Optimize & Automate Your Simulation Workflows

When using Ansys for simulations, teams often encounter repetitive workflows that can take hours to complete manually. But many of these tasks can be automated, saving valuable engineering time, improving consistency, and helping teams get more from their simulation resources. 

Rand SIM offers Workflow Optimization & Automation services tailored to your specific processes, tools, and goals. Whether you're looking to streamline a single repetitive task or optimize a larger simulation process, our engineers can help identify opportunities for automation and develop a solution around the way your team works. 

Our engineers combine simulation expertise with automation and scripting capabilities to create workflows that reduce manual intervention while maintaining the engineering practices your team relies on. 

Load your model, provide the necessary inputs, and let automation handle the repetitive work. Workflows that once required hours of hands-on effort can be transformed into streamlined, repeatable processes. 

From Repetitive Processes to Reliable Answers 

The goal of simulation isn't simply to run Ansys—it's to get the engineering answers you need to make better informed decisions. 

A well-designed workflow helps ensure those answers are generated through a consistent, repeatable, and efficient process. From CAD generation and model setup to solving, post-processing, and reporting, Rand SIM can help connect and automate the steps between your inputs and your final results. 

Automation can support tasks such as: 

Automation Built Around Your Workflow 

There isn't one approach to simulation automation. Depending on your goals, Rand SIM can develop solutions using scripting, Ansys automation capabilities, optimization tools, or customized applications. 

For highly customized processes, scripting can connect individual simulation steps and provide extensive flexibility.  

For process integration, design exploration, optimization, and robustness studies, tools such as Ansys optiSLang can help create repeatable workflows with built-in capabilities for DOE, metamodeling, optimization, and robustness analysis. 

Our engineers help determine the approach that makes the most sense for the problem you're trying to solve. 

Don't Want to Code? You Don't Have To. 

Automation doesn't have to mean handing your engineers a script. 

Rand SIM can wrap sophisticated automation into custom applications and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that make complex simulation workflows easier to use. 

Think of the script as the engine and the GUI as the dashboard and steering wheel. Your team provides the necessary inputs, the automation handles the process behind the scenes, and users receive the results they need—without having to write or maintain the underlying code. 

This can help organizations extend simulation capabilities to more users while maintaining a standardized workflow and established engineering best practices. 

Proven Across Real Engineering Workflows 

Rand SIM has applied automation across multiple client projects spanning applications in data centers, refrigeration, appliances, pharmaceutical, fire suppression, mixing, and other engineering environments. 

Our automation experience also includes: 

The result isn't simply fewer clicks. It's the ability to evaluate more cases, reduce repetitive engineering work, improve consistency, and get answers faster. 

What Could Your Team Automate? 

Automation opportunities often start with a simple question: 

What's the most repetitive or time-consuming thing your engineers do every week? 

Maybe it's setting up the same type of model again and again. Maybe it's manually assigning hundreds of material properties. Maybe engineers are changing inputs and launching simulations one at a time. Or maybe valuable simulation expertise is concentrated with a small number of users. 

Those pain points can become opportunities to create a better workflow. 

Rand SIM can work with your team to understand the current process, identify where time and effort are being spent, and determine where automation can have the greatest impact. 

Protecting Your Proprietary Data 

You don't necessarily need to hand over proprietary models or sensitive data to begin improving a workflow. 

Your team can walk our engineers through the process, requirements, and steps involved. Where appropriate, Rand SIM can develop and test automation using representative geometry and workflows, allowing your organization to adapt the solution to proprietary cases internally. 

This approach allows us to focus on improving the process while helping you maintain control of sensitive engineering information. 

More Simulations. More Users. More Value. 

Workflow automation can help your organization: 

Your Workflow. Optimized.