Build a Simulation Digital Thread
Across Product Development
The Ansys Connect collection helps organizations link simulation to the tools, processes and data used across product development. It supports a stronger simulation digital thread, making engineering insight easier to scale, reuse, and extend beyond specialist analysts.
When simulation needs to move beyond isolated analysis tasks, Connect helps create a more connected engineering workflow. This supports stronger collaboration, better traceability, and wider access to simulation-led decision-making across engineering programs.
Relevant Ansys
SOFTWARE
Ansys optiSLang
A process integration and design optimization solution for building automated, sensitivity-driven engineering workflows. A strong fit for organizations that want optimization and workflow orchestration embedded into a connected digital thread.
Automate connected engineering workflows for broader process efficiency.
Support sensitivity analysis to understand which parameters matter most.
Enable optimization studies within repeatable digital engineering processes.
Extend simulation-led decision-making across a more connected enterprise workflow.
Ansys ModelCenter
An MBSE and workflow automation solution that connects requirements to engineering analysis. Ideal for organizations that want to automate multi-tool workflows, reduce manual handoffs, and enable connected systems engineering.
Create and automate workflows across multiple engineering tools.
Connect requirements and system models to engineering analysis.
Support trade studies and design optimization in one workflow.
Strengthen MBSE adoption with tighter links between architecture and analysis.
Ansys Granta MI Enterprise
An enterprise materials information management solution that brings governed materials data into the simulation digital thread. Ideal for teams that need materials governance and engineering consistency as part of connected simulation workflows.
Provide a controlled source of approved materials information across the organization.
Support stronger materials selection and management within connected workflows.
Improve consistency by linking materials data into broader engineering processes.
Help extend the simulation digital thread beyond solver workflows alone.
Ansys System Architecture Modeler
A cloud-native MBSE solution for visualizing, designing, and managing complex systems with SysML v2. Best for teams that need stronger architecture clarity, real-time collaboration, and better linkage between system models and engineering execution.
Model complex systems in a framework built for system architecture development.
Support SysML v2 workflows for modern model-based systems engineering.
Enable real-time collaboration across connected engineering teams.
Improve traceability from requirements and architecture to downstream engineering workflows.
Ansys Minerva
An enterprise-level SPDM platform for managing simulation processes, data, and decision support across the organization. Best for teams that need stronger governance, reuse, traceability, and scalable simulation operations.
Manage simulation data and workflows in a web-based environment.
Support simulation process and decision management across on-premise and cloud deployments.
Integrate with Ansys and third-party simulation and PLM tools.
Improve traceability, collaboration, and reuse across engineering teams.
Connect Data, Workflows,
Architecture and Engineering Teams
A major strength of the Connect collection is that it spans several important disciplines, including simulation process and data management, model-based systems engineering, workflow automation, architecture modeling, and digital thread enablement. It helps organizations run more simulations for more users while connecting requirements, analysis, and engineering decisions more effectively.
That makes Connect valuable for organizations that need more than powerful solvers alone. It helps organize simulation knowledge, automate workflows, connect system models to engineering analysis, and create a stronger digital engineering foundation at scale.
Relevant
Applications
Simulation Digital Thread
Connect simulation to the broader product development environment so engineering insight can be shared, managed, and reused more effectively. Support faster development by linking simulation with the tools, processes, and data used across the lifecycle.
Simulation Process and Data Management
Manage simulation projects, workflows, governance, and data in a structured enterprise environment. Improve reuse, traceability, and consistency across simulation operations with a purpose-built SPDM approach.
Model-Based Systems Engineering
Link requirements and system models with engineering analysis to support more connected, model-driven development. Reduce document-heavy handoffs and improve decision-making across complex engineering programs.
System Architecture Modeling
Define and manage complex system architectures in a cloud-native environment built around SysML v2. Support clearer stakeholder alignment, stronger collaboration, and more traceable system design workflows.
Workflow Automation
Automate engineering tools and connect them into reusable workflows that reduce manual process overhead. Support more consistent execution across simulation-led tasks that need to be repeated and scaled.
Multi-Tool Trade Studies
Run trade studies across connected tools and workflows to compare alternatives and ask better “what-if” questions. Support design-space exploration where multiple software environments and competing requirements must be balanced.
Enterprise Simulation Deployment
Extend simulation expertise across the organization by deploying repeatable workflows to a broader user base. Help more teams benefit from trusted simulation processes without requiring every user to build them from scratch.
Materials-Connected Engineering
Bring materials selection and materials data into connected engineering workflows as part of the simulation digital thread. Support smarter design and simulation decisions with access to approved, simulation-ready materials information.
Turn Simulation into a
Connected Engineering Advantage
When simulation data, workflows, and decisions stay fragmented, teams lose time, repeat work, and struggle to scale engineering knowledge across the business.
Fluid Codes helps organizations apply the right Ansys Connect solutions to build a more connected digital thread, improve productivity, and bring simulation-led insight into broader engineering and enterprise workflows.
