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Ansys optiSLang Process Integration & Design Optimization

Revolutionize product performance with cutting-edge mechanical simulation tools

Overview

BETTER PRODUCT IN LESS TIME Parametric Design Studies Made Easy

Ansys optiSLang is a constantly evolving, leading-edge answer to the challenges posed by CAE-based Robust Design Optimization (RDO). Its state-of-the-art algorithms efficiently and automatically search for the most robust design configuration, eliminating the slow, manual process that used to define RDO. With optiSLang as your process integration and design optimization solution, you’ll make the right decisions sooner.

Features

Quick Specs

Accelerate searches for the best and most robust design configuration by automating the search process with interactive visualization and AI technologies. State-of-the-art algorithms for design exploration, optimization, robustness and reliability analysis let you make better decisions with less effort using design optimization software.

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Process Automation

Simulation Workflow Building

Optimization

Robust Design

Design of Experiments

Model Calibration

Reduced-Order Modeling

CAx Connectors

Ansys Minerva Integration

Licensing

Ansys optiSLang License

The Ansys optiSLang premium and enterprise licensing categories allow you to choose what fits your needs best. The premium offering will enable users access to a broad simulation workflow automation and optimization capabilities. Any user requires an enterprise license to build apps and conduct a much higher number of concurrent variations. The optiSLang AI+ add-on allows leveraging AI for metamodeling, and can be added to the Pro, Premium or Enterprise packages.

Mechanical Pro

Mechanical Premium

Mechanical Enterprise

AI+

Design Studies

Classic DOE

Sampling & Sensitivity Analysis

Robust Design Optimization

Classic scalar meta-modeling

Reliability Analysis

UQ for signals, 2D/3D

Process Integration and Workflow Orchestration

Embedded in Ansys + LS-OPT*

Build and automate workflows

Integrate 3rd party tools

App generation

Advanced Meta Modeling

Field meta-modeling (signals, 2D/3D)

Advanced meta-modeling for scalars

Concurrent Solver Variant Licensing

Solver variations for parametric design study

Capabilities

Streamline and automate your RDO process with leading-edge AI and interactive visualization

Ansys optiSLang is a process integration and design optimization solution that automates key aspects of the robust design optimization process. optiSLang connects multiple CAx tools and different physics into a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to optimization. Additionally, it enables simulations processes to be standardized and shared, giving new hires and simulation novices more direct access to simulation. With this powerful toolset, your entire team of engineers and designers can gain a better, more complete understanding of their design and make the right decisions sooner.

Capabilities

Key Features

OptiSLang supports integration with a variety of CAx programs and offers powerful RDO tools to gain critical insights faster

Orchestrate and Automate

Accelerate innovation by minimizing non-value added, repetitive tasks by fully automating and orchestrating the simulation workflows between heterogenous CAX tools across the entire enterprise.

Ansys optiSLang offers GUI-supported binary interfacing with major CAE tools used in virtual product development. Other tools can be connected via scripting, text-based interfaces or custom integrations. You get support for tools including CAD, CAE, scripting, desktop applications, repositories, databases and in-house solvers. With support for high-performance computing strategies, you can submit jobs using your queuing system or Ansys-provided submitting capabilities. Regardless of which environment you choose, optiSLang provides the same settings and dialogs.

Process automation and integration — as well as access to the best possible parametric simulation models — are the keys to successful CAE-based parametric studies. Our graphical user interface provides easy-to-understand charts and control panels that enable full access and traceability of the complete workflow.

Understand and Optimize

Equip your engineers with tools that help improve product designs beyond what human brains can perceive. This could mean tweaking several hundred design parameters, figuring out the parameter subset that makes a huge impact on product performance and optimizing the design.

Simulation plays a big role in understanding products and processes, especially complex ones. Parameter-based variation analysis gives you insight into how your design behaves under variability. Multidisciplinary optimization tasks often require a huge number of variables, and it can be difficult to know where to focus. optiSLang’s algorithms and correlation analysis automatically identify the most salient variables, reducing the number of design variables you must worry about. The program’s sensitivity analysis also creates the basis to appropriately formulate the optimization task with respect to choice and number of objectives or possible constraints, helping you quickly zero in on the best approximation model.

Reduced Order Modeling — Ansys optiSLang builds metamodels for rapid feedback and robust design analysis in a fraction of the time it would take to run a simulation to predict a certain design.

Design optimization and parameter identification — Ansys optiSLang’s powerful algorithms and automated workflows build on earlier steps of sensitivity analysis to provide a wizard-driven decision tree to recommend the optimizer with default settings.

optiSLang AI+ — Empowers simulation users with advanced machine learning methods for sensitivity analysis, optimization, and robust design. A more efficient approach offering higher quality prediction of CAE results gives engineers a better understanding of the causal relationship between design parameters and product performance. Design better products in less time.

Ansys Minerva Integrationl

One of the major challenges of today’s CAE engineers is the increasing complexity of processes while results have to be delivered in shorter times. At the same time, within the engineering process, multiple disciplines like NVH, thermal-mechanical-electrical analyses, safety evaluation, tolerance management and costs have to be considered. Improving one discipline could require a compromise in others.

To allow cooperation in multiphysical simulation and multidisciplinary optimization, the automation and publishing of workflows for several repetitive tasks, as well as simulation data management become essential, like:

Transfer of results of one discipline as input into the next step of operation
Post-processing steps, reports and result extraction
Model generation tasks
Variants comparison for finding an optimal design
Subsequent optimization runs with adapted constraints and objectives

A powerful solution to overcome these challenges is the combination of Ansys optiSLang and Ansys Minerva.

Evaluate Robustness

Quantify and minimize the uncertainty of risk going from simulation to real-world production when it comes to unexpected manufacturing tolerances and other real-world environmental factors.

Similar to sensitivity analysis, robustness analysis identifies the most important scattering variables and offers a decision tree to select the most appropriate algorithms to verify robustness and reliability for your product or situation. This is key for designs that must meet high safety or quality requirements with event probabilities of less than 1 out of 1,000. A reliability analysis can quantify the probability of exceeding a limit and prove it to be less than the accepted value. optiSLang’s powerful algorithms help ensure product quality, minimizing scrap, recall and the risk of legal action.

Robust Design and Reliability

Product performance is often subject to scattering properties due to manufacturing tolerances, material scatter and other stochastic effects. Stochastic analysis and statistical methods like optiSLang’s are key to ensuring product quality.

Similar to sensitivity analysis, robustness analysis identifies the most important scattering variables and offers a decision tree to select the most appropriate algorithms to verify robustness and reliability for your product or situation. This is key for designs that have to meet high safety or quality requirements with event probabilities of less than 1 out of 1,000. A reliability analysis can quantify the probability of exceeding a limit and prove it to be less than the accepted value. optiSLang’s powerful algorithms help ensure product quality, minimizing scrap, recall and the risk of legal action.

Design Optimization And Parameter Identification (Calibration)

Ansys optiSLang’s powerful algorithms and automated workflows build on the earlier steps of sensitivity analysis to provide a wizard-driven decision tree to recommend the optimizer with default setting.

The optiSLang program determines the optimal design parameters for various multidisciplinary, non-linear and multicriteria optimization tasks. Based on the earlier steps of sensitivity analysis, optiSLang has already identified the most relevant parameters and can perform a pre-optimization on the chosen metamodel. Its wizard-based interface provides user guidance to recommend the optimizer from available algorithms such as gradient-based methods, adaptive response surface method and more, including custom optimization algorithms. You can even forward optimal design candidates from one loop to the next to streamline and standardize your work.

Robust Design and Reliability

Similar to sensitivity analysis, robustness analysis identifies the most important scattering variables and offers a decision tree to select the most appropriate algorithms to verify robustness and reliability for your product or situation. This is key for designs that have to meet high safety or quality requirements with event probabilities of less than 1 out of 1,000. A reliability analysis can quantify the probability of exceeding a limit and prove it to be less than the accepted value. optiSLang’s powerful algorithms help ensure product quality, minimizing scrap, recall and the risk of legal action.