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Creo
PTC
Imagine, design, create, and innovate your products better with Creo, 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software, and solutions for product design and development. Now, more than ever, product design and manufacturing teams are expected to create products more efficiently and cost effectively, without sacrificing innovation or quality. Fortunately, Creo delivers the most scalable range of 3D CAD product development packages and tools in today’s market. Creo 7.0 has breakthrough innovations in the areas of generative design, real-time simulation, multibody design, additive manufacturing, and others! Take your products from concept to digital prototype efficiently, precisely, and intuitively with Creo—on the cutting edge of CAD for more than 30 years. With Creo 7.0, PTC amply demonstrates its skill at adding compelling new features to an already robust tool-set using smart partnerships to extend its capabilities even further. -
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Twinn Witness
Haskoning
Twinn Witness is a predictive simulation software developed by Royal HaskoningDHV that enables organizations to create dynamic virtual models of existing and planned facilities and operations. By experimenting with various 'what-if' scenarios, users can uncover in-depth business insights and validate decisions in a risk-free environment. The software offers both 2D and immersive 3D simulation models, facilitating improved communication and understanding of processes and data interrelationships. User-friendly, flexible, and powerful, Twinn Witness provides detailed insights into capital expenditures, continuous improvement, and operational enhancements before investments are made, thereby improving performance, reducing costs, and building robust business cases for sustainable growth and increased return on investment. -
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SimForDesign
Fidesys
In January 2015, we launched a cloud-based CAE solution in English called SimForDesign (Simulation Streamlined For Design). This solution was created specifically for designers, the end user does not need to have special knowledge in the field of strength engineering analysis to use our cloud service. SimForDesign allows you to carry out a verification calculation in a fast and cost-effective way. Now the service functionality is limited to static analysis of parts and simple assemblies. Currently, we are working on increasing the number of assembly types that can be analyzed in SimForDesign. The cloud service is available from anywhere in the world where you can connect to the Internet, and does not require installation. -
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HyperWorks
Altair Engineering
HyperWorks provides easy-to-learn, effective workflows that leverage domain knowledge and increase team productivity, enabling the efficient development of today’s increasingly complex and connected products. The new HyperWorks experience was created to free engineers to move from physics to physics, domain to domain, and even create reports without ever leaving their model. Create, explore and optimize designs within HyperWorks to produce robust designs that accurately model structures, mechanisms, fluids, electromagnetics, electrical, embedded software, systems design, and manufacturing processes. The solution-specific workflows enhance a growing number of engineering processes including fatigue analysis, concept design optimization, CFD modeling, and design exploration. Each provides a meticulously designed and intuitive user interface, differentiated for each user profile while remaining consistent and easy to learn. -
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CR-8000 Design Force
ZUKEN
Break down the boundaries of your electrical design process with Design Force, a true innovation in system-level IC package and PCB design and analysis. As the process for designing a complete product continues to increase in complexity, it often includes technologies that have become difficult and sometimes impossible for most ECAD tools to manage and address. Design Force provides the ability for design teams to take system-level design information from as early as the conceptual and planning phase and layout each board in the product, simultaneously considering the entire system view. Design Force fully leverages the latest industry hardware and software capabilities, allowing users to design in a native 3D environment, obtaining optimal performance by utilizing native 64-bit, multi-threading, multi-core processors. Design Force supports multiple client-server implementations and includes the ability to work from your corporate cloud. -
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ETAP Software
ETAP
ETAP® is a full spectrum analytical engineering software company specializing in the analysis, simulation, monitoring, control, optimization, and automation of electrical power systems. ETAP electrical engineering software offers the best and most comprehensive suite of integrated power system enterprise solution. -
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MASTA
SMT
MASTA is a complete suite of CAE software for the design, simulation & analysis of driveline systems from concept through to manufacture. MASTA benefits accurately and rapidly design transmission systems from scratch or imported concepts. Comprehensively understand the life of a mechanical part over the customer duty cycle. Identify potential failure modes early in the product development cycle. Rapidly predict key performance characteristics at the design stage. Easily explore changes in transmission layout, component selection and/or design, materials and manufacturing processes in the convenience of a virtual environment. Perform full system simulations for any transmission or driveline configuration. Incorporate manufacturing simulation at the design stage to reduce process development time & cost. MASTA’s unique and modern architecture written from the ground up in C# makes it a significantly more stable comparative solution for current and future operating systems. -
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VPS-MICRO
VEXTEC Corporation
VPS-MICRO predicts the life of manufactured parts by simulating the behavior of the materials they’re made from. VPS-MICRO is built on three inescapable truths. Durability is not a function of applied stress, alone, but rather a combination of that stress and the material’s reaction to it. The materials we use to build complex components and systems are not homogenous. Computer cycles are shorter and cheaper than physical testing cycles or prototyping. Using these ideas as a foundation, VEXTEC’s VPS-MICRO® is a computational software that accurately accounts for a material’s reaction to the stress imparted upon it, its variability and all its various damage mechanisms, its geometry, and the conditions of its usage over time. The result is a 3D, time and condition-based product simulation that accurately and efficiently reflects the real world physics of how, when and why damage occurs. -
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Ansys Motion
Ansys
Ansys Motion, now in the Mechanical interface, is a third generation engineering solution based on an advanced multibody dynamics solver. It enables fast and accurate analysis of rigid and flexible bodies and gives accurate evaluation of physical events through the analysis of the mechanical system as a whole. Ansys Motion uses four tightly integrated solving schemes: rigid body, flexible body, modal and meshfree EasyFlex. This gives you unparalleled capabilities to analyze systems and mechanisms in any combination you want. Large assemblies with many millions of degrees of freedom can studied with the effects of flexibility and contact included. Standard connections and joints then allow these systems to be connected and loaded. Being able to perform simulations in Ansys Motion in the same interface as your regular structural analysis means that one model can be re-used for many purposes resulting in huge time savings. -
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KISSsoft
KISSsoft AG
The gear calculation covers all common types: cylindrical, bevel, worm, crossed helical, hypoid, and face gears. In addition to calculations based on standards ISO, DIN, AGMA, VDI, etc., numerous sizing and optimization tools are offered, as well as methods that go beyond the standards. The shaft and bearing calculation is fully integrated in KISSsoft®. Among other things, shaft strengths and rating life of bearings are calculated optionally taking into account internal geometry (ISO TS 16281). The calculation can include several coaxial shafts and their connecting bearings. Torsion and bending-critical eigenfrequencies of the shafts are determined. When calculating the shaft-hub connections, the system checks whether a connection is valid and whether the pressures occurring remain below the permissible material characteristic values. All calculation modules offer sizing functions for the strength-relevant geometric dimensions and the maximum transmittable torque. -
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AdditiveLab
AdditiveLab
Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) at an industrial level is a fairly new challenge for many companies. Particularly in the early phases of adapting AM technology, companies spend several weeks with trial and error tests to optimize build configurations. This is inefficient and a waste of time and money. The software AdditiveLab helps to cut back the trial and error tests by providing simulation technology that can predict outcomes of metal-deposition AM processes. With AdditiveLab failure-prone regions can be identified efficiently and manufacturing configurations optimized to increase the manufacturing success, and subsequently, save time and money. AdditiveLab was particularly developed to address the engineering needs of AM engineers without requiring simulation knowledge. It provides a very simple user-interface and automated model preparation processes, reducing the state-of-the-art simulation to only a few clicks. -
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Simufact Additive
Hexagon
Simufact Additive is a powerful and scalable software solution for the simulation of metal-based additive manufacturing processes. Discover how to use Simufact Additives to optimize your metal 3D printing / rapid prototyping. Simufact Additive helps you to significantly reduce the number of test prints. Our goal is to provide you with a software solution which helps you produce AM components with repeatable dimensional accuracy first time right. Simufact Additive´s multi-scale approach combines the best approaches in a unique software solution - from an extremely fast mechanical method to a full thermal-mechanical coupled transient analysis with the highest accuracy of simulation results. You can choose the right simulation method for your situation. Simufact Additive is a specialised software solution dedicated exclusively to the simulation of additive manufacturing processes. For the user, this is reflected in a lean operating concept. -
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Digimat-AM
e-Xstream engineering
Digimat-AM is a solution of Digimat Software that simulates the printing process and helps printer manufacturers and end-users to identify manufacturing issues. It also optimizes printing parameters for productivity and final part performance prior to printing the first part. The use of numerical simulation allows you to turn hundreds of trials and errors into a couple of clicks in Digimat-AM. Digimat -AM empowers engineers with a process simulation solution that helps. Simulate the FFF, FDM, SLS and CFF processes of unfilled and reinforced materials Predict the as-printed part warpage, residual stresses and process-induced microstructure. Analyze the coupled thermal-structural response of the process for unfilled and reinforced polymers. Set up the right manufacturing parameters for high precision printing and further bridge the gap between printing process, material and part performances. -
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Ansys Fluent
Ansys
Ansys Fluent is the industry-leading fluid simulation software known for its advanced physics modeling capabilities and industry leading accuracy. Ansys Fluent gives you more time to innovate and optimize product performance. Trust your simulation results with a software that has been extensively validated across a wide range of applications. With Ansys Fluent, you can create advanced physics models and analyze a variety of fluids phenomena—all in a customizable and intuitive space. Accelerate your design cycle with this powerful fluid simulation software. Ansys Fluent contains the best-in class physics models and can accurately and efficiently solve large , complex models. Ansys Fluent unlocks new potentials for CFD analysis. A fluid simulation software with fast pre-processing and faster solve times to help you be the fastest to break into the market. Fluent’s industry leading features enable limitless innovation, while never making a compromise on accuracy. -
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Ansys HFSS
Ansys
Multipurpose, full wave 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for designing and simulating high-frequency electronic products such as antennas, components, interconnects, connectors, ICs and PCBs. Ansys HFSS is a 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for designing and simulating high-frequency electronic products such as antennas, antenna arrays, RF or microwave components, high-speed interconnects, filters, connectors, IC packages and printed circuit boards. Engineers worldwide use Ansys HFSS software to design high-frequency, high-speed electronics found in communications systems, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), satellites, and internet-of-things (IoT) products. HFSS’s unmatched capacity, coupled with indisputable accuracy, enables engineers to address RF, microwave, IC, PCB and EMI problems for most complex systems. The Ansys HFSS simulation suite consists of a comprehensive set of solvers to address diverse electromagnetic problems. -
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Ansys LS-DYNA
Ansys
Ansys LS-DYNA is the industry-leading explicit simulation software used for applications like drop tests, impact and penetration, smashes and crashes, occupant safety, and more. Ansys LS-DYNA is the most used explicit simulation program in the world and is capable of simulating the response of materials to short periods of severe loading. Its many elements, contact formulations, material models and other controls can be used to simulate complex models with control over all the details of the problem. LS-DYNA delivers a diverse array of analyses with extremely fast and efficient parallelization. Engineers can tackle simulations involving material failure and look at how the failure progresses through a part or through a system. Models with large amounts of parts or surfaces interacting with each other are also easily handled, and the interactions and load passing between complex behaviors are modeled accurately. -
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Ansys Autodyn
Ansys
Simulate the response of materials to events ranging from short duration severe mechanical loadings, high pressures and even explosions. Ansys Autodyn provides advanced solution methods without compromising ease of use. Ansys Autodyn makes it easy to quickly understand and simulate large material deformation or failure. Autodyn has a range of models to represent complex physical phenomena such as the interaction of liquids, solids and gases; the phase transitions of materials; and the propagation of shock waves. By Integrating within Ansys Workbench and its own native-user interface, Ansys Autodyn has long led the industry in ease of use, enabling you to produce accurate results with the least amount of time and effort. The smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) solver completes the picture to provide everything needed for explicit analysis. Ansys Autodyn lets you select from different solver technologies so the most effective solver can be used for a given part of the model. -
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PDS
Hexagon PPM
PDS® is a comprehensive, intelligent computer-aided design/engineering application. Production-driven, PDS delivers the best design possible and does it more efficiently to reduce the total installed cost of the project. It enhances value and minimizes risk while preserving the value of data. PDS has been chosen by owner operators and engineering, procurement and construction firms for design projects globally since the mid-1980s. Dynamic walkthroughs that allow operations and maintenance personnel to interactively view the plant before it is constructed. Provides specification-driven design and interference checking both "hard" and "soft." Provides accurate material take-offs, supplies extensive, customizable reference data created to industry standards. -
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HEEDS
Siemens
HEEDS is a powerful design space exploration and optimization software package that interfaces with all commercial computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools to drive product innovation. HEEDS accelerates the product development process by automating analysis workflows (Process Automation), maximizing the available computational hardware and software resources (Distributed Execution), and efficiently exploring the design space for innovative solutions (Efficient Search), while assessing the new concepts to ensure performance requirements are met (Insight & Discovery). HEEDS enables automated workflows for the ease of driving product development processes. With an extensive list of developed interfaces to commercial CAD and CAE tools, HEEDS quickly and easily integrates many technologies without the need for custom scripting. The data is automatically shared between different modeling and simulation products to evaluate performance trade-offs. -
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Simcenter Femap
Siemens Digital Industries
Simcenter Femap is an advanced simulation application for creating, editing, and inspecting finite element models of complex products or systems. You can use advanced workflows in Simcenter Femap to model components, assemblies, or systems, to then determine a model’s behavioral response when subjected to real-world conditions. In addition, Simcenter Femap provides powerful data-driven and graphical results visualization and evaluation, which in combination with the industry-leading Simcenter Nastran, delivers a comprehensive CAE solution that improves product performance. In the quest to make products lighter yet stronger, manufacturers are increasing their use of composite materials. Simcenter is at the leading edge of composites analysis through continuous development of material models and element types. Simcenter speeds the entire process for simulating laminate composite materials through a seamless connection to composites design. -
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Abaqus
Dassault Systèmes
Today, product simulation is often being performed by engineering groups using niche simulation tools from different vendors to simulate various design attributes. The use of multiple vendor software products creates inefficiencies and increases costs. SIMULIA delivers a scalable suite of unified analysis products that allow all users, regardless of their simulation expertise or domain focus, to collaborate and seamlessly share simulation data and approved methods without loss of information fidelity. The Abaqus Unified FEA product suite offers powerful and complete solutions for both routine and sophisticated engineering problems covering a vast spectrum of industrial applications. In the automotive industry engineering work groups are able to consider full vehicle loads, dynamic vibration, multibody systems, impact/crash, nonlinear static, thermal coupling, and acoustic-structural coupling using a common model data structure and integrated solver technology. -
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CAE Fidesys
CAE Fidesys
Powerful and flexible preprocessor for high quality finite element meshes. Attractive cost - an order of magnitude lower than foreign counterparts. Strength calculations under static and dynamic loading. Calculation of natural frequencies and vibration modes. Calculation of critical loads and buckling modes. 2D and 3D calculations for volumetric, thin-walled and bar structures. Elastoplastic deformation according to the mises and drucker-prager models. Strength calculations for large displacements. Calculation of thermal conditions, heat loss, temperature deformations of parts and structures. Strength calculations for highly elastic materials. -
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Ansys Gateway powered by AWS is the solution for developers, designers, and engineers who want to manage their complete Ansys Simulation & CAD/CAE developments in the cloud. Access cloud computing resources from anywhere on virtually any device via your web browser. You can create, customize, and connect cloud applications with minimal technical skills. Simply install your 3rd party applications alongside Ansys applications. Accelerate innovation by removing on-premises hardware barrier for High Performance Computing (HPC) using the power of AWS cloud. Leverage Ansys expertise in configuration and deployment of Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) and High Performance Computing (HPC). Manage & control your CAD/CAE cloud consumption and costs directly within your AWS subscription.
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samadii/em
Metariver Technology Co.,Ltd
samadii/em (electromagnetic simulation software) analyzes the electromagnetic field in 3d space using the Maxwell equation and using the FEM method. samadii/em (Electromagnetics Simulation) provides a multi-physics approach and high-performance electromagnetics simulation, with Samadii you can quickly address problems from semiconductors and displays to wireless communications, etc. With samadii/em you can analyze problems in electrostatic fields, transient electromagnetics, AC electromagnetic fields, magnetostatics as well as induction electronics, including the low-frequency and high-frequency ranges. -
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Simcenter 3D
Siemens
Address complex engineering challenges by enhancing simulation efficiency. Simcenter 3D is one of the most comprehensive, fully-integrated CAE solutions. Simcenter 3D helps you model and evaluate complex product performance through revolutionary improvements in simulation efficiency. By integrating multiple physics domains together from a single simulation modeling environment, you gain better insight into your product’s performance faster. Simcenter 3D is an integrated environment in which you perform all of your CAE pre- and post-processing. Unrivaled geometry manipulation tools help you intuitively defeature and abstract computer-aided design (CAD) geometry from any source. Comprehensive meshing and modeling tools support multiple simulation applications and give you the unique capability to associate your analysis model with design data. This helps you speed up the tedious modeling process and keep analysis models in sync with the latest design. -
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Bechtle PLM
Bechtle PLM
Bechtle PLM is a comprehensive product-lifecycle-management solution and service concept that helps businesses accelerate their time-to-market by strengthening the network of individual business segments and optimizing how they work together. It goes beyond core PLM components of design, production, and replacement parts management by offering a holistic approach that considers the entire IT landscape, including hardware, infrastructure, software, business applications such as BI, CRM, ERP, CAD, PDM, CAM, DMS/ECM, and AI, to create an integrated, turnkey PLM environment. The solution supports all lifecycle phases from beginning-of-life (product and design development), through middle-of-life (supplier collaboration, warranty, and product information management), to end-of-life (recycling, disposal, remarketing) and enables parallel development stages, improved information quality, reduced reliance on physical prototypes, and faster response times. -
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Vicon Precision Plasma Fabrication
Vicon Machinery
Vicon Fabrication Software is a powerful, Windows-based application designed to integrate with computer-controlled cutting, processing, and roll-forming machinery, especially in HVAC, coil-line, and plasma fabrication shops. It offers customizable fabrication libraries, direct integration with CAD/CAM systems, and a seamless workflow from part import to machine execution. The software supports coil-lines, roll-formers, cut-to-length lines, plasma/laser cutters, and liner systems, enabling manufacturers to nest, program, track, and manage jobs from a single interface. Its architecture is built for flexibility; shops of all sizes can tailor the libraries to their parts and materials, while optional add-ons allow for importing existing CAD output, streamlining the transition from design to production. Developed in-house and included with Vicon-branded machinery, the fabricator software is engineered to eliminate bottlenecks and reduce programming overhead. -
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Dive
Dive
Dive CAE is a cloud-native computational fluid dynamics software platform that enables engineers to simulate complex fluid behaviors, such as free-surface flow, multiphase interactions, heat transfer, and moving machinery, using a mesh-free Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method. It runs entirely in the browser and on high-performance computing infrastructure, so users don’t need local hardware or installation. The mesh-free approach allows for modeling of complex geometry, surface tension, non-Newtonian fluids, and transient flows without the time-consuming meshing and tuning required by conventional CFD. Onboarding is fast (typically under one day), and the software supports parallel design-of-experiment workflows that deliver multiple iterations in hours rather than days. Dive CAE emphasizes collaboration, license simplicity (one licence for all users), transparent cost control, data usage governance, and scalability via cloud infrastructure. -
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FLOW-3D
Flow Science
Optimize product designs and reduce time to market with FLOW-3D, a highly-accurate CFD software that specializes in solving transient, free-surface problems. FLOW-3D‘s complete multiphysics suite includes our state-of-the-art postprocessor, FlowSight. FLOW-3D provides a complete and versatile CFD simulation platform for engineers investigating the dynamic behavior of liquids and gas in a wide range of industrial applications and physical processes. FLOW-3D focuses on free surface and multi-phase applications, serving a broad range of industries including microfluidics, bio-medical devices, water civil infrastructure, aerospace, consumer products, additive manufacturing, inkjet printing, laser welding, automotive, offshore, energy and automotive. A uniquely powerful, multiphysics tool, FLOW-3D provides the functionality, ease-of-use and power that helps engineers advance their modeling objectives. -
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Khimera
Kintech Laboratory
Khimera is used to calculate the kinetic parameters of microscopic processes, thermodynamic and transport properties of substances and their mixtures in gases, plasmas and gas-solid phases boundary. The primary users are researchers and engineers, involved in kinetic model development as well as thermodynamic and kinetic modeling for chemical engineering, combustion, catalysis, metallurgy, and microelectronics areas. Khimera ideally fits the needs of multi-scale modeling providing the link between fundamental molecular properties of individual molecules and mesoscale ensemble-averaged characteristics of the reactive medium: thermodynamic and transport properties as well as rates of chemical reactions. All the models can use the results of quantum-chemical simulations as an input, thus providing the possibility to recover properties without any experimental input from the user side.
