Paul Boughton
Ansys, Inc is releasing Ansys 12.0, the latest version of the company's engineering simulation platform and integrated technology for supporting simulation-driven product development. In nearly every industry, engineering simulation has become a key strategy in developing more innovative products, reducing development and manufacturing costs, and accelerating the time to market. Forward-looking companies are now embarking on new strategies to gain more from their investment in simulation. Smart Engineering Simulation from Ansys 12.0 enables this progression by dramatically compressing design and analysis cycles, enabling parametric studies and design optimisation across multiple physics domains, increasing the accuracy and completeness of virtual prototypes, and capturing and reusing simulation processes and data.
Claimed to be the most comprehensive engineering simulation system available, Ansys 12.0 supports fast product design and validation in a complete, highly usable virtual environment that captures complex and coupled physical phenomena, thereby providing a high degree of confidence in product designs. Ansys 12.0 is said to allow engineers to access an unequalled depth and breadth of technology to compress their design processes, and to create innovative products both rapidly and cost-effectively, while also reducing the time and money invested in physical prototype development and testing.
Jim Cashman, president and CEO of Ansys, Inc, comments: "In today's highly competitive markets and challenging economic climate, using virtual prototyping to reduce development costs and time to market is not a choice — it is a requirement. The pressures of global competition, complex customer requirements and shorter development schedules are forcing engineering organisations to rely on virtual prototyping to 'get it right the first time' — and launch products with a higher probability of market success."
At the foundation of Ansys 12.0 is the Ansys Workbench 2.0 platform, a flexible simulation environment that allows engineers to easily set up, visualise and manage simulations. The Ansys Workbench environment captures and automates repeatable processes, providing dramatic productivity gains and enabling engineers to arrive at better designs faster. Engineers can easily investigate multiple 'what if?' scenarios, optimise their designs across multiple physical phenomena and design for six sigma.
Ansys 12.0 is claimed to offer an unequalled technical breadth that allows customers to explore a complete range of dynamic behaviour, from frequency response to large overall motion of nonlinear, flexible multibody systems. The suite encompasses a broad solver portfolio that spans a full range of functionality, from structural mechanics to fluid dynamics, and from thermal analysis and electromagnetics. The company says that not only do the individual capabilities of Ansys 12.0 represent the best in class, but they are also virtually seamless in their connectivity to one another. This connectivity enables Ansys 12.0 to deliver an "unmatched multiphysics capability that supports the most accurate and realistic simulations of product performance in the real world." Ansys 12.0 technology allows users to set up and manage coupled physics simulations with drag-and-drop ease. Together with its existing coupled physics technology, Ansys 12.0 establishes a smarter approach to comprehensive multiphysics simulations.
With the introduction of the world-class fluid flow solver Ansys Fluent into the Ansys Workbench platform, CFD (computational fluid dynamics) practitioners can now leverage a parametric and persistent modelling environment and gain access to key enabling technologies such as bi-directional CAD integration, advanced meshing and powerful post-processing.
Highly scalable and customisable, Ansys 12.0 allows individual customers to implement best-in-class technologies at levels appropriate for their own simulation needs. Ansys 12.0 can be configured for advanced or professional users, deployed to a single user or enterprise, and executed on laptops or parallel computer clusters.
For more information, visit www.ansys.com
Claimed to be the most comprehensive engineering simulation system available, Ansys 12.0 supports fast product design and validation in a complete, highly usable virtual environment that captures complex and coupled physical phenomena, thereby providing a high degree of confidence in product designs. Ansys 12.0 is said to allow engineers to access an unequalled depth and breadth of technology to compress their design processes, and to create innovative products both rapidly and cost-effectively, while also reducing the time and money invested in physical prototype development and testing.
Jim Cashman, president and CEO of Ansys, Inc, comments: "In today's highly competitive markets and challenging economic climate, using virtual prototyping to reduce development costs and time to market is not a choice — it is a requirement. The pressures of global competition, complex customer requirements and shorter development schedules are forcing engineering organisations to rely on virtual prototyping to 'get it right the first time' — and launch products with a higher probability of market success."
At the foundation of Ansys 12.0 is the Ansys Workbench 2.0 platform, a flexible simulation environment that allows engineers to easily set up, visualise and manage simulations. The Ansys Workbench environment captures and automates repeatable processes, providing dramatic productivity gains and enabling engineers to arrive at better designs faster. Engineers can easily investigate multiple 'what if?' scenarios, optimise their designs across multiple physical phenomena and design for six sigma.
Ansys 12.0 is claimed to offer an unequalled technical breadth that allows customers to explore a complete range of dynamic behaviour, from frequency response to large overall motion of nonlinear, flexible multibody systems. The suite encompasses a broad solver portfolio that spans a full range of functionality, from structural mechanics to fluid dynamics, and from thermal analysis and electromagnetics. The company says that not only do the individual capabilities of Ansys 12.0 represent the best in class, but they are also virtually seamless in their connectivity to one another. This connectivity enables Ansys 12.0 to deliver an "unmatched multiphysics capability that supports the most accurate and realistic simulations of product performance in the real world." Ansys 12.0 technology allows users to set up and manage coupled physics simulations with drag-and-drop ease. Together with its existing coupled physics technology, Ansys 12.0 establishes a smarter approach to comprehensive multiphysics simulations.
With the introduction of the world-class fluid flow solver Ansys Fluent into the Ansys Workbench platform, CFD (computational fluid dynamics) practitioners can now leverage a parametric and persistent modelling environment and gain access to key enabling technologies such as bi-directional CAD integration, advanced meshing and powerful post-processing.
Highly scalable and customisable, Ansys 12.0 allows individual customers to implement best-in-class technologies at levels appropriate for their own simulation needs. Ansys 12.0 can be configured for advanced or professional users, deployed to a single user or enterprise, and executed on laptops or parallel computer clusters.
For more information, visit www.ansys.com
