Discover innovative solutions with HEEDS
Quickly drive innovation and discover better designs
Automate design exploration with HEEDS
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Automate processes
Enhance product development by enabling automated workflows and seamless data exchange. Process automation features let users evaluate any design variant with a single click, streamlining the entire workflow. This automation facilitates more straightforward and efficient exploration of the design space downstream, paving the way for innovation and optimization.
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Distribute execution
Streamline the entire distributed design process and unify the results of design space exploration. Enable the efficient utilization of your current hardware assets, including local and remote systems, clusters and cloud computing resources. Ensure that all available computational power is leveraged effectively.
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Search with efficiency
HEEDS’ advanced design space exploration capabilities employ both global and local search strategies that evolve as the system gains insights into a design space. It’s created for all users—without the need for deep knowledge in algorithmic searches. It incorporates user intuition to enhance the search process, a method that efficiently discovers superior design families, optimizing simulation time and reducing costs.
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Gain insights for decision-making
Simplify the process of understanding how variations in input factors affect chosen designs, and streamline the decision-making process during reviews by enabling quick, well-informed choices and accurately forecasting outcomes.
Create a path toward better designs
Use during product development
HEEDS can be used by everyone involved in product development—as it’s not aimed solely at experts in statistics and optimization.
Expedite time-to-market
HEEDS helps companies accelerate their design process and deliver more innovative products faster. The search functionality within HEEDS is proven to thoroughly search for more design options in less time.
Seamlessly integrate
HEEDS seamlessly integrates with a wide range of commercial CAD and CAE platforms, as well as proprietary software, to enhance its compatibility and ease-of-use in various design and analysis workflows.
Inform decision-making
HEEDS uncovers insights and identifies designs that are ready for production, effectively creating a digital twin for real-world manufacturing applications.
Bring your designs up to speed—fast
Automate and accelerate with HEEDS
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Advanced automation
Automate the product design and development process and integrate seamlessly with various simulation tools and platforms. Support modifications to geometry, updates to simulation models and accommodate both co-simulation and sequential workflows.
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High-performance computing
Utilize efficient licensing, high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud resources to operate continuously and make the most of virtual simulations. HEEDS allows for round-the-clock simulation runs.
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AI-enhanced search
Enhance optimization processes by integrating accuracy-aware AI within a hybrid-adaptive search framework. This technology learns from current and past data to improve future design strategies.
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Multi-disciplinary optimization
Simultaneously incorporate various engineering disciplines to promote a comprehensive optimization strategy. Ensure a holistic consideration of interdependencies across different fields.
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Leverage existing hardware
Optimize the use of all hardware resources—local, remote, clusters and cloud computing.
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Downstream design space exploration
HEEDS streamlines the evaluation process to enable effortless assessment—with one click. This automation enables straightforward and efficient exploration of the design space and enhances productivity and innovation.
Client success is our success
CFD has been the backbone of PacMar Technologies’ engineering advantage in the marine industry, and it’s really helped us accelerate our design process to get to working prototypes. PacMar is pushing the limits of the CFD code, and Applied CAx support helps facilitate it.
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I greatly appreciate Applied CAx’s focus on providing practical solutions to real-world engineering problems, customer support and world-class training courses. They are a true partner in helping us expand our digital capabilities.
Applied CAx has been instrumental in providing advice and guidance when making critical decisions and implementing the correct solution to support our business processes. In an emerging industry such as Fusion, we face unique challenges every day. Applied has helped us pave the way in the digital transformation journey for this industry.
Most larger firms struggle to understand our unique desires. Not Applied CAx. It’s as if they intuitively grasp why we’re not like the competition—and why that matters. This collaboration, along with a bent for action, is the underpinning of our Engineering Digital Transformation.
AppliedCAx has been fantastic in helping us scale our growing business with the necessary software tools appropriately and cost effectively. Additionally, and on multiple occasions, Applied has been invaluable to us by providing immediate, quick turn-around licensing requests that proved vital in being able to serve our customers.
Applied CAX has been the definition of a strategic partner to X-Energy.
They have demonstrated their expertise in both the technology as well as the unique challenges in the Nuclear Industry daily. Our company faces immense challenges in adopting innovative digital engineering capabilities, and the thought leadership and executive engagement from Applied CAx has made all of the difference and accelerated our adoption of these cutting-edge tools and processes.
The future success of X-Energy with respect to Design, Analysis, Build, and Operations has been positively impacted and strengthened by our partnership with Applied CAx and their team.
