Call it business
process automation meets engineering. Dassault
Systemes' Isight simulation process automation and design
optimization tool
has been upgraded with new methods and capabilities to exploit
multi-core
processing along with a new licensing model designed to reduce cost.
Isight, from
Dassault's
SIMULIA brand, gives designers, engineers and researchers an open system
to
integrate design and simulation models created with diverse CAD, CAE and
other
design tool applications. The software is designed to help automate the
execution of hundreds or thousands of simulations, saving time and
helping
improve designs by optimizing against performance or cost variables
through statistical
methods such as Design of Experiments or Design for Six Sigma.
The new Isight 4.5
upgrade provides new scalable parallel algorithms for leveraging
multi-core
computing resources, enhanced approximation and reliability methods to
evaluate
product performance across a range of real-world operating variables,
improvements to multi-objective optimization and data mining which
provides
deeper insight into performance attribute tradeoffs. Dassault also
released the
SIMULIA Execution Engine (formerly Fiper) 4.5 for executing Isight
simulation
process flows across computing resources.
Customers will now
be able to leverage the new parallel algorithm and optimization features
in
Isight combined with the distributed computing capabilities of
Simulation Execution
Engine to evaluate more design alternatives in less time, according to
Steve
Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systemes.
This will
result in developing better products at a lower cost, he said.
In a related move, users of SIMULIA's Abaqus
Unified FEA will benefit from a new licensing policy that dramatically
reduces
the cost for using SIMULIA's Abaqus Unified FEA in automated design
studies
with Isight. Using the combination of these products allows customers to
reduce
their Abaqus token usage as much as 60 percent.
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