
ANSYS SPEOS
ANSYS SPEOS upgrades predictive illumination and optical performance of systems to save on prototyping time and costs and improves your product’s efficiency.
To design and optimize your optical system easily and quickly, SPEOS combines lighting performance modeling with extensive dedicated libraries and optimizer capabilities. SPEOS allows you to study and consider the interactions of photons with mechanical geometries, to quickly create a functional illumination system for your product. SPEOS offers extensive métier-oriented features, such as optical part design, optical sensors test, HUD design and analysis and infrared modeling.
To validate your system and match your performance criteria, SPEOS combines powerful light analysis capabilities with illumination evaluation from UV to near infrared.
To see the final aspect of your product integrated into a whole system and environment, SPEOS provides a high-fidelity visualization of the final result, based on unique human vision capabilities. You can deploy these visualizations in VR to live a fully immersive review experience and make the most comprehensive design decisions.
It is the only product that offers a comprehensive approach for your optical simulation.
Designing and optimizing your system
ANSYS SPEOS provides a unique solution for optical design within a PLM/CAD environment, enabling non-experts to perform illumination design. Turn on the light in your CAD mechanical mock-up and intuitively explore the propagation of light in 3D.
- Lighting System Modeler
- Automated Optical Part Design
- HUD Design and Analysis
- Optical Sensor Test
- Far Infrared Extension
- Manufacturing Variations Simulation
Validating your system
Thanks to dedicated analysis tools, you can easily understand the interactions between light and materials. ANSYS SPEOS lets you test out a greater number of lighting concepts and “what if” scenarios quickly and easily. Improve performance by choosing the right references from the extensive library, and, more than just complying with international norms and standards, deliver better overall quality.
- Lighting System Analyzer
- Optical Design Optimizer
- Library
Deploying your system
Facilitating communication between customer and supplier and between development teams, SPEOS provides realistic visualizations of the final aspect of your product in its final environment, virtually. With a unique physics-based approach to light, taking into account the optical properties of all components and the dynamics of the human eye, you reduce the need for physical prototypes drastically.
- Lighting System Visualizer
SPEOS Capabilities
Lighting System Visualizer
Determine visual aspect, reflection, visibility and information legibility according to the human observer. On a screen or in VR, ANSYS SPEOS provides you with a unique model of physiological human eye phenomena: age-related conditions, glare, adaptation, accommodation and color deficiencies.

Optical Part Design
Create dedicated optical geometries for the design of lighting systems, with the automated generation of prisms for light guide or pillow optics for reflective and refractive parts. Design the best beam sharp cut-off reflector shape and model manufacturing constraints like drafting and milling.

See how our customers are using our software:

LiteOn
Lite-On Technologies wants to offer advanced HUD solutions to their customers, with innovative and differentiating technologies including windshield and combiner display. To this end, they are using ANSYS SPEOS for the analysis and design of their HUDs, and benefit from a streamlined solution to provide an accurate optical simulation.
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ALMECO
ANSYS SPEOS provides ALMECO with highly-realistic visualizations of its aluminum reflectors, used for a full experience in virtual reality. ALMECO’s Engineering department was able to quickly explore several use cases, and to get a precise idea of the aspect and effect of the reflector’s capacities in its final environment, in life-like conditions. This new evaluation process cuts production time thanks to early decision-making in the design process and improves and customizes the product to truly meet the customer’s needs.
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