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Achieve
New Heights
in Product
Innovation
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With our advanced, broad-range software and specialized
services, companies in virtually every industry can turn
their design concepts into top-selling products. That’s why
when companies face global competitive pressures and the
need for engineering simulation increases, they know ANSYS
solves the problem … every day and everywhere.
At ANSYS, we are committed to constantly pushingthe limits of our world-class technology so our customers can expand upon their own businessopportunities through innovation.
product innovationAchieve new heights in
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Since its inception, ANSYS has been focused on advancing engineering simulation by developing newtechnologies, introducing new solutions, integrating synergistic businesses and adding new partners toaddress a growing base of customers worldwide.
As ANSYS looks ahead, the company moves forwardwith a clear vision, a sound and consistent strategy,financial strength and an unwavering focus on engineering simulation – the same foundation thathas led ANSYS’ growth and success for more thanthree decades. Strategic alliances and acquisitions,
as well as industry breakthroughs, such as solving 100million degrees of freedom and introducing a solution for fluid structure interaction (FSI), have contributed toANSYS’ growth, helping the company meet customerneeds more quickly.
ANSYS looks forward to many more years of developinginnovative, reliable technologies that will solve tomorrow’s complex product design and developmentchallenges in both traditional and emerging industries.ANSYS is proud to help cultivate a new generation ofproduct design and development professionals.
Engineering Simulation Focused
ANSYS remains uniquely committed to the core engineering simulation technologies, which set it apartfrom others in the CAE industry. ANSYS’ solutions are unmatched in terms of the functionality and power necessary to optimize components, subsystemsand systems. By deploying ANSYS solutions at various stages of product development, many leading organizations are leveraging digital design performanceinformation to make timely decisions. Working with customers, technology partners and research institutions, ANSYS delivers the most robust, reliableand open simulation solutions – solutions that meet the ever-growing needs of organizations worldwide.
Customer Focused
Fueling ANSYS’ vision and strategy is the feedback andinput of the company’s growing base of customers,which includes 93 of the top FORTUNE 100 industrialcompanies. In turn, ANSYS commits more than 20 percent of the company’s revenue to research anddevelopment – the highest in the CAE industry. Thisinvestment allows ANSYS to deliver on its vision bydeveloping and delivering the most innovative and powerful engineering simulation solutions with unparalleled depth. Strong and reliable customer relationships have enabled ANSYS to develop easy-to-use software solutions that align with the customerprocess – not forcing the process to fit the solution.Many of ANSYS’ industry-focused applications weredriven by actual customer applications.
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“ANSYS software is an effective tool in simulating the function of the spine. Contact elements
are extremely useful in modeling the complex configuration of components that touch one
another. Nonlinear capabilities of the software are critical in accurately representing the
material properties as well as behavior of the artificial disc and surrounding cartilage,
ligaments and muscle tissue. Such powerful finite element modeling and analysis technologies
are essential in studying the impact, stresses and loading in various parts of the spine. Simply
put, our work could not have been done as quickly and accurately any other way.”
Dr. Missoum MoumeneSenior Principal Engineer, Research & DevelopmentDePuy Spine, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson Company
What we doANSYS designs, develops, markets and globally supports engineering simulation solutions used to predict how product designs will behave in manufacturing and real-world environments. Its integrated, modular and extensible set of solutionsaddresses the needs of organizations in a wide rangeof industries. ANSYS’ solutions qualify risk, enablingorganizations to know if their designs are acceptable orunacceptable – not just that they will function asdesigned. ANSYS helps organizations achieve:
n Innovative, reliable and high-quality products andprocesses
n Fewer physical prototypes and test setups
n Faster return on investment due to reduced development time
n A more flexible and responsive information-baseddevelopment process, enabling the modification ofdesigns at later stages of development
n A front-end simulation strategy that offers a superior method for bringing products to market in less time and with fewer costs
n Seamless working exchange of data regardless oflocation, industry, CAD environment, etc.
Automotive air conditioning and engine cooling systems manufac-turer Behr GmbH & Co. KG of Stuttgart, Germany, investigatesclimatization concepts with ANSYS® ICEM CFDTM in early stages ofthe product development process. Behr uses ANSYS ICEM CFD software to optimize and validate climate systems with respect topassenger comfort and safety, to ensure high-end climate products.
Businesses today – faced with mounting competitivechallenges, customer demands and financial pressures – are racing to find new ways to engineermore reliable, innovative products while minimizingcosts. Increasingly, these businesses are discoveringthat simulation-driven design and development canbe a highly effective way to address this challenge.
It is not surprising that ANSYS is the catalyst for this simulation-driven evolution in computer-aidedengineering. Bringing simulation and analysis to thedesign engineering level of product development lays the foundation for a fast, efficient and cost-effective process.
Who we are
ANSYS is leading the evolution of CAE tools and technologies, delivering customer value by enabling companies to improve product development and processes.
ANSYS is committed to developing simulation solutions – from mechanical to computational fluid dynamics(CFD) – that illustrate realistic and accurate modeling and simulation of components, subsystems and systems. Replacing hardware prototyping and testing, ANSYS solutions drive product designs from conceptto reality, providing an engineering simulation system for a fast, efficient and cost-conscious information-based development process.
The most prestigious companies in the world turn to ANSYS for the company’s history of developing and delivering the most reliable engineering simulation solutions – solutions that are integrated, modular and extensible.
Integrated
As the need for engineering simulation becomes a driving factor to ensure company success, moreand more companies are realizing the importance of integrated solutions. ANSYS is focused on delivering anext-generation simulation system that encompassesmultiple tools built to work together and be integratedinto a customer’s development process.
Because the interaction among multiple physics allowsusers to simulate subsystem and system performanceaccurately and reliably, ANSYS has developed synergies among all technologies that can be deployedthroughout all stages of product development. Bycombining industry-leading modeling (meshing) andsimulation (solver) technologies that capture thebehavior of multiple physics and the effect of productenvironment, ANSYS provides more than a point-solution. In addition to plug-in-level integration with allcomputer-aided design (CAD) packages, ANSYS delivers a fully integrated engineering simulation system that fits seamlessly with customer product datamanagement (PDM) backbone and other upstream/downstream applications.
Extensible
As the need for engineering simulation becomes commonplace, organizations require solutions thatcan be tailored easily to meet industry- and customer-specific needs.
To address this, the ANSYS technology platform uses industry-standard programming and scripting languages that allow ANSYS out-of-the-box solutionsto be tailored quickly into industry solutions byANSYS partners and customers. The benefits ofdeploying industry solutions are well understood by ANSYS customers. Additionally, customizationenables capture of design rules and corporate knowledge, resulting in improved productivity. Theextensibility and customization of ANSYS core technologies and out-of-the-box solutions allowANSYS technology and service partners to createbetter value for organizations.
Modular
ANSYS is focused on delivering a modular simulationsystem that is easy to use and able to meet customerneeds. Many customers begin by installing ANSYSup-front simulation tools – developed for designersand engineers – to simulate components with behavior governed primarily by single physics, suchas stress or thermal. As the design matures from theearly phases into final verification, there is a need for coupled-field – or multiple physics interaction –simulations, which are required to model and simulate subsystems and systems. This modular architecturemakes ANSYS solutions not only affordable, but also easy to develop, test and maintain. In addition,modular solutions are a relatively low-risk investmentand can expand as value is demonstrated within a company.
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Building services designer Olof Granlund Oy of Helsinki, Finland, avoidedextreme temperature variations and improved office comfort by usingANSYS® CFX® software to perform thermal and air flow analysis of a newoffice complex. ANSYS CFX software enabled the designers to provideresults at a high level of accuracy in time to impact the building design.
The ANSYS difference
“ANSYS product offerings provide ideal tools in early product
development for conceptual simulation-based design and were
instrumental in the success of developing the iGen3 digital printing
system. Also, we utilize ANSYS as one of our primary analysis tools
for advanced simulation, particularly in multiphysics applications
where multiple physical factors must be evaluated. In typical product
development programs at Xerox, simulation-based methods using
these types of predictive tools have definitely helped to reduce the
number of prototype testing iterations, each costing tens of thousands
of dollars and weeks of time. In the end, development time and costs
are reduced. But more significantly, our high-quality standards are met
and time to market is shortened in developing innovative winning new
products such as the iGen3. This has enabled Xerox to grow top-line
revenue and increase market share.”
Dr. Korhan SevenlerDirector, Product Lifecycle ManagementXerox Corporation
For many companies, developing products andimproving processes were placed on the back burner as efforts were devoted to cost cutting and maximizingprofits. But today’s corporations have a new sense of urgency about delivering innovative, high-qualityproducts to market faster to gain a competitive edge.Leading companies are re-evaluating their fixed,sequential and hardware-driven development pro-cesses and replacing them with processes that are simulation-driven, information-based and flexible –driving designs from concept to production.
Many of these customers are challenging ANSYS to innovate even faster so they can improve their products and processes with automated and integrated simulations. This is what drives ANSYS, itsstrategy and its vision.
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“When tasked with performing a design of experiments (DOE)
study on a new cylinder block for a program with compressed
timing, the Engine NVH Analysis department at Ford Motor
Company turned to ANSYS meshing solutions. The DOE
required engineers to build 17 different finite element models
of the cylinder block in order to evaluate all the design
variables. Without ANSYS, each block model would have
taken more than a week to complete. With ANSYS meshing
solutions, Ford completed two models per day, resulting in
completing a DOE study in time to have the first prototype
blocks contain the best combination of all design features.”
Emmett HolmesNVH/CAE AnalystFord Motor Company
Driving designfrom concept to production
“The ANSYS® WorkbenchTM interface is amazingly simple to use compared to other simulation programs.
Also, having Workbench integrated with Autodesk Inventor enables us to easily go from one program to
another, iteratively modifying the design in CAD and performing the simulations in ANSYS. We open up
ANSYS just by clicking on a menu box in Inventor, then hit ‘update’ and the system automatically
imports changes to geometry while keeping all the previous loads and constraints. Otherwise, we would
have to rebuild the simulation model each time. Tight integration between simulation and design lets
us get work done quickly, and gives us the freedom to try out different creative ideas. This enables
simulation to be a routine part of product development from concept to final design.”
Aaron CoxApplication Design EngineerEnergy Absorption Systems, Inc.
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“With ANSYS CFX, we were able to design a fan in only one month where it would have
taken at least three months using the traditional build and design approach. The key to
achieving these results was the use of CFX for turbomachinery design and analysis.”
Peter CameDirectorPCA Engineers
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Today, ANSYS has evolved from a small group of engineersto a global corporation that employs approximately 600development, sales, finance, marketing, administrative andmanagement professionals. Dedicated employees andvisionary, responsible leadership – together with a large andloyal customer base – have helped ANSYS to create a global and influential CAE community. Whether developinginnovative performance modeling and simulation technologies,working with customers to understand their needs or delivering a successful solution implementation at a customer site, ANSYS brings its experience, talent and driveto every situation.
ANSYS is a global company with a diverse customer basesupported by a network of business partners in more than40 countries. We have a presence in exciting emerging markets like India, China and Brazil, a product offering trans-lated into multiple languages, and development resources inEurope, Asia and the United States. This is the foundationfor ANSYS’ future success – a success marked by continuedtechnology leadership, consistent growth and profitabilityand a vision focused on achieving new heights in productinnovation.
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ANSYS. . .
everywhere
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