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An Electrifying Range of Applications Around the world, in nearly every industry, leading engineering teams leverage the power of our software to develop exciting electronics products that promise to revolutionize the market. Electronics systems engineers face many chal- lenges in the aerospace industry. R&D groups use powerful ANSYS tools to eliminate EMI issues between onboard radar tools and other electromagnetic systems, both in the air and on the ground. In the automotive industry, engineers are working on next-generation electric powertrains as well as on GPS navigation, automated steering, and safety and lighting systems that are predicted to make passenger cars more electrical than mechanical in nature. In designing and verifying these innovations, engineers balance electrical performance requirements with thermal dura- bility, structural integrity, light weight and energy efficiency. In consumer products sectors, ANSYS software delivers the multiphysics capabilities to ensure that power, signal and structural integrity are maintained at the highest possible levels. A special challenge is balancing fast data transfer and other performance demands with the electromagnetic output limitations imposed by government regulators. In driving innovation within the electronics industry today, ANSYS stands ready to help your business address its own product engineering challenges. Our technology can handle the complexity of modern interconnect design from die-to-die across ICs, pack- ages, connectors and boards. By leveraging advanced electromagnetic field simulators dynamically linked to powerful circuit and system simulation tools, engineers can understand the performance of high-speed electronics products before building a prototype. In the energy storage industry, electric double-layer capacitors (ultracapacitors) are becoming widely accepted for use with advanced batteries, such as for use in transit buses and trains. Hybrid–electric system designers at Maxwell Technologies use ANSYS to design such systems, leveraging comprehensive tools capable of addressing multi-domain and mixed- signal design by allowing a coupled analysis of the motor, circuit, controller and drive systems. Schneider Electric used ANSYS software to perform thermal and electrical simulations on a wiring system switch device assembly. The study extended into analyzing the effects of electrical–thermal contact resistances, impact of radiation heat transfer in compact electrical devices, and impact of overcurrent and high ambient temperatures on the product's thermal perfor- mance. ANSYS simulation gave the Schneider Electric team confidence to apply that same modeling approach to the entire product family.