Food and beverage leaders in the industry are accelerating their innovation pipeline with simulation and IoT. These software solutions enable companies to deliver competitively differentiated process and products to market faster and at lower cost than their peers while satisfying the sustainability concerns of customers.
APPLICATIONS
Mixing
Ansys fluid mixing simulation tools help you to model the mixing process and blending of one or more fluid-like materials.
Product packaging
Ansys Polyflow accelerates design time while shrinking energy and raw material demands for manufacturing processes including blow molding, Thermoforming, Extrusion and Inverse die design. Polyflow helps to investigate the behavior of new plastics and elastomers. Virtual prototyping enables optimization and design exploration to reduce waste and overdesign.
Granular flow
Innovative food processing technologies rely on modeling for designing and optimizing operational parameters as well as regulating product quality and safety. Rocky DEM supplements experiments and empirical models, providing input to mixing, coating, granulation, sorting, drying, and packaging processes — reducing development costs and shortening time to market.
Equipment design
As the physical and digital worlds converge to deliver the fourth industrial revolution, simulation is at the forefront, transforming data into actionable insight. Through automation, the Industrial Internet of Things, and digital twins, operational efficiency, reliability, durability and performance of industrial equipment will be improved. At the same time, it will drive down costs, save energy and minimize waste. Ansys simulation solutions are playing a critical role in accelerating this transformation.
Smart manufacturing
CAD-IT provides the solutions that make it possible to develop and execute an Industry 4.0 factory automation strategy aligned with your business strategy. You’ll be empowered to optimize robotics on the factory floor and view, understand, and act on industrial data across the distributed supply chain in real time. Plus, you’ll gain the insight and oversight needed to reduce or eliminate downtime due to malfunctioning equipment, unavailable spare parts inventory, and supply chain glitches.
PRODUCTS
ANSYS CFD (Fluid)
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a tool with amazing flexibility, accuracy and breadth of application. Ansys CFD goes beyond qualitative results to deliver accurate quantitative predictions of fluid interactions and trade-offs. These insights reveal unexpected opportunities for your product — opportunities that even experienced engineering analysts can miss. While Ansys CFD empowers experienced analysts to deliver deep insights, serious CFD is not just for experts modeling rocket ships and racing cars. Engineers at every level across diverse industries are getting great value from CFD analysis.
Ansys Electromagnetic
Ansys electromagnetic field simulation helps you design innovative electrical and electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. Ansys software can uniquely simulate electromagnetic performance across component, circuit and system design, and can evaluate temperature, vibration and other critical mechanical effects.
This unmatched electromagnetic-centric design flow helps you achieve first-pass system design success for advanced communication systems, high-speed electronic devices, electromechanical components and power electronics systems.
ANSYS Structures
Ansys structural analysis software enables you to solve complex structural engineering problems and make better, faster design decisions. With the finite element analysis (FEA) solvers available in the suite, you can customize and automate solutions for your structural mechanics problems and parameterize them to analyze multiple design scenarios. You can also connect easily to other physics analysis tools for even greater fidelity. Ansys structural analysis software is used across industries to help engineers optimize their product designs and reduce the costs of physical testing.
Flownex
Flownex Simulation Environment delivers technology that enables you to study how systems will behave in the real world, where fluid is the driving factor. Flownex determines pressure drop and heat transfer for the connected components of a complete system in steady state and transient (e.g. Pumps or compressors. Pipes. Valves. Tanks and heat exchangers). Flownex system simulation relays the overall effect of changing specific properties on components, allowing clients to examine extensively all possible variations of a system in the design and optimization of systems.
Rocky
Rocky DEM – a powerful Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) program that quickly and accurately simulates the granular flow behavior of complex particle shapes which includes custom 3D bodies, 2D shells and fibers which can be made rigid or flexible and size distributions. It is served in many industrial processes including Mining, Oil and Gas, Asphalt and Construction, Pharmaceutical and Nanotechnology. With Rocky DEM, you can combine the processing power of several GPU cards to accelerate your simulations, enabling you to work with higher volumes of data in less time. Rocky DEM is also tightly coupled with Ansys (Fluent and Mechanical).
Thingworx
A Smart, Connected World
The ThingWorx platform is a complete, end-to-end technology platform designed for the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It delivers tools and technologies that empower businesses to rapidly develop and deploy powerful applications and augmented reality (AR) experiences.