Why HEEDS?
HEEDS accelerates the product development process by automating analysis workflows, maximizing available computational hardware and software resources and efficiently exploring the design space for innovative solutions while assessing the new concepts to ensure performance requirements are met.
- Design Space Exploration and Optimization
HEEDS enables users to explore a wide range of design options and parameters, facilitating the discovery of optimized solutions to complex engineering problems.
- Time and Cost Efficiency
By automating the design process and leveraging optimization algorithms, HEEDS helps reduce the time and cost associated with product development through rapid analysis of numerous design variations.
- Multi-disciplinary Optimization
HEEDS supports the consideration of multiple engineering disciplines simultaneously, allowing for a holistic approach to design optimization that considers interactions between different domains.
- Workflow Automation
HEEDS automates repetitive tasks in the design and optimization process, streamlining workflows and enhancing efficiency. This automation can lead to faster decision-making and more comprehensive exploration of design spaces.
HEEDS capabilities
- Process automation
HEEDS automates product development workflows, integrating diverse CAD and CAE tools effortlessly. It allows for easy creation and modification of design processes, robust re-meshing, and updating of simulation models. With process automation, users can quickly evaluate design variants, making downstream exploration more efficient. HEEDS enables a deeper understanding of designs and simplifies decision-making for production.
- Distributed execution
HEEDS maximizes hardware investments by efficiently using Windows, Linux workstations, clusters, and cloud resources. Its Distributed Execution feature supports parallelization, unlimited load cases, and seamless orchestration across platforms, optimizing virtual simulation for continuous design space exploration.
- Efficient search
HEEDS enables innovation for all designers and engineers, without requiring specialized expertise. Using its proprietary design space exploration, it employs intelligent search strategies, adapting dynamically. Known as SHERPA, this approach eliminates the need for model simplification and reduces search time, development costs, and design risks.
- AI enhanced search
HEEDS AI Simulation Predictor enhances SHERPA's search technology for faster performance in CAE analyses and lengthy optimizations. This accelerator, part of the hybrid-adaptive search framework, employs accuracy-aware AI to actively learn and improve the current search and future design processes. It significantly reduces design optimization time, offering comparable results to SHERPA with up to a 40% reduction in computational time. The technology seamlessly integrates into existing workflows, allowing users to discover better designs faster without requiring AI expertise.
- Insight and discovery
HEEDS software simplifies the exploration of performance tradeoffs in virtual prototype design, aiding effective design reviews. Users can gain insights into design alternatives, identify top-performing design families, highlight cost-effective changes, and assess robustness to manufacturing tolerances. HEEDS enables the comparison of performance across a range of designs, helping users understand design performance over various objectives and constraints. The software facilitates immediate design decisions during reviews by providing sensitivity to design variables and predicting results.
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