Create a Simulation Digital Thread

Amplify the benefit of simulation throughout product development. To bring complex products to market faster.

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Connect Simulation Today to Transform Tomorrow

Ansys Connect is a toolset for creating the simulation digital thread. This links simulation to the processes, tools, and data used across product development. Amplifying the benefit of your physics solver by running more simulations for more users, helping bring more complex products to market faster.

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Ansys Minerva

Connect

Ansys Minerva, powered by Aras, is an enterprise-level, purpose-built simulation process and data management solution that enhances engineering productivity with an intuitive, easy-to-use, web-based user interface catering to all simulation workflows. Minerva is vendor-neutral and allows integration with a host of Ansys and third-party simulation and PLM software.

Access and reuse simulation data
Well-coordinated simulation process management
HPC job submission and data management
Project awareness with Role-based dashboards
Access to simulation insights by non-experts
Synchronize and exchange data with enterprise integration

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Ansys ModelCenter

Connect

Ansys ModelCenter empowers engineers to create and automate multi-tool workflows, optimize product designs, and enable Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) by connecting requirements to engineering.

Perform systems level conceptual design studies
Verify requirements using any engineering analysis tool
Simulate complex system behaviors predictably
Connect any analysis to the digital thread

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GRANTA MI Enterprise

Materials

The leading system for materials information, GRANTA MI Enterprise allows you to develop and protect your materials, save time, drive innovation, cut costs and eliminate risk.

Ensure traceability of additive manufacturing data
Data includes powders, builds, machine parameters and more
Provide Additive Manufacturing data to help optimize

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Ansys Granta MI Pro

Materials

Fast-start Materials Data Management

User-friendly Materials Database
Compare materials properties
Integration with leading CAD and CAE products
2,600+ Materials Datasets pre-loaded

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Ansys optiSLang

Connect

Ansys optiSLang is an enterprise-level process integration and design optimization solution that allows vendor-neutral process integration for evaluation of optimal product design alternatives for cost and performance benefits.

Simulation Tool Chain Automation
Better understanding with design exploration
AI/ML based design optimization
Robustness evaluation and risk quantification

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Selector

Materials

Smarter Materials Choices

Intelligent materials selection
Comprehensive Advanced Materials Data
Find similar materials
Export simulation-ready data

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July 2023

What's New

Speed up R&D with Ansys 2023 R2 by better connecting processes, data, and technology into a simulation digital thread.

New features build on SPDM, optimization, MBSE, and material intelligence capabilities to better integrate simulation into the broader Digital Engineering infrastructure.

Webinars

Ansys 2023 R2: Ansys optiSLang What’s New

The new optiSLang 2023 R2 release adds new user Interface capabilities making it easier to integrate multiphysics workflows for the typical use cases and provide more flexibility and openness for advanced scripting and customization purposes.

Ansys 2023 R2: How to Prepare for New PFAS Regulations in 2024

If you are a user of Granta MI or want to understand more about how it can be used to create the authoritative source of truth for your materials – find out more at our 2023 R2 release webinar.

Ansys 2023 R2: Granta MI What’s New

If you are a user of Granta MI or want to understand more about how to create an authoritative source of truth for your materials – find out more at our 2023 R2 release webinar.

Toolset for Simulation Digital Thread

Ansys Connect is the only open ecosystem-based solution using best-in-class software for each capability: materials, optimization, MBSE and SPDM. Ansys Connect enables pervasive simulation across more of the product development process.

Enable MBSE

Enable model-based systems engineering by connecting requirements to analysis.

Connect your systems architecture model to any engineering simulation and analysis
Explore performance, cost reliability and risk trade-studies
Manage complexity, reduce risk, and get to market quickly

Select Materials

Smarter materials choices with best-in-class tools & data.

Intelligent materials selection
Access 250,000+ advanced materials data

Manage Materials Data

Marketing-leading materials information management.

Create your authoritative source of materials data
Access 250,000+ advanced materials data

Manage Simulation Processes

Assign, own, and perform end-to-end process management for simulation.

Configurable, role-based dashboards
Project manage CAE activities with tasks, work request and projects.

Manage Simulation Data

Search, visualize and reuse important simulation data across your organization.

Create your authoritative source of simulation data
Visualize and track data with state-of-the-art configuration management.

Automate Simulation

Minimize non-value added, repetitive tasks by automating simulation workflows.

GUI-supported interface with major CAE tools
Access and trace the complete Multiphysics workflow

Optimize Design

Work out the simulation parameter subset that makes the biggest impact on product performance.

Perform sensitivity analysis to scan the parameter space with Design of Experiment
Optimize with leading edge AI-based optimization algorithms

Open eco-system

Ansys Connect is the only open ecosystem-based solution using best-in-class software for each capability.

Open-ecosystem CAD, CAE and PLM integration
Vendor-neutral framework

Applications

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Battery Simulation

Ansys battery modeling and simulation solutions use multiphysics to help you maximize battery performance and safety while reducing cost and testing time.

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Electric Motor Design

Ansys electric motor design software progresses from concept design to detailed electromagnetics, thermal and mechanical analysis of electric motors.

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Featured Webinars

On Demand Webinar

Lamborghini Shares Best Practices in Materials Data Management

Discover the key milestones they have already reached and understand their vision for integrating with other engineering systems on future development projects.

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On Demand Webinar

Ansys optiSLang: Process Integration, Variation Analysis and Robust Design Optimization

This webinar will demonstrate how design space exploration and optimization can slash development time and speed the evaluation of optimal product design alternatives for cost and performance.

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On Demand Webinar

Using Digital Transformation to Streamline Medical Device Development

Discover how our technologies can enable digital transformation for the healthcare industry to support streamlining medical device development.

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CASE STUDIES

Driving Multi-million-dollar Savings through Enterprise-wide Materials Information Management at Rolls-Royce

Having fast, reliable access to all relevant materials information is important for Rolls-Royce engineers who need accurate and statistically valid property data as they seek to push materials to their limits in a highly regulated, safety-conscious environment.

Ansys + HEAD Tennis Rackets

Robust evaluation and optimization of HEAD tennis rackets with multiple input and objective parameters using Ansys optiSLang®.

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Ansys + Ariane Group

Ariane Group GmbH developed a simulation procedure to reduce the effort on full scale hardware testing. optiSLang was used for parameter identification and optimization of Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue (TMF) panels representing in design and size one part of the combustion chamber of the Ariane 6 European launch vehicle.

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Ansys + Mercedes Benz

Mercedes-Benz Validates ADAS Using Reliability Analysis Methods in Ansys optiSLang.

White Paper

The Business Case for Material Intelligence

If your organization makes or designs products, it uses materials. Information about these materials is vital, often with multi-million dollar impact. This white paper explores why this is, with materials information management increasingly established as a core engineering technology. Includes extensive case study and return on investment information.

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Model Calibration of a Railway Vehicle

Amplify the Value of Simulation via More Effective Data and Process Management

VIDEOS

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Use of Ansys Fluent Parametric Workflow

BLOGS

Blog

Optimizing Design Optimization Efforts

There are many different components of that design that one might subject to other simulations. Still, each component comprises materials — and reflects design decisions — that could be modified if the outcomes of these stress simulations are outside of acceptable specifications.

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Simulation Sets New Lightweight Coil Spring Designs in Motion

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Create a Simulation Digital Thread

Amplify the benefit of simulation throughout product development. To bring complex products to market faster.

Connect Simulation Today to Transform Tomorrow

Connect Products

Ansys Minerva

Ansys ModelCenter

GRANTA MI Enterprise

Ansys Granta MI Pro

Ansys optiSLang

Selector

What's New

Webinars

Toolset for Simulation Digital Thread

Enable MBSE

Select Materials

Manage Materials Data

Manage Simulation Processes

Manage Simulation Data

Automate Simulation

Optimize Design

Open eco-system

Applications

Featured Webinars

CASE STUDIES

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VIDEOS

Use of Ansys Fluent Parametric Workflow

BLOGS

See What Ansys Can Do For You

See What Ansys Can Do For You

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