Ansys Twin Builder

Create and Deploy Digital Twin Models

Ansys Twin Builder is an open solution that allows engineers to create simulation-based digital twins with Hybrid Analytics

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Build and validate, deploy and scale Hybrid Digital Twin Models

Build, Validate, Deploy and Scale Hybrid Digital Twin

An analytics-driven, simulation-based digital twin is a connected, virtual replica of an in-service physical asset — in the form of an integrated multidomain system simulation —that mirrors the life and experience of the asset. Hybrid digital twins enable system design and optimization and predictive maintenance, and they optimize industrial asset management. By implementing Ansys Twin Builder, you can improve top-line revenue, manage bottom-line costs and both gain and retain a competitive advantage.

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Quick Specs

Ansys Twin Builder enables you to quickly create a digital twin–a connected replica of an in-service asset. This allows for enhanced lifecycle management and true predictive maintenance, saving costs to help maintain a competitive advantage.

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Build and Validate System Models and Digital Twins

Deploy Digital Twins on IIoT Platforms

Easily Scale Deployment with IIoT Platforms

Flexible Licensing

Hybrid Analytics

July 2023

What's New

We launched Ansys 2023 R2, which extends its digital twin offering with enhanced fusion capabilities for transient data and improved post-processing for Hybrid Analytics.

Unleash the Potential of DT with Hybrid Analytics

Fusion capabilities for transient data
Enhanced Post-processing for Hybrid Analytics
New APIs for Container-based Simulation

Automation, Speed & Accuracy for ROM creation

Improved ROM Visualization using STL projection on mesh
Web-based Standalone ROM Viewer
Improved Dynamic ROM performance and behavior

Enhanced Solver, Model Library and User Experience

TB-Maxwell Parallel Transient Co-simulation
New Fuel Cell and Thermal Power Libraries
New Twin Builder Student version

Applications

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Battery Management Systems

Ansys offers an integrated solution for battery management system (BMS) design and development that allows for risk-free virtual testing.

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Electrified powertrain system integration

Vehicle Powertrain Simulation Software

Integrate highly complex, electric vehicle and hybrid-electric vehicle powertrains and their subsystems and components with Ansys simulation software.

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Industrial Flow Networks

Leverage Ansys Digital Twin for your industrial flow network. Integrate model-based design, simulation, and actual asset performance.

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Case Studies

KTM Goes Wide Open on Thermal Management of its E-Ride Traction Battery Design with Help from Ansys

In the spirit of no-trace off-road adventure, KTM, a European motorcycle manufacturer, is focused on taking electrification to the trails with its E-Ride dirt bike.

Unlocking the Value of Digital Twins with Ansys Twin Builder

This infographic details the amount of time and money you can save, along with new revenue streams you can generate, using Ansys Twin Builder.

Managing Large-Scale Battery Systems

Battery management systems (BMS) are essential components that leverage embedded software for real-time monitoring and control of rechargeable batteries in complex applications.

Digital Twins: Making the Vision Achievable

Learn about Ansys' best-in-class solution for creating, validating, and deploying digital twins in this white paper.

Digital Twin Prevents Drain on Battery Pack Simulation Time

See how working with Ansys tools such as Twin Builder can reduce the amount of time battery pack and thermal management simulation takes.

Complex Battery System Storage Modeling

Learn how Twin Builder’s ROM technology also enables Wärtsilä to reduce simulation time from one day to 10 minutes with a high-fidelity representation of the CFD model, resulting in faster product development.

Ansys Twin Builder creates connected, virtual replicas of an in-service physical asset

Ansys Twin Builder is a uniquely open solution that allows engineers to create digital twins–connected, virtual replicas of in-service physical assets. Digital twins enable true predictive maintenance, allowing for cost savings, and the proactive optimization of an asset’s operation. Ansys Twin Builder lets you build, validate and deploy the twin, potentially cutting the time required to create an accurate product model in half. Once deployed, users can expect a 25% increase in product performance, and maintenance cost savings of up to 20% over the product’s lifetime.

Key Features

Ansys Twin Builder features a wide range of capabilities for modeling and simulation of in-service assets.

Multidomain Systems Modeler
Extensive 0D Application-Specific Libraries
Third-party Tool Integration
Reduced Order Models (ROMs)
Embedded Software Integration
Multidomain Systems Solver with Integrated Post-Processing
Rapid HMI Prototyping
System Optimization Tools
XIL Integration
IIoT Connectivity and Twin Verification and Validation (V&V)
Twin Deployer
Hybrid Analytics
Export Web App from Twin Deployer

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Multidomain Systems Modeler

Compose your system using multiple domains and languages. Create hierarchical schematics of complex power electronic circuits and multidomain systems. Model with standard languages and exchange formats.

Create hierarchical schematics of complex power electronic circuits and multidomain systems. Model with standard languages and exchange formats.

Extensive 0D Application-Specific Libraries

Twin Builder's built-in libraries provide a rich collection of components used to create complete system models.

Twin Builder models are easily parameterized to replicate physical component behavior. They include analog and power electronics components; control blocks and sensors; mechanical components; hydraulic components; digital and logic blocks; application-specific libraries for aerospace electrical networks, electric vehicles and power systems; and characterized manufacturers' components. Twin Builder supports the Modelica Standard Library and Modelica libraries offered by Modelon AB, including libraries for hydraulics, pneumatics, liquid cooling, heat exchangers and thermal power.

Third-party Tool Integration

Twin Builder provides leading support for the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) standard, enabling you to combine models from a variety of sources into a full system description.

With over 100 tools now officially supporting FMI model export and cosimulation, including GT-SUITE, CarSim, Amesim and Dymola, full-system models can be assembled in Twin Builder to take advantage of its high-performing solvers and links with Ansys 3D physics. Additional interfaces allow the direct integration of C/C++ code and MathWorks Simulink models. Twin Builder models can also be exported for use in FMI-compliant environments.

Reduced Order Models (ROMs)

Twin Builder couples with Ansys' physics-based simulation technology to bring the detail of 3D simulations, as reduced order models (ROMs), into the systems context to generate accurate and efficient system-level models.

Twin Builder uses ROMs produced from Ansys structural, fluids, electromagnetics and semiconductor products to model mechanical assemblies; electromagnetic actuators and machines; circuit and cable parasitics; thermal networks; and signal integrity. 3D ROMs can be created in Workbench and imported into Twin Builder. ROMs can also be imported from a variety of third-party tools, such as optiSLang. Co-simulation with 3D physics solvers preserves the full accuracy of FEA and CFD for modeling fluid components and flow networks, rigid and flexible-body mechanical assemblies, and electric machines and actuators. Get an easier access to all ROMs in one easy place with the ROM ribbon and gallery.

Embedded Software Integration

Twin Builder readily integrates embedded control software and HMI design to support model-in -the-loop and software-in-the-loop flows for testing the performance of embedded controls with models of the physical system.

Tight coupling with Ansys SCADE Suite and SCADE Display permits interactive monitoring and debugging during software execution. Custom code and third- party controls can be incorporated into a Twin Builder system model through standard interfaces (e.g., FMI) or a robust API.

Multidomain Systems Solver with Integrated Post-Processing

Twin Builder solver technology has been proven through decades of industrial use for multidomain system simulation.

With adaptive time-step controls and sophisticated solver synchronization capabilities, Twin Builder performs efficient and accurate simulation of continuous-time, discrete-time and analog/mixed-signal behaviors. Twin Builder simulations can be executed on high-performance compute resources, and multi-run analyses can be executed in parallel to increase simulation throughout.

Rapid HMI Prototyping

Twin Builder includes a rapid prototyper that enhances the simulation experience with powerful, easy-to-design, interactive graphical panels.

This enables you to create interactive panels using predefined widgets (buttons, sliders, etc.) to interact with the application under test. It empowers model simulation. Early requirements validation is made possible through a variety of features.

System Optimization

System performance can be optimized based on cost functions of specified design variables, using built-in algorithms or in connection with Ansys DesignXplorer and Ansys optiSLang.

Twin Builder provides a full environment for testing system behavior, allowing basic simulation experiments to be performed in the steady-state, time and frequency domains.

XIL Integration

Different techniques exist in Twin Builder for integrating software with a physical model, including: cosimulation for model-in-the-loop (MiL) design and tuning of control strategies, and code import for software-in-the-loop (SiL) validation of the real embedded code in the virtual system.

Twin Builder provides links with popular embedded control design tools, including the Ansys SCADE tool suite and MathWorks Simulink.

IIoT Connectivity and Twin Verification and Validation (V&V)

With Twin Builder, you can easily connect your digital twin to various IIoT platforms, to access test and real-time data.

Twin Builder's built-in APIs provide seamless connection to Microsoft^® Azure^® IoT, Microsoft Azure Digital Twins , PTC ThingWorx^®, SAP Predictive Asset Insights, Rockwell Automation Emulate 3D and Rockwell Studio 5000. Twin Builder can also connect to all other IIoT platforms, including homegrown varieties, allowing you to perform predictive maintenance on your physical asset. You can also easily deploy digital twins with Ansys Twin Deployer. Twin Deployer helps you significantly reduce deployment time by performing V&V on twins, and easily deploying the twin using cloud, edge or offline computing resources. Twin Builder also supports generating images from deployed twins.

Twin Deployer

Ansys Twin Deployer allows performing validation and verification on Digital Twins to significantly reduce deployment time.

User can build their dedicated library in Twin Deployer to easily reuse and manage your most common components. Easily perform parametric sweeps studies on twin and FMUs in Twin Deployer. With Ansys Twin Deployer, Inspect 3D visualizations with ROM Viewer during simulation, thanks to ROM visualization generation capability.

Hybrid Analytics

Calibrate and tune your simulation model parameters by combining physical and virtual sensors to match data with your simulation outputs.

Fusion Modeling, a new capability to Twin Builder Hybrid Analytics, accurately models the residual between model and prediction, allowing users to capture and include any remaining or missing physics into the digital twin.

Export Web App from Twin Deployer

Develop quick web application prototype by exporting Web App from Twin Deployer.

View and interact with simple web application to run simulation on a browser
View embedded 3D images and ROM visualizations on a browser
Easily scale web application to production by refining available source code

TWIN BUILDER RESOURCES & EVENTS

Featured Events & Webinars

Webinar Series

Digital Twins Webinar Series

Build, Validate and Deploy Simulation-Based Digital Twins

During these 60-minute sessions, our experts will demonstrate the power of Ansys Twin Builder to Build, Validate and Deploy Simulation-Based Digital Twins in various Industries and Applications.

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On Demand Webinar

Harnessing the Power of The Twin Builder Fluid Power Library to Quickly Build Systems Models and Digital Twins

Learn about the ANSYS Twin Builder Fluid Power Library for industrial applications from drills and gearboxes to automotive suspension systems and aircraft landing gear.

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On Demand Webinar

Building Digital Twins with an End-to-End Workflow

This webinar spotlights how Ansys Twin Builder’s unique workflow helps you build, validate and deploy simulation-based digital twins with a real-world industrial application.

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Case Studies

Creating a Digital Twin for a Pump

Technologies now make it possible to integrate simulation with products as they exist and operate in the real world. This enables companies to optimize operations and maintenance, as well as further accelerate the new-product development process.

Ansys Wins Prestigious Industrial Internet of Things Award

Fourth annual Internet of Things Breakthrough Awards recognizes Ansys’ digital twin simulation solution.

Unlocking the Value of Digital Twins with Ansys Twin Builder - Infographic

This infographic details the amount of time and money you can save, along with new revenue streams you can generate, using Ansys Twin Builder.

How to Create a Digital Twin

Learn how Ozen Engineering used Ansys Twin Builder to create a digital twin of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Complex Battery System Storage Modeling

Digital Twin Prevents Drain on Battery Pack Simulation Time

See how working with Ansys tools such as Twin Builder can reduce the amount of time battery pack and thermal management simulation takes.

KTM Goes Wide Open on Thermal Management of its E-Ride Traction Battery Design with Help from Ansys

In the spirit of no-trace off-road adventure, KTM, a European motorcycle manufacturer, is focused on taking electrification to the trails with its E-Ride dirt bike.

edge computing: New Support for Digital Twins

As edge computing and other emerging technologies continue to increase the global adoption of digital twins, Ansys can help customers make the right choices as they embark on the digital twin journey.

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Digital Twin Prevents Drain on Battery Pack Simulation Time - Article

Kärcher Cleans Up with Ansys Twin Builder

Fast Tracking Next-Gen Electric Traction Motors

Digital Twins: Making the Vision Achievable

Videos

Ansys PTC Digital Twin Motor Demo

Watch this video to see how the partnership between Ansys and PTC makes it easy to create a digital twin

Ansys Video

Can simulation and digital twin keep up with C.A.S.E.?

Ansys Video

Internet of Things Show: Ansys Twin Builder Integration with Azure Digital Twins

Webinars on Demand

Virtual Validation for Accelerated EV Development Using Ansys Twin Builder

Building Digital Twins with an End-to-End Workflow

Ansys Twin Builder 2020 R1: Examining Latest Enhancements and the Twin Builder Battery Wizard

Harnessing the Power of The Twin Builder Fluid Power Library to Quickly Build Systems Models and Digital Twins

VW Motorsport Presents: Battery Simulation - An Essential Technology for the ID. R at Nürburgring and the Record at Pikes Peak

Efficient Deployment Workflows in Twin Deployer: Best Practices and Capabilities

Product Simulation Models Incorporated into Digital Twin Applications to Accelerate Monitoring and Service

Modeling Hydraulic Systems With Ansys Twin Builder

Ansys Twin Builder for Heating and Cooling Systems

Fault Injection in Electrified Powertrain Systems

Blogs

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Manufacturing Digital Twins Can Help Prevent Line Change Disruptions

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BY : SAMEER KHER

Ansys and Microsoft Work to Improve Digital Twin User Experiences

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Optimize Industrial Automation Systems Using Digital Twins

How to Build a Digital Twin from a Systems Simulation

ENGIE Lab CRIGEN and Ansys Accelerate Zero-Carbon Energy

How Simulation Enables Continuous Manufacturing

What is a Digital Twin in Manufacturing?

Supported by Ansys, HSD Mechatronics Puts a New Spin on Product Innovation

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Ansys Twin Builder

Create and Deploy Digital Twin Models

Build, Validate, Deploy and Scale Hybrid Digital Twin

Quick Specs

What's New

Unleash the Potential of DT with Hybrid Analytics

Automation, Speed & Accuracy for ROM creation

Enhanced Solver, Model Library and User Experience

Applications

Case Studies

Ansys Twin Builder creates connected, virtual replicas of an in-service physical asset

Key Features

Multidomain Systems Modeler

Extensive 0D Application-Specific Libraries

Third-party Tool Integration

Reduced Order Models (ROMs)

Embedded Software Integration

Multidomain Systems Solver with Integrated Post-Processing

Rapid HMI Prototyping

System Optimization

XIL Integration

IIoT Connectivity and Twin Verification and Validation (V&V)

Twin Deployer

Hybrid Analytics

Export Web App from Twin Deployer

Featured Events & Webinars

Case Studies

White Papers & Articles

Videos

Watch this video to see how the partnership between Ansys and PTC makes it easy to create a digital twin

Can simulation and digital twin keep up with C.A.S.E.?

Internet of Things Show: Ansys Twin Builder Integration with Azure Digital Twins

Webinars on Demand

Blogs

Ansys software is accessible

See What Ansys Can Do For You

See What Ansys Can Do For You

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