ANSYS, Inc. Announces Partnership With National Science Foundation Center for e-Design
ANSYS, Inc. a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, announced an alliance with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for e-Design to help revolutionize the way companies design products.
Ultimately, the goal for both ANSYS and the Center for e-Design is to provide, through on-going collaboration, a best-of-class environment for true, virtual simulation and prototyping tools that enable engineers to check for design problems in a secure computer-based environment. A key objective of the Center for e-Design is to develop a “systems engineering approach to design, pro-activeness of analysis, virtual prototyping, lean product data management, multidisciplinary constraints and preference capturing, and instant access and visualization.”
“ANSYS is committed to delivering leading edge solutions in this very important area of global teamwork,” said Jim Cashman, president and CEO at ANSYS. “Simulation and collaboration are key linchpins in our drive to unlock the creative process of innovation. Our strategic alliances with leading research organizations, like NSF, will allow our customers to collaborate with their supply chains to deliver products in a dramatically reduced timeframe.”
This collaborative effort will be based on a new ANSYS Workbench Software Development Kit. Areas of collaboration will include: The Center’s work on tools for secure engineering collaboration via the Internet (A protocol that protects a company’s proprietary and intellectual properties); secure use of distributed Internet assets including remote super-computers and parallel processors; leveraging of the Center’s Assembly Relationship Model (ARM), a data-exchange protocol that allows thin physical interface data communications between parts and components in an engineered assembly over a secure network. An additional area of collaboration will address engineering standard feature- recognition across parametric computer-aided design (CAD) and analysis environments.
“Much like the Internet has revolutionized the world of commerce in advertising and marketing, this NSF research center will introduce a new product design and realization paradigm based on a service-oriented information infrastructure that will allow product design and supply chain stakeholders to collaborate remotely and for heterogeneous system, and data to interoperate seamlessly,” said Bart Nnaji, director of the NSF Center for e- Design. “The future product design and realization environment will allow for virtual simulation and prototyping based on the laws of physics. We expect that our collaboration with ANSYS will enable the company to leverage the tremendous energy and creativity available at the center in addressing technology barriers that impede rapid product evolution.”
About the National Science Foundation Center for e-Design
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. With an annual budget of nearly $5.58 billion, the NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 universities and institutions. Each year, NSF receives about 40,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes about 11,000 new funding awards. The NSF also awards over $200 million in professional and service contracts yearly. A key objective of the Center for e-Design is to develop a “systems engineering approach to design, pro-activeness of analysis, virtual prototyping, lean product data management, multidisciplinary constraints and preference capturing and instant access and visualization.”
The Center for e-Design and Realization of Engineered Products and Systems is an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, merging the strengths of universities with an industry partners. The NSF initially established the Center for e-Design and Realization of Engineered Products and Systems at the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Since its establishment, the cooperative has added a number of universities and major industry partners to its membership.
For more information on the Center for e-Design visit http://www.e-designcenter.info .
About ANSYS, Inc.
ANSYS, Inc., founded in 1970, develops and globally markets engineering simulation software and technologies widely used by engineers and designers across a broad spectrum of industries. ANSYS focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a common platform for fast, efficient and cost- conscious product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. Headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, with more than 25 strategic sales locations throughout the world, ANSYS, Inc. employs approximately 550 people and distributes its products through a network of channel partners in 40 countries. Visit http://www.ansys.com for more information.
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