Engineer More Reliable,
Efficient and Durable Industrial Equipment
Industrial equipment must deliver performance, uptime, and durability under demanding operating conditions. Simulation helps engineering teams improve efficiency, safety, and reliability across rotating machinery, heat exchangers, industrial systems, and heavy equipment while reducing development risk.
By bringing earlier insight into fluid flow, structural loads, thermal behavior, vibration, and system performance, simulation supports better decisions across design, manufacturing readiness, and long-term operation.
From Equipment Performance to
Smarter Operations
Simulation in industrial equipment supports far more than product design alone. It helps teams improve rotating machinery performance, thermal efficiency, structural durability, and manufacturing readiness while building stronger confidence before equipment reaches operation.
It also creates a stronger link between engineering and operations through connected workflows such as predictive maintenance, digital twins, and data-informed performance optimization. This extends simulation value beyond development into uptime, reliability, and lifecycle performance.
Core
Focus
Rotating Machinery and Flow Performance
Analyze pumps, fans, compressors, valves and other flow-driven systems to improve efficiency, durability and operating reliability.
Structural Integrity and Equipment Durability
Study stress, vibration, fatigue, contact and deformation in machinery, heavy equipment and pressure-bearing components.
Thermal and Process Performance
Model heat exchangers, cooling behavior and coupled thermal-fluid performance in industrial systems and process equipment.
Digital Engineering and Connected Operations
Use simulation-led digital engineering to streamline design, support predictive maintenance and improve lifecycle decision-making.
Relevant
Applications
Rotating Machinery
Improve rotating machinery performance with simulation-led insight into efficiency, vibration, safety, and durability. Support more reliable design decisions across turbomachinery and other demanding industrial equipment applications.
Pumps, Fans and Compressors
Optimize pumps, fans, and compressors by understanding flow behavior, losses, and performance earlier in development. Use simulation to improve efficiency, reduce operating risk, and support longer-lasting equipment design.
Heat Exchangers
Analyze heat exchanger behavior with multiphysics simulation to improve heat transfer, efficiency, and lifetime performance. Evaluate steady and transient thermal-fluid conditions earlier to support stronger engineering decisions.
Industrial Machinery Design
Develop industrial machinery with better visibility into the physical effects that shape performance and reliability. Use simulation earlier in design to improve product quality, reduce rework, and support more efficient development.
Equipment Reliability
Improve equipment reliability by assessing durability, vibration, thermal loading, and overall performance stability. Identify risks earlier and make more confident design choices across industrial machinery and process systems
Manufacturing Process Improvement
Use simulation to improve manufacturability and refine process decisions alongside equipment design.
Support more efficient production outcomes by validating process behavior earlier in development.
Structural Mechanics for Heavy Equipment
Evaluate heavy equipment under real loading conditions with structural simulation that supports strength, durability, and performance. Apply FEA to industrial machines and production equipment where structural behavior directly affects reliability.
Pressure Equipment Assessment
Assess pressure-bearing equipment with greater confidence by studying loads, stresses, and structural response earlier. Support safer design evolution where geometry changes and pressure conditions directly affect performance.
Why
Fluid Codes
Solving Complex
Industrial Equipment Challenges
Industrial equipment engineering demands simulation tools that can support performance, durability, and smarter operational decisions. Fluid Codes helps apply the right Ansys technologies across rotating machinery, thermal-fluid behavior, structural durability, electrified machines, and connected engineering workflows.
With the right technical guidance, simulation can be used more effectively to improve efficiency, reliability, and long-term equipment performance. This creates a stronger link between engineering decisions, operational readiness, and lifecycle value.
How Simulation
Helps
Fluids
Support pumps, compressors, valves, heat exchangers and other thermal-fluid industrial equipment workflows with high-fidelity CFD.
Structures
Analyze stress, vibration, fatigue, contact and deformation across industrial machinery, heavy equipment and pressure-bearing systems.
Electronics
Support electric motors, drives, controls and electronics-related performance challenges in modern industrial equipment.
Digital Twin
Connect simulation with field data to support predictive maintenance, asset insight and lifecycle performance improvement.
Connect
Create a stronger digital thread across simulation workflows, engineering data and design decisions in industrial programs.
3D Design
Enable faster concept exploration and geometry preparation in industrial equipment development before deeper simulation begins.
Improve Industrial Equipment Performance with Simulation
Talk to Fluid Codes about the right Ansys solutions for your industrial equipment challenges, from pumps, compressors and heat exchangers to structural durability, electrified machines and digital twins.
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