The future of simulation software in 2020
Summary
For simulation, there’s a clear opportunity to utilise AI and machine learning to complete basic processes and administration to save engineers time or simplify procedures. Historically, an engineer would use different physics simulation tools to overcome a variety of design issues with a single product. This multidisciplinary optimisation will reduce the time required to analyse the product, whether it’s a chip or otherwise, and find the right solution to whichever problem engineers are faced with. This was behind ANSYS’ decision to acquire Granta Design, which advances ANSYS’ capabilities in this area and enables users of our simulation tools to quantify, validate and verify their products and services in the presence of uncertainty and ensure the optimum factor of safety. Here, engineers are digitising information of a physical part, enabling them to analyse performance and monitor systems to head off problems with the real-world component or machine before they occur.