AI-powered performance engineering: build with confidence
Integrated simulation for breakthrough innovation
From conceptualization through end-of-life management, we have reached unprecedented levels in product development complexity due to converging mechanical, electrical and software systems.
As such, the potential for misalignment between teams increases – decisions made on one team hinders progress on others and results in development delays or last-minute changes that can be costlier and time-consuming to fix. Operating in these functional silos with disconnected tools only creates barriers to multi-domain collaboration that is essential for modern product development.
Additionally, the need for products to meet increasingly stringent sustainability requirements, safety regulations and customization demands, as well as be intelligent and interconnected means the traditional approach won’t cut it anymore.
Organizations often find themselves investing in expensive and time-consuming experimental trials that exhaust valuable resources and require specialized expertise, reducing return-on-investment (ROI).
The goal must be to turn complexity into a competitive advantage where speed is an asset, and promising concepts can quickly prove to be viable, produceable and appealing to your targeted audience. By providing your teams with AI, HPC and simulation technology for data-driven discovery, you enable them to bypass traditional limits and deliver truly transformative products.
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The transformation of engineering begins at the intersection of simulation and artificial intelligence (AI), scaled with high-performance computing (HPC), and integrated into the entire lifecycle where silos are broken down.
This all starts with the Digital Twin.
The Digital Twin: combining the real and digital worlds
The Digital Twin is the starting point for insight and action. It provides a living virtual representation of a product or process connecting directly to the real world to mirror behavior and performance. When the impact of every design decision is clearly visible to everyone, organizations can design with confidence, anticipate outcomes and continuously optimize performance.
At the heart of the Digital Twin is simulation and testing. Simulation enables engineers to tackle multi-physics complexity by visualizing their products and process designs across all domains simultaneously. This proves beneficial early in the design cycle as it facilitates the exploration of more innovative design options that engineers would otherwise not consider.
Simulation helps:
- Explore vast design spaces
- Optimize for multiple objectives
- Validate product concepts faster
- Predict performance under various conditions and scenarios
- Reduce the need for expensive physical prototypes
- Avoid late discovery of costly errors
- Ensure all parts function seamlessly
In combination with virtual simulation, physical testing enables engineers to verify and validate that the product works in the real world and provides the expected performance while following regulatory and sustainability requirements. Simulation and testing create closed-loop connections between the virtual and physical worlds by leveraging real data from physical tests or field use in the virtual simulation models.
Simulation generates vast amounts of data, but how do you effectively harness it for competitive advantage? This is where AI and HPC become indispensable. When you have the most flexible, scalable and efficient HPC solution available, you’re opening the door to breakthrough opportunities that traditional methods could never match.
AI accelerates the discovery of optimal solutions by intelligently exploring vast design spaces, automating routine analyses, and uncovering non-intuitive relationships that human engineers might miss. On top of that, AI can reduce iteration cycles, optimize automation and provide engineers with insights early in the process when they are most useful. HPC enables increasingly complex multi-physics simulations to run in compressed timeframes, enabling fast training of AI algorithms with high-quality information and data.
However, with the abundance of data and information, it’s crucial to also capture the context and design intent that gives meaning to that data across the product lifecycle.
Connecting simulation, testing and real-world performance data within a Digital Thread framework provides the necessary context for AI-guided decision-making with confidence.
Differentiators like AI-powered engineering, knowledge graph technology, and high-performance computing have the potential to accelerate product development and unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth.
Peter A. Bilello, President & Chief Executive Officer, CIMdata
Simcenter: mastering performance engineering complexity
Fueling integrated and AI-powered engineering performance, the three pillars of Simcenter will help you successfully navigate the complexities of product development.
Comprehensive
- Understand product performance at every stage, from early concept exploration to operational insights, with complete, multi-physics simulation and testing
- Enable faster selection of the most promising architectures and concepts using simulation early in development
- Optimize a product’s systems, subsystems and components using simulation during the design phase
- Enable real-time insights and enhanced productivity in operations
- Reduce costly prototypes
The comprehensive pillar applies to all phases of development and usage and is foundational for training AI models by generating vast amounts of data.
Intelligent
- Explore new and innovative designs with generative engineering
- Boost productivity through AI‑assisted modeling and automated workflows
- Rapidly evaluate designs leveraging AI models trained using physics-based and real-world data
Simulation augmented with AI allows this exploration to take place at the speed needed to have true business impact.
Adaptive
- Scale and evolve resources to maximize agility
- Integrate simulation into the digital thread
- Leverage HPC to speed up simulation and AI workloads
- Protect investments with open integration to external and in-house tools
Adaptive simulation technologies make your teams agile, your resources scalable and your solutions future-proof.
Achieve more with Siemens’ integrated simulation solution
With Siemens open, flexible and scalable portfolio of the best predictive simulation and test solutions augmented with AI and HPC, companies are supported at every step in their digital journey as they build the products of the future.
Create Faster
Simulate at the speed of design, accelerate exploration and automation with AI-powered engineering, and go from concept to reality faster than ever before.
Build Smarter
Build, automate and deploy AI at scale for a sustainable digital enterprise, which can optimize operations, minimize environmental impact and foster long-term economic and social value, using AI-embedded design and simulation workflows, industry-leading data analytics and AI platform.
Scale Beyond
The world’s most comprehensive digital twin is made possible through the convergence of simulation, AI and high-performance computing. Bring to market products that are more powerful, greener, faster, quieter, lighter, and more sustainable than ever before.
With integrated and AI-powered performance engineering, Simcenter™ helps organizations unlock value for their businesses and deliver better products with speed and confidence. With Siemens’ integrated and AI-powered performance engineering solution, you can achieve:
- Early and optimal product architecture definition
- Fast and accurate simulations for early design decisions
- Efficient and unified simulation workflows to deliver multi-physics performance
- Concurrent design for manufacturability and performance
- Accelerated system performance verification
- End-to-end systems modeling from concept to deployment
- Best designs at every stage with intelligent design space exploration
- Managed and traceable simulation processes, making data ready for AI
- Fast and flexible on-demand compute to scale simulation and AI workloads
Integrated simulation and AI-powered performance engineering FAQs
1. How does Siemens’ Integrated and AI-powered Performance Engineering help my business achieve a better ROI?
Siemens’ Integrated and AI-powered Performance Engineering solution, Simcenter, reduces costly physical prototyping, minimizes late-stage design changes and accelerates time-to-market by enabling early and continuous validation of product concepts. By leveraging comprehensive simulation, AI, and HPC within a digital twin framework, you can make data-driven decisions faster, reduce resource-intensive experimental trials and ensure your products meet market demands efficiently, ultimately boosting your return on investment.
2. My company is just starting its digital transformation journey. Is Siemens’ simulation solution too advanced for us?
Not at all! Siemens’ Integrated Performance Engineering solutions are designed to be flexible and scalable, supporting companies at every stage of their digital journey. Whether you’re looking to integrate specific simulation tools, explore AI-assisted design or build a comprehensive Digital Twin, our open architecture allows for phased adoption and seamless simulation integration with existing workflows, ensuring you can evolve at your own pace and achieve tangible benefits from day one.
3. How does the comprehensive Digital Twin truly differ from traditional simulation tools?
While traditional simulation focuses on analyzing specific aspects of a product, the comprehensive Digital Twin goes further by creating a living, multi-domain virtual representation of your product that mirrors its real-world behavior. It integrates data from simulation, testing and real-world operations, providing continuous insights across the entire product lifecycle. This holistic approach allows for predictive performance optimization, AI-guided decision-making and a deeper understanding of product behavior than standalone simulation tools can offer.
4. Our engineering teams are already using various tools. How does Siemens’ Integrated and AI-powered Performance Engineering fit into our existing ecosystem?
Siemens’ Integrated and AI-powered Performance Engineering solution is built on an open and adaptive framework designed for seamless integration. It enhances your existing toolchain by providing a connected environment for multi-domain collaboration, data sharing, and workflow automation. The solution supports various industry standards for interoperability and integrates with your existing design tools and simulation solvers. Our solutions leverage HPC to scale your computational power and integrate AI to augment human expertise, ensuring that your teams can continue to use their preferred tools while benefiting from a more cohesive, intelligent and efficient product development process
