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Interoperability
Standards-based connectivity to engineering applications and life cycle systems.
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Multiphysics Process Integration & Robust Design
Integration/automation of chained data flows and design space exploration for optimal performance parameters.
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Integration with ANSYS GRANTA MI Materials Data Management
Smart materials decisions via reference databases, materials research and test calibration.
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