ANSYS Offers Comprehensive Simulation Solutions

SP’s ShowNews (SP’s): Can you tell us about the recent achievements of ANSYS and throw light on the company's current ventures?

KaustubhNande (Kaustubh): In the last couple of years we have had significant acquisitions, addition of partners, sales and support staff and developments on the product side. These all add up in creating more value for our customers.ANSYS has today built its position as a leading engineering simulation software provider.With the acquisition of Esterel Technologies in 2012, ANSYS has extended its capabilities to embedded software simulation and code production - enabling rapid, reliable and cost-effective design of smart product systems. The company continues its strategy of offering the most comprehensive multiphysics engineering simulation software offer available.

SP’s: Tell us about your immediate plans for India and cooperation with Indian armed forces. How do you see the Indian market?

Kaustubh: The Indian armed forces through DRDO organisations have several initiatives that vary dramatically. Overall fleet modernisation, surveillance and space applications are some of the areas where products and engineering resources seem to be devoted. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) particularly are gaining traction as they are used for a wide spectrum of applications in the military today. Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) represent one of the bright spots in the tightening of mature global defence markets as well as in emerging markets such as China and India. They are also a natural fit for the full portfolio of products - fluids, structures, thermal, EM and infrastructure - and hence represent a strong opportunity for ANSYS. Globally ANSYS software has helped UAV's designers to solve some complex engineering problems. For example, the ANSYS Suite of Solutions can help you understand UAV as a complete system.

SP’s: What do you think that gives you an edge over your competitors?

Kaustubh: ANSYS offers a comprehensive range of engineering simulation solution giving users access to virtually any field of engineering simulation that their design process requires. Today, engineering simulation tools from ANSYS form a solution set of unparalleled breadth that goes well beyond FEA and CFD to include interoperative structural, fluid flow, thermal, electromagnetics and related technologies. As such, the company's products offer the ability to perform comprehensive multi-physics analysis, critical for high-fidelity simulation of real-architecture that integrates components - these capabilities make ANSYS a leading engineering simulation provider over the others.

SP’s: Where do you see yourself five-ten years down the line-in India and the international market?

Kaustubh: ANSYS today has a global presence in more than 60 strategic sales locations throughout the world in addition to a substantial network of channel partners.The continued investment in the development of fully integrated CAE software and services has placed us at the vanguard of advances in engineering simulation. Everyone knows India is one of the fastest growing engineering simulation markets in the world with already a significant customer base for us. So our goal is to ensure that all product development companies in India embrace Simulation Driven Product Development - a vision that ANSYS is committed to in each of its territories.

SP’s: What are the major offerings of ANSYS in aerospace and defence?

Kaustubh: ANSYS is uniquely positioned to offer the aerospace and defence industry a physics-based simulation tool set that is capable of addressing the entire breadth of applications without compromising the three critical factors to aerospace and defence: Accuracy, Robustness and Speed. This breadth and depth of capability enables the aerospace and defence industry to meet with confidence the challenges of evolution in technology today and the revolution in the technology of tomorrow. Leaders in the aerospace and defence industry focus on process and people as much as tools and the ANSYS simulation framework support, training and services are recognised as key enablers for maximising the return on investment in physics based engineering simulation.

ANSYS' vision is uniquely positioned to enable Indian aerospace companies to move beyond solvers and maximise return on investment via physic-based simulation technology.