ANSYS, a Delaware corporation formed in 1994, develops and globally markets
engineering simulation software and services widely used by engineers, designers,
researchers and students across a broad spectrum of industries and academia,
including aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics, semiconductors, energy,
materials and chemical processing, turbomachinery, consumer products, healthcare,
and sports. The Company focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions
that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a common
platform for fast, efficient and cost-conscious product development, from design
concept to final-stage testing and validation. The Company distributes its ANSYS®
suite of simulation technologies through a global network of independent resellers
and distributors (collectively, channel partners) and direct sales offices in
strategic, global locations. It is the Companys intention to continue to maintain
this hybrid sales and distribution model.
ANSYS Workbench is the framework upon which the Companys suite of advanced
engineering simulation technologies is built. The innovative project schematic
view ties together the entire simulation process, guiding the user through complex
multiphysics analyses with drag-and-drop simplicity. With bi-directional computer-aided
design (CAD) connectivity, powerful highly-automated meshing, a project-level
update mechanism, pervasive parameter management and integrated optimization
tools, the ANSYS Workbench platform enables Pervasive Engineering Simulation™.
The Companys Workbench framework allows engineers and designers to incorporate
the compounding effects of multiple physics into a virtual prototype of their
design and simulate its operation under real-world conditions. As product architectures
become smaller, lighter and more complex, companies must be able to accurately
predict how products will behave in real-world environments where multiple types
of physics interact in a coupled way. ANSYS multiphysics software enables engineers
to simulate the interactions between structures, heat transfer, fluids and electronics
all within a single, unified engineering simulation environment.
Structures
The Companys structural analysis product suite offers simulation tools for
product design and optimization that increase productivity, minimize physical
prototyping and help to deliver better and more innovative products in less
time. These tools tackle real-world analysis problems by making product development
less costly and more reliable. In addition, these tools have capabilities that
cover a broad range of analysis types, elements, contacts, materials, equation
solvers and coupled physics capabilities, all targeted toward understanding
and solving complex design problems.
Fluids
The Companys fluids product suite enables modeling of fluid flow and other
related physical phenomena. Fluid flow analysis capabilities provide all the
tools needed to design and optimize new fluids equipment and to troubleshoot
already existing installations. The suite contains general-purpose computational
fluid dynamics software and specialized products to address specific industry
applications.
Electronics
The Companys electronics product suite provides field simulation software for
designing high-performance electronic and electromechanical products. The software
streamlines the design process and predicts performance of mobile communication
and internet-access devices, broadband networking components and systems, integrated
circuits (ICs) and printed circuit boards (PCBs), as well as electromechanical
systems such as automotive components and power electronics equipment, all prior
to building a prototype.
Semiconductors
Advancements in semiconductor design and manufacturing enable smaller electronic
architectures. Shrinking geometries, especially in the emerging 3D IC, FinFET
and stacked-die architectures, reveal design challenges related to power and
reliability. The Companys power analysis and optimization software suite manages
the power budget, power delivery integrity and power-induced noise in an electronic
design, from initial prototyping to system sign-off. These solutions deliver
accuracy with correlation to silicon measurement; the capacity to handle an
entire electronic system, including IC, package and PCB, efficiently for ease-of-debug
and fast turnaround time; and comprehensiveness to facilitate cross-domain communications
and electronic ecosystem enablement.
Embedded Software
The Companys SCADE® product suite is a comprehensive solution for embedded
software simulation, code production and automated certification. It has been
developed specifically for use in critical systems with high dependability requirements,
including aerospace, rail transportation, nuclear, industrial and, more recently,
automotive applications. SCADE software supports the entire development workflow,
from requirements analysis and design, through verification, implementation
and deployment. SCADE solutions easily integrate with each other and the rest
of the ANSYS product suite, allowing for development optimization and increased
communication among team members.
Systems
The Company delivers a unique and comprehensive system simulation capability
that is ideal for the design of todays increasingly automated products. This
collaborative environment leverages the Companys multiphysics, multibody dynamics,
circuit and embedded software simulation capabilities, enabling users to simulate
the complex interactions between components, circuits and control software within
a single environment. These technologies provide a complete view into predicted
product performance, which creates greater design confidence for engineers.
High-Performance Computing
The Companys high-performance computing (HPC) product suite enables enhanced
insight into product performance and improves the productivity of the design
process. The HPC product suite delivers cross-physics parallel processing capabilities
for the full spectrum of the Companys simulation software by supporting structures,
fluids, thermal and electronics simulations. This product suite decreases turnaround
time for individual simulations, allowing users to consider multiple design
ideas and make the right design decisions early in the design cycle.
3-D Design
The Company’s Discovery™ product family allows every engineer to
benefit from the insight of simulation in their product design. The Discovery
products range from early design exploration tools powered by interactive real-time
simulation and intuitive geometry editing, to detailed product validation solutions
utilizing proven flagship solver technology with easy-to-use guided workflows.
These tools allow for design engineers of all levels of expertise to utilize
simulation across the entire product design process and to work seamlessly with
simulation experts using ANSYS flagship products for even more advanced analysis.
Customization
ANSYS Workbench enables companies to create a customized simulation environment
to deploy specialized simulation best practices and automations unique to their
product development process or industry. With ANSYS ACT™, end users or
ANSYS partners can modify the user interface, process simulation data or embed
third-party applications to create specialized tools based on ANSYS Workbench.
Academic
The Companys academic product suite provides a highly scalable portfolio of
academic products based on several usage tiers, including associate, research
and teaching. Each tier includes various noncommercial products that bundle
a broad range of physics and advanced coupled field solver capabilities. The
academic product suite provides entry-level tools intended for class demonstrations
and hands-on instruction. It includes flexible terms of use and more complex
analysis suitable for doctoral and post-doctoral research projects. The Company
also provides a special product at no cost to students that is suitable for
use away from the classroom and in non-commercial applications.
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