Orchestrate and automate your simulation toolchains and connect to state-of-the art optimization algorithms to perform parametric design studies and better understand your designs.
Ansys optiSLang is a constantly evolving, leading-edge answer to the challenges posed by CAE-based Robust Design Optimization (RDO). Its state-of-the-art algorithms efficiently and automatically search for the most robust design configuration, eliminating the slow, manual process that used to define RDO. With optiSLang as your process integration and design optimization solution, you’ll make the right decisions sooner.
Accelerate searches for the best and most robust design configuration by automating the search process with interactive visualization and AI technologies. State-of-the-art algorithms for design exploration, optimization, robustness and reliability analysis let you make better decisions with less effort using design optimization software.
Ansys optiSLang enables a simulation of loads based on fast and cost-effective measurable signals for an efficient assessment of changes to the drivetrain configuration without the repetition of expensive driving tests.
January 2021
Set up and run simulations in Ansys Discovery for a wide range of industries and applications faster and easier than ever before with new multiphysics capabilities, performance improvements and dynamic collaboration updates.
Engineers can create sophisticated toolchains using the new nodes for Ansys LS-Dyna, Ansys SpaceClaim, Nastran and Ansys ModelCenter and improved nodes for Ansys Electronics Desktop and Ansys Workbench.
Ansys optiSLang continues to deliver the best of design understanding and optimization algorithms through a partnership with Probaligence, which provides AI/ML technology to increase the breadth of state-of-the-art optimization.
Simulation and optimization experts can build automated workflows, create apps from these automations, and test their apps locally on a desktop before deploying.
Ansys optiSLang is a process integration and design optimization solution that automates key aspects of the robust design optimization process. optiSLang connects multiple CAx tools and different physics into a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to optimization. Additionally, it enables simulations processes to be standardized and shared, giving new hires and simulation novices more direct access to simulation. With this powerful toolset, your entire team of engineers and designers can gain a better, more complete understanding of their design and make the right decisions sooner.
optiSLang supports integration with a variety of CAx programs and offers powerful RDO tools to gain critical insights faster
Ansys optiSLang offers GUI-supported binary interfacing with major CAE tools used in virtual product development. Other tools can be connected via scripting, text-based interfaces or custom integrations. You get support for tools including CAD, CAE, scripting, desktop applications, repositories, databases and in-house solvers. With support for high-performance computing strategies, you can submit jobs using your queuing system or Ansys-provided submitting capabilities. Regardless of which environment you choose, optiSLang provides the same settings and dialogs.
Process automation and integration — as well as access to the best possible parametric simulation models — are the keys to successful CAE-based parametric studies. Our graphical user interface provides easy-to-understand charts and control panels that enable full access and traceability of the complete workflow.
Simulation plays a big role in understanding products and processes, especially complex ones. Parameter-based variation analysis gives you insight into how your design behaves under variability. Multidisciplinary optimization tasks often require a huge number of variables, and it can be difficult to know where to focus. optiSLang’s algorithms and correlation analysis automatically identify the most salient variables, reducing the number of design variables you must worry about. The program’s sensitivity analysis also creates the basis to appropriately formulate the optimization task with respect to choice and number of objectives or possible constraints, helping you quickly zero in on the best approximation model.
Reduced Order Modeling — Ansys optiSLang builds metamodels for rapid feedback and robust design analysis in a fraction of the time it would take to run a simulation to predict a certain design.
Design optimization and parameter identification — Ansys optiSLang’s powerful algorithms and automated workflows build on earlier steps of sensitivity analysis to provide a wizard-driven decision tree to recommend the optimizer with default settings.
To allow cooperation in multiphysical simulation and multidisciplinary optimization, the automation and publishing of workflows for several repetitive tasks, as well as simulation data management become essential, like:
A powerful solution to overcome these challenges is the combination of Ansys optiSLang and Ansys Minerva.
Similar to sensitivity analysis, robustness analysis identifies the most important scattering variables and offers a decision tree to select the most appropriate algorithms to verify robustness and reliability for your product or situation. This is key for designs that must meet high safety or quality requirements with event probabilities of less than 1 out of 1,000. A reliability analysis can quantify the probability of exceeding a limit and prove it to be less than the accepted value. optiSLang’s powerful algorithms help ensure product quality, minimizing scrap, recall and the risk of legal action.
optiSLang PACKAGING & LICENSING
The Ansys optiSLang premium and enterprise licensing categories give you the flexibility to choose the product that best fits your needs. While the premium offering gives you access to a broad set of simulation workflow automation and optimization capabilities, an enterprise license is required to build apps, leverage AI for metamodeling, and conduct a much higher number of concurrent variations.
Below is a breakdown of how concurrent variations work with each license type:
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| Algorithms for design point studies | ||
| Optimization & sensitivity analysis | ||
| Robust design & reliability analysis | ||
| Model calibration | ||
| Process Integration | ||
| Build and automate workflows | ||
| Integrate 3rd party tools | ||
| Interface | ||
| Embedded in ANSYS Workbench | ||
| Web app building | ||
| Reduced Order Modeling | ||
| Scalar meta-modeling (incl. test data) | ||
| Signal/Field meta-modeling (incl. sensor & 3D scan data) | ||
| Modeling of imperfect structures for UQ | ||
| AI for meta-modeling | ||
| Variations (design points) | ||
| Concurrent design point variations | 1+3=4 | 1+7=8 |
OPTISLANG RESOURCES & EVENTS
Ansys optiSLang Webinar Series
Each of these webinars will consider specific applications to demonstrate the core capabilities of Ansys optiSLang such as sensitivity analysis, design exploration, optimization, robustness, and reliability analysis in the context of various CAE tools.
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