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 2023
In the 2023 R1 release, optiSLang comes packed with new capabilities that increase engineering productivity and accelerate innovation. Engineers can boost efficiency with 98% faster* design time and ‘one-click’ optimization using the latest algorithms in optiSLang. Users will also learn how to access optiSLang in Ansys Fluent now with 2023 R1 updates.
We've opened new horizons for optiSLang use with faster workflows that enable optimizations and reliability analysis with more parameters, loops, and designs. The power of optiSLang can help in more applications such as electrification and autonomous drive.
The new optimization algorithm results from the collaboration across our Design Optimization Team. This hybrid optimization strategy is an AI-assisted optimizer that automatically combines different optimization algorithms and MOP technology. Through this, it requires minimal user knowledge and interaction. While still enabling insightful use of data, it requires only one setting: How many design points do you want to run?
Making optiSLang’s algorithms easily accessible in Ansys flagships solvers, you can now use Design of Experiments algorithms directly in Fluent. Plus, optiSLang’s concurrent licensing for parametric analysis can be used in Fluent. The “open in optiSLang” option enables more complex workflows, optimization in optiSLang, or analysis in optiSLang’s postprocessor.
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 allow you to choose what fits your needs best. The premium offering will enable users access to a broad simulation workflow automation and optimization capabilities. Any user requires an enterprise license to build apps, leverage AI for metamodeling, and conduct a much higher number of concurrent variations.
| Capabilities | Pro | Premium | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Studies | |||
| Classic DOE | |||
| Sampling & Sensitivity Analysis | |||
| Robust Design Optimization | |||
| Classic scalar meta-modeling | |||
| Reliability Analysis | |||
| Process Integration and Workflow Orchestration | |||
| Embedded in Ansys | |||
| Build and automate workflows | |||
| Integrate 3rd party tools | |||
| App generation | |||
| Advanced Meta Modeling & AI/ML | |||
| Field meta-modeling (signals, 2D/3D) | |||
| UQ for Signals, 2D/3D | |||
| AI/ML for RD0 | |||
| Concurrent Solver Variant Licensing | |||
| Solver variations for parametric design study | +3 | +7 |
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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