Space logistics startup The Exploration Company is advancing sustainable space exploration by leveraging Ansys simulation solutions to develop its modular and reusable space vehicle, Nyx. With a methane-based propulsion system, Nyx will begin by flying to stations in Earth’s orbit to deliver technologies for advanced research in areas such as microgravity, which has applications in […]

Synopsys with Ansys may be too big to be acquired by a design software company. By Roopinder Tara | Director of content at engineering.com Synopsys’ acquisition of Ansys for $35B, expected to close the first half of 2025, will be the biggest deal ever in the design and engineering software industry, dwarfing the $4.5B acquisition…

By Shawn Wasserman The first, of likely many, AI-powered simulation tools to come in 2024! Disclaimer: Shawn Wasserman is a former employee of Ansys and holds minor stocks in the organization. Engineering.com predicted that 2024 will bring an AI revolution within the engineering simulation software space. Though announced in early 2023, Ansys SimAI is the…

The latest release from Ansys 2023 R2 enables distributed engineering teams with new technologies and improved performance to drive industry innovation forward. It combines an exceptional range of enhanced numerics capabilities, performance improvements, and cross-disciplinary engineering solutions to equip organizations with advanced physics solvers, scalable GPU-based computing, and seamless workflows. “From semiconductor manufacturers to electric […]

Expanding artificial intelligence (AI) integration across its simulation portfolio and customer community, Ansys announced the limited beta release of AnsysGPT, a multilingual, conversational, AI virtual assistant set to revolutionize the way Ansys customers receive support. Developed using state-of-the-art ChatGPT technology available via the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, AnsysGPT uses well-sourced Ansys public data to answer technical […]

Adam Weaver, Director of Engineering, Rand Simulation We’re getting into the spirit here at RandSim, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to play around with combustion modelling in Fluent. Though I had worked for many years in the turbomachinery CFD space, I was focused on the aero/thermal side, working either in heat transfer modelling […]

3M and Ansys have joined forces to launch a material modeling training program, with the goal of helping engineers refine the product development processes, accelerate the design stage, and eliminate material waste. More specifically, engineers are leveraging the program to better generate and analyze simulations, enhance designs, and speed to market next-generation products by using…

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) and Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS)  announced that the enhanced Studio 5000 Simulation Interface now connects with Ansys digital twins. This gives automation and process engineers new ways to use simulation to improve the design, deployment, and performance of industrial operations. The Studio 5000 Simulation Interface connects Rockwell Automation industrial control systems…

Ansys is reshaping how engineering students learn physics principles through the launch of free, online Ansys Innovation Courses, a new addition to the Ansys Academic Program. Accelerating the future of engineering education, the on-demand program integrates real-world simulation case studies within physics theory short courses to teach complicated physics concepts and phenomena. As universities worldwide […]

Ansys Discovery expands on the developments delivered by Ansys Discovery Live. It combines interactive real-time simulation, high-fidelity Ansys solver technology and direct modeling in one tool — powering cross-team collaboration to cost-effectively develop products. “Discovery equips our team with a better understanding of the physics behind our products early in the design process, enabling them […]

Aras, a platform provider for digital industrial applications, announced a strategic partnership with ANSYS that includes the licensing of the Aras platform technology to enable the next generation of digital engineering practices. ANSYS will leverage the underlying Aras platform technologies such as configuration management, PDM/PLM interoperability, API integration and add simulation specific capabilities to deliver […]

Engineers are unlocking increased compute capacity to achieve advances in 5G, autonomous systems, electric vehicles, and other global megatrends thanks to ANSYS Cloud high-performance computing (HPC), powered by Microsoft Azure. Available from directly within ANSYS engineering simulation software, ANSYS Cloud is helping organizations rapidly run high-fidelity simulations, shortening development cycles and increasing time to market. […]

Bruce Jenkins | Ora Research “Engineering simulation has long been constrained by fixed computing resources available on a desktop or cluster,” observes industry leader ANSYS. “Today, however, cloud computing can deliver the on-demand, high-performance computing (HPC) capacity required for faster high-fidelity results offering greater performance insight. To leverage the combined benefits of cloud computing and […]

Bruce Jenkins | Ora Research ANSYS reached agreement to acquire Granta Design, the premier provider of materials information technology for engineering and manufacturing. The acquisition “will give customers access to [a] rich source of intelligence for materials selection and management,” ANSYS said. The move “will expand ANSYS’ portfolio into this important area, giving ANSYS customers […]

ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) is transforming how the aerospace and defense, biotech and automotive industries manufacture metal parts with its new offerings for metal additive manufacturing. ANSYS Additive Print and ANSYS Additive Suite enable users to print lightweight complex metal parts successfully the first time and analyze microstructure properties and behavior. These programs can reduce the […]

Rescale, the leading provider of enterprise big compute and cloud HPC, is pleased to announce that ANSYS Elastic Licensing can now be purchased directly through Rescale’s ScaleX, a SaaS platform purpose-built for solving the world’s most challenging engineering, scientific and mathematical problems with HPC in the cloud. ANSYS Elastic Licensing is an on-demand, pay-per-use licensing […]

Bruce Jenkins | Ora Research ANSYS just acquired 3DSIM, a developer of premier additive manufacturing (AM) simulation technology, and said the move gives it “the industry’s only complete additive manufacturing simulation workflow.” ANSYS’ claim of industry leadership in this area must, of course, be taken in context of similar acquisitions and intensive R&D activity by […]

A survey of more than 500 companies in a variety of industries inquired about the actions engineers could take to improve product development. The results of that survey showed that the top action (75%) was to use simulation earlier in product development to improve the design process. About 53% of the respondents said that they […]

With ANSYS Discovery Live, engineers can rapidly explore design options and receive instant and accurate simulation results. Simulation is a critical engineering technology, but it is still not the easiest software to use. To address this issue, ANSYS is expanding Pervasive Engineering Simulation, empowering engineers to take advantage of powerful simulation tools early in the […]

Bruce Jenkins, Ora Research ANSYS acquired Computational Engineering International, Inc. (CEI), the long-established developer of a suite of products that help engineers and scientists analyze, visualize and communicate simulation data. Headquartered in Apex, NC, CEI has 28 employees and more than 750 customers worldwide. Its flagship product, EnSight, is a premier solution for analyzing, visualizing […]

This webinar was originally broadcast on July 27, 2017. WATCH ON DEMAND NOW – Exclusive webinar with ANSYS Engineering simulation can be used to develop products that fail less and deliver better results. The barriers once preventing design engineers from using simulation tools are now being removed by ANSYS AIM. It is an easy to…

Students around the world now have free access to the same leading engineering simulation solutions used by top organizations and professional engineers to create the most advanced products on the planet, thanks to ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS). Released today, ANSYS® Student is a free, introductory academic software package for students interested in learning the fundamentals of…

Using the newly released ANSYS® (NASDAQ: ANSS) 16.2, engineers can now create virtual prototypes of complete systems, enabling them to make significant strides in innovation and to unleash next-generation products within their industries. As products – from automobiles to smartphones to wearable technology – become more complex and development times continue to shrink, the need…

By Harald Studer A cataract is a clouding of the lens of the eye that first blurs vision and can eventually lead to blindness if the lens becomes opaque. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 18 million people worldwide are blind in both eyes because of cataracts, making it the cause of almost half…

This webinar will provide guidance to attendees on how to drive more engineering decisions using simulation tools. Today, there are lots of different options. You can provide automation tools to simulation analysts to improve their productivity or you could provide CAD-embedded simulation tools to engineers for early simulation feedback on a daily basis. What is…