Ansys Minerva simulation process and data management software empowers engineers to effectively manage simulation data throughout the life cycle of a product, streamlining the analysis process, providing insight, and aiding in decision making. The Minerva offering not only stores, organizes, and provides access to simulation data but brings together different simulation tools, making it easier for engineers to access and use them in a single interface. The product facilitates efficient organization and management of simulation data, enabling engineers to easily track and access past analyses, reducing redundant work and saving time. The software also fosters collaboration among engineering teams by allowing them to share simulation data, insights, and results, which leads to better communication and decisions.

With the 2024 R2 software release, enhancements for the Minerva product provide engineers with a powerful capability for streamlining simulation workflows, ensuring accuracy and reliability of results and more effectively addressing complex engineering challenges. Engineers are now able to efficiently define, organize, and manage simulation parameters and create a structured way to verify simulation models and results, improving confidence in those results. Using the Minerva Generic Connector feature, engineers have more flexibility and control over their data, plus enhanced performance for uploading and downloading simulation data, models, and results.

The Minerva offering and Ansys Systems Tool Kit (STK) digital mission engineering software now are integrated, and users can open, save, and update STK software mission models and simulations directly to their organization’s Minerva ecosystem. With Minerva software version control and traceability of design changes and simulation results, organizations will benefit from this streamlined workflow and disciplined approach to engineering simulation projects and large program support. Additionally, the Minerva offering and Ansys ModelCenter model-based systems engineering software now are integrated, providing engineers with the ability to access and use simulation data and models in the ModelCenter environment, improving workflow automation, data exchange, optimization, and decision making.

Check out the following highlights.

Simulation Parameter Management, Verification Plans, and Reporting

• Create a parameter document and manage simulation parameters in a more efficient, standardized way outside the simulation files.
• Use the created parameter document as an input file to drive analysis of parameters in engineering simulation applications, such as Ansys optiSLang process integration and design optimization software, the ModelCenter product, and the Ansys Workbench simulation integration platform.
• Seamlessly integrate verification plans into the simulation workflow to validate simulation results.
• Ensure accuracy and reliability of simulation results and confirm that simulations meet predefined standards and criteria while providing a common reference point for simulation data, criteria, and results and helping identify issues earlier in the workflow.

Performance Enhancements to Simulation Data Uploads and Downloads Using the Minerva Generic Connector Tool

• Upload and download performance are enhanced for simulation data when using the Minerva Generic Connector feature.
• Additional commands are now available when using the Minerva Generic Connector tool.
• Version-controlled folders using newly introduced model classification can help manage the folder structure and critical revision history with ModelCenter software projects or STK software scenarios. These folders are created directly in the in-work state instead of uncontrolled.

Integration With the ModelCenter Offering and STK Software

• Minerva software works with the ModelCenter product and STK software to streamline engineering simulation workflows by integrating data management, simulation tools, and optimization capabilities.
• Together, Minerva software and the ModelCenter product provide the ability to access and use simulation data and models in the ModelCenter environment, improving workflow automation, data exchange, optimization, and decision making.
• Engineers may run STK software directly from the Minerva offering and perform an analysis, specifying inputs, getting the outputs, and connecting the digital thread through many system-level tasks contained in one workflow.
• With the Minerva product, engineers can visualize the dependencies among files, tasks, and materials, with a central repository to store all the data and track, share, visualize, and gain insights from past and current simulations.

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