Ansys EKM addresses simulation and data management

Ansys has released its Engineering Knowledge Manager 2.0, a product focused on simulation process and data management (SPDM).

The product addresses challenges such as how to better manage, share and reuse simulation data, and how to capture the engineering expertise that a simulation result represents.

Ansys EKM 2.0 offers a number of enhancements that simplify and speed up work, especially for remote teams that hand off data to each other as part of collaborative design.

The web-based software includes capabilities for archival and management of simulation data, traceability and audit trail, advanced search and retrieval, report generation and simulation comparison, process/workflow automation, collaboration tools, and capture and deployment of best practices.

Release 2.0 enhancements allow faster file transfer between remote locations and the ability to run simulation jobs remotely using job-submission systems such as RSM, LSF, SGE and compute clusters.

An addition to the suite is Ansys EKM Studio, an intuitive graphical system for quickly defining simulation workflows that can be used for dynamic-engineering-simulation collaboration.

Ansys EKM 2.0 also offers a scripting interface that enables the creating and publishing of custom applications templates that can then be accessed by users over the internet.

This enables the capture of simulation expertise for deployment throughout the engineering organisation.

The Ansys EKM portfolio is a scalable solution that includes Desktop, Workgroup and Enterprise versions designed to meet varying needs and differing levels of deployment, while providing a growth path from the desktop to the enterprise.

Release 2.0 offers automated metadata extraction and report generation for use with other CAE formats, tighter integration with Ansys Workbench project files for performing what-if studies, extended change configuration with branching and versioning, and an analysis project type that allows users to track input and result dependencies for simulation files.

The software is tightly integrated with other products in the Ansys multiphysics suite.

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