Automatize your Simulation toolchain and connect to powerful algorithms of robust design optimization. Address your future needs of parametric and simulation driven virtual product development with Ansys optiSLang.
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.
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. Established simulation processes and workflows capture best-practice knowledge. The software also allows for repetitive or pervasive tasks to be standardized and automated. With optiSLang’s ability to democratize simulation, even those unfamiliar with simulation can benefit.
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.
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 have to 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.
Metamodels are surrogates that learn how response variability is connected to input variability from an underlying set of high-fidelity simulations or real-system data. The reduced-order metamodel takes fractions of a second to deliver the answer that a standard simulation might take hours or days to find. Ansys optiSLang metamodeling achieves these fast results by identifying the most important input variables, automatically identifying the metamodel with the best prognosis quality, quantifying the objective forecast quality of each response and then minimizing real solver runs by using the chosen metamodel as a surrogate.
The optiSLang program determines the optimal design parameters for various multidisciplinary, non-linear and multicriteria optimization tasks. Based on the earlier steps of sensitivity analysis, optiSLang has already identified the most relevant parameters and can perform a pre-optimization on the chosen metamodel. Its wizard-based interface provides user guidance to recommend the optimizer from available algorithms such as gradient-based methods, adaptive response surface method and more, including custom optimization algorithms. You can even forward optimal design candidates from one loop to the next to streamline and standardize your work.
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 have to 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.
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Learn how you can perform product development with high economic efficiency using Ansys optiSLang’s unique capabilities to conduct sensitivity analysis, multidisciplinary optimization, robustness evaluation, reliability analysis and signal calibration using various standard and in-house solvers.
Ansys optiSLang and Minerva help you capture, automate and deploy simulation more broadly across the enterprise.
