Design optimisation software upgraded

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Sep 5, 2005

Noesis Solutions is shipping a new version of its flagship product Optimus.

Noesis Solutions, the leading provider of process integration and multidisciplinary design optimisation software, is shipping a new version of its flagship product Optimus 5.1.

"This new release builds on the successfully introduced Optimus 5.0 framework and includes more than 200 new product developments", says Hans Wynendaele, CEO and President of Noesis Solutions.

"Most important are the introduction of several multi-objective optimisation methods and the Optimus Driver for Catia V5".

"This new release positions us well to sustain and accelerate our solid growth of recent years".

The all-new Multi-Objective Optimisation (MOO) module adds nine MOO methods and allows users to efficiently optimise their designs with respect to two or more, often competing objectives.

It computes the Pareto set, including powerful new post-processing capability to demonstrate which tradeoffs can be made between the various objectives.

"Optimus 5.1 also features a Catia V5 driver", says Nick Tzannetakis, CTO of Noesis Solutions.

"This driver automates the use of Catia V5 as a component of an Optimus workflow".

"It allows users to access all Catia-defined design parameters and design outputs in all Catia V5 part geometry, assembly and analysis frameworks".

"You can modify the design parameters, generate and update the underlying Catia documents and extract the output parameters to be used in a multidisciplinary optimisation or robust design analysis".

The Optimus driver for Catia V5 complements the Noesis PLM Optimisation CAA V5 product, which enables multidisciplinary design optimisation integrated in the Dassault Systemes' Catia V5 environment.

In addition Optimus 5.1 brings several updates to the global optimisation methods.

A new method is the efficient global optimisation method, where successive Kriging-based response surface models are built through the iterative addition of new design points, allowing users to reach optimal designs faster than ever before.

Another new feature is the restart capability for all global optimisation algorithms, allowing users to re-use the results of previously computed generations in future analyses.

Optimus 5.1 is now available on Windows 2000 and XP, on Linux and on all major Unix platforms from HP, IBM, SGI and Sun Microsystems.