Engineering.com round-up of recent simulation news.
Cadence to purchase BETA CAE
Cadence Design Systems has announced that it will acquire BETA CAE Systems International. The aim is to expand the electronics-focused multiphysics capabilities of Cadence’s Intelligent Systems Design tools by expanding into the realm of structural analysis. Due to the industry’s move towards digital transformations and the added convergence between mechanical and electrical products, this purchase rings similar to others in the engineering simulation field: a structural simulation company merging with electronics design automation (EDA) companies. In this case, Cadence’s portfolio of electromagnetics, electro thermal and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools will be enhanced by BETA CAE’s structural analysis tools.
Noesis Solutions releases a solver-agnostic AI-powered simulation tool
Many simulation organizations are embracing the use of AI tools, but most are focused on producing tools tailored to their own software portfolios. Noesis Solutions, however, is releasing nvision, an AI-powered surrogate modelling tool that is open and solver-agnostic. This will help simulation engineers using numerous and disparate simulation tools to use AI functionalities to reduce the time to results without reducing accuracy. If the user has historical simulation data, they can use it to build a model to help get near real-time results from simulations that could traditionally take hours, days or even weeks to run.
Maplesoft releases Maple 2024 leans into AI
The mathematical software tool Maple has just announced its 2024 release. This version offers engineers AI technologies, like an AI Formula Assistant, to improve efficiency and report writing. Users can also build their own AI tools inside Maple and link it to their systems. The AI tools offered will help engineers produce formulas, solve equations, explain systems and understand Maple commands, reducing time spend on training and producing reports. The release also has a new algorithm to solve multivariate polynomial systems, integral equations, summations, matroid theory and more.
Coreform Cubit 2024.3 released
Coreform has released the 2024.3 version of its Cubit simulation technology. Key highlights include faster performance, improved Python integration, feature enhancements and bugfixes. The release also includes improvements to the documentation of Direct Accelerated Geometry Monte Carlo (DAGMC) neutronics.
Siemens updates model-based RAMS software
Siemens Digital Industries Software has released the 3.8.7 version of MADE, a model-based reliability, maintainability and safety analysis (RAMS) software. The tool helps organizations perform RAMS assessments using digital twins. The release includes user experience and workflow improvements and faster digital twin creations due to its improved PLM integrations via Teamcenter and API protocols. The functional hazard assessment (FHA) process has also been redesigned in this release. Other improvements include the precision and ease of use of mission profile definition (MPD), alignments to ARP 4761 rev A for functional hazard analysis (FHA), new taxonomies and customizations for failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) reports, new prognostics and health management (PHM) module for sensor testing, costing and updates and more.
