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HEEDS Connect enables collaboration anywhere with anyone

HEEDS Connect adds global collaboration and flexible resource management to an already powerful design space exploration and optimization tool – HEEDS.

HEEDS Connect is a web-based tool designed to share, monitor, and review HEEDS study results. It enables teams to collaborate efficiently no matter where they are. Access permissions and customized dashboards allow users to visualize the data relevant to them and share their own results with colleagues and external stakeholders.

Owners of projects can easily assign different access levels to individuals or groups:

  • Full control – to start the study and delegate access to others
  • Inspect – to monitor progress and analyze results
  • Informed – for external stakeholders to monitor progress and provide feedback
HEEDS Connect access levels

HEEDS Connect accelerates design sign-off by allowing users to connect and collaborate from anywhere. This speeds up analysis and optimization and ensures that results can be quickly viewed and approved by key people. The distributed architecture enables sharing of computing resources across multiple assets – workstations, laptops, HPC clusters, or virtual machines.

Simply set up your workflow in HEEDS, then link it to the HEEDS Connect server and install the HEEDS Connect agent on each asset.

Deploy local HEEDS to a remote HEEDS Connect server

HEEDS Connect is managed through three unique modules:

Personal Workspace

Each user has their own personal workspace with an overview of their own studies and those shared with them. From here it’s easy to see the status of each project and ensure that work stays on track.

Study Dashboard

Collaborative post processing of studies is enabled through dashboards which give team members access to the properties of the study.

Resource monitoring

Here, users monitor HEEDS Connect agents and their computational resources such as CPU and disk usage so that changes can be made if necessary to speed up processing.

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This blog is the first in a three-part series that introduces HEEDS Connect and its capabilities. Stay tuned for the next blog!

HEEDS Connect is a web-based tool that enables teams to seamlessly share, monitor, and review HEEDS study results. Discover how HEEDS can accelerate your product development process—by automating analysis workflows, optimizing computational resources, and uncovering innovative design solutions.

Jenny Barsotti

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This article first appeared on the Siemens Digital Industries Software blog at https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/simcenter/heeds-connect-enables-collaboration/