Ansys has released Ansys Engineering Knowledge Manager (Ansys EKM) 2.0, a product focused on simulation process and data management (SPDM). The software suite addresses a number of challenges that engineers face, such as how to better manage, share and reuse simulation data as well as how to capture the engineering expertise that a simulation result represents.
Ansys EKM 2.0 offers a number of significant enhancements that simplify and speed up work, especially for remote teams that hand off data to each other as part of collaborative design. The software is web-based with extensive capabilities for archival and management of simulation data, traceability and audit trail, advanced search and retrieval, report generation and simulation comparison, process/workflow automation, collaboration tools, and capture and deployment of best practices.
Release 2.0 enhancements allow for smarter and faster file transfer between remote locations and the ability to run simulation jobs remotely using job submission systems, such as RSM, LSF, SGE and compute clusters. A new addition to the suite is Ansys EKM Studio, an intuitive graphical system for quickly and easily defining simulation workflows that can be used for dynamic engineering simulation collaboration.