Simcenter X Advanced released! Multi-domain engineering simulation at your fingertips
By combining well-established Simcenter modelers and solvers under a unified SaaS entitlement including Teamcenter X data management with embedded AI assistance, Siemens is expanding access to multidisciplinary simulation while enhancing its digital-thread and SaaS leadership across engineering fields.
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The need for efficient engineering simulation software utilization
Engineering simulation offers an efficient way to streamline product development and bring product to markets faster and more cost efficient. However, numerous challenges may prevent you to make the most out of your simulation software investments:
Underutilization of licenses
The underutilization or wasted IT spending for desktop software is a significant cost factor. This means you need deployment methods that ensure always-on accessibility and licensing models for flexible usage. Source: Flexera, 2023
Simulation business case shift
Today, faster-time-to market is the key value driver of simulation. This means you need to maximize the simulation throughput by speeding up every element of the simulation process chain. Source: McKinsey, 2023
Explosion of complexity
High-tech company representatives name product complexity as a major challenge. This complexity of products translates into the necessity to break-down engineering siloes and foster effective, traceable collaboration between engineering disciplines. Source: Aberdeen Group, 2017
You therefore must maximize the effectiveness of how you deploy and use your engineering simulation tools. To stay competitive, you specifically must address the following challenges:
- How do you reduce the complexity of deployment, license, and user management?
- How do you ensure optimal use of engineering simulation software?
- How do you equip your engineers with simulation tools to maximize productivity?
- How do you break down engineering silos to address complex products and unlock the power of digital threads?
Simcenter X – your flexible Software as a Service (SaaS) multi-domain engineering simulation
Today we launch Simcenter X Advanced – a flexible, Software as a Service (SaaS) multi-domain engineering simulation suite. This cloud-powered solution will address all the beforementioned challenges and enable you to unlock the power of performance engineering.
With Simcenter X Advanced…
…as an IT representative
- you will reduce your IT cost of ownership and make the most of your software licenses with a simple, flexible and easily manageable licensing model
- you will quickly and easily onboard simulation software users through a unified cloud entitlement, leveraging a centralized administration console that will streamline and simplify the deployment of our software
…as simulation engineers and CAE team leaders
- you will boost productivity with AI technology and cross-domain collaboration and built-in data management
- you will have access to on-demand capabilities across all major engineering simulations domains (i.e. Computational Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical, Systems simulation and Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization), simple, anytime, anywhere.
Accelerate digital transformation with secure, scalable solutions
Simcenter X – integral part of Siemens Xcelerator and a holistic digital thread vision
Simcenter X does not come in isolation. Embedded into a large ecosystem of industry software, it is an inherent part of Siemens Xcelerator, Siemens’s open digital business platform that serves as a catalyst for accelerating your digitalization journey.
At the same time, we at Siemens have long understood that cloud and SaaS is the way forward. And Software for industry is no exception. Therefore, Siemens is moving the Siemens Xclelerator portfolio to the cloud at a very high pace. From design software, through operations to manufacturing we are offering an increasing portfolio of cloud products under the „X“ brand.
Simcenter X will be an integral part of the Siemens Xcelerator SaaS ecosystem, coexisting with various other DISW products like NX X , Teamcenter X, and many more. This strategic alignment aims to reach our overarching digital thread vision, ensuring a seamless and cohesive user experience and seamless licensing management for your IT teams across all our products.
One place for all: Simcenter X and Siemens Xcelerator offer centralized cloud-licensing
Managing licenses for a large and diverse set of engineering software poses significant challenges and efforts to IT teams. License server configuration becomes complex, deployment of on-premises licenses takes long and user management is difficult with an “anonymous” user profile. All this poses risks to reach the goal of maximizing engineering simulation software ROI by minimizing IT burdens and optimizing license utilization.
The good news is: Simcenter X makes license management simple. With cloud-based entitlement and license management, hosted and owned by Siemens, Simcenter X will
- significantly simplify the use and deployment of our products for both your IT administrator and the end-user.
- make waiting for a new license a thing of the past: The cumbersome process of waiting for the license administrator to generate, verify and send the license file, along with the customer installing and setting up the license server, will now be an old school story,
- enable the IT administrator to manage all products across Siemens Xcelerator through a single unified system known as the Siemens Xcelerator Admin Console
- allow for the allocation of resources across a global pool of users.
But the simplification does not stop at the license deployment and user management…while we were at it, we decided to significantly simplify our engineering simulation pricebook…
Multidisciplinary engineering simulation and design exploration made simple
From Computational Fluid Dynamics, through Mechanical and Systems simulation to MDAO, Simcenter X Advanced allows your engineers and engineering teams to seamlessly set-up and run multidiscipline simulation and MDAO.
Your company will transform engineering simulation thanks to
Results you can trust through established industry-grade simulation technology
To ensure you can gather trustworthy results, Simcenter X gives you access to proven, validated Simcenter simulation technology across domains. As such Simcenter X is based on established and best-rated flagship Simcenter products.
Building Simcenter X on these industry-leading established products guarantees a seamless transition for existing users with reliable simulation results for anyone while giving additional value stemming from cloud-powered technologies.
Collaborate and keep simulations consistent, up-to-date, verifiable and available across domains
At this point another foundational aspect of Simcenter X Advanced comes in handy: That is the provision of integrated data-management through Teamcenter X Essentials. This additional capability comes free of charge with every Simcenter X Advanced seat.
Built in data-management will allow individual engineers, engineering teams and entire organizations to
- organize and store their simulation data in a secure manner
- communicate and collaborate across different departments right where the data is
- keep track of simulation data changes
- leverage a ready-to-use environment that is intuitive and simulation engineer centric
- embed the data-management into a wholistic digital thread with a ready-to-scale PLM solution
Make better decisions, faster with AI
Whether it’s choosing the most suitable modeling approach and applying respective best practices or finding better designs in a multidisciplinary optimization study, Simcenter X Advanced will equip you with AI capabilities to speed up your engineering decisions.
Better modeling decision faster with an integrated AI chat
Simcenter X Advanced will introduce another foundational technology that will be available across all domains: the integration of an AI chat that will assist you in easily exploring and accessing our extensive documentation and knowledge base articles database in their natural language. The AI chat will help you to quickly extract the necessary information for efficient onboarding or expanding your knowledge, as well as exploring simulation options and enhancing your model choices.
Find better designs faster, with AI-augmented optimization
Simcenter X Advanced paired with Simcenter X Tokens will grant you access to Simcenter HEEDS’s AI simulation predictor. This accuracy-aware AI learns from past simulations to guide future ones and replace physics-based simulations with AI predictions where appropriate during an optimization study. With no expertise and optimization or AI technology you can easily accelerate design exploration, significantly reducing optimization times.
Learn more about AI-enhanced MDAO
Maximize accessibility and global license utilization
Simcenter X Advanced combines named-user licensing with tokens
Simcenter X is designed to enhance license utilization on a global scale, ensuring that engineering teams can access the software, solvers and advanced capabilities whenever they need it. This capability is crucial for maintaining productivity, especially in environments where model setup and analysis are time-sensitive.
By implementing a named-user entitlement, users have guaranteed 24/7 access to do model setup and results analysis in the tools they are entitled to. This prevents issues like license hogging – commonly observed with shared flexible license pools, which often leads to frustrating denials for users who require immediate access.
On the other hand, for compute intense tasks like meshing, solving or to access advanced modeling capabilities you don’t want to tie a license investment to a specific named-user as it would lead to costly idle-times. Therefore, Simcenter X Advanced combines the named-user license with a flexible, universal, and globally shared token pool, to grant users access to advanced capabilities and solver technology.
This flexibility of a shared global token pool is combined with a controlled token allocation to individuals or groups. The approach not only optimizes access but also supports collaboration across different regions, making it easier for teams to work together seamlessly. At the same time, it allows for a more controlled distribution of license access across teams, ensuring that resources are used efficiently.
Enabling users to immediately access advanced modeling capabilities through universal Simcenter X Tokens means no waiting time for a dedicated (evaluation) license, fostering the exploration of novel simulation methodologies. This enables engineering innovation at zero financial risk and without any time delays.
Simcenter X – HPC & remote desktop offers cloud-hosted single-click HPC for CFD
While the new Simcenter X Advanced and Simcenter X Tokens enable you to run CFD simulations on your on-premises hardware with a local installation of Simcenter STAR-CCM+, the already established Simcenter X HPC & remote desktop solution augments this simulation deployment with a complete cloud-hosted solution. Simcenter X HPC & remote desktop means instant zero-install access to Simcenter STAR-CCM+ in your browser and single-click simulation job execution straight form within Simcenter STAR-CCM+ on Siemens managed HPC infrastructure.
Simcenter X HPC & remote desktop capabilities are enabled through Credits. In contrast to tokens for Simcenter X Advanced, which are checked out from a pool and checked back in when the job is finished, credits are time-based and get consumed when used. Therefore, credits offer the ultimate pay–as-you-go option, incorporating all cost into an hourly rate.
As such, Simcenter X HPC & Remote Desktop perfectly augments Simcenter X Advanced for CFD users. With its high flexibility it enables quick responses to changes in demand for HPC resources.
Transform engineering with Simcenter X
Let‘s summarize this exiting milestone for the engineering simulation community and look at Simcenter X at a glance.
Simcenter X
- fosters seamless multidiscipline simulation with a single license
- makes license management simple through centrally managed cloud-licensing
- increases accessibility with named-user license for pre-and postprocessing
- maximizes flexibility with a managed pool of tokens to access solvers and advanced capabilities
- is based on trusted flagship Simcenter simulation technology enabling existing Simcenter users a seamless transition, and create reliable simulation results for everyone
- fosters collaboration across teams with integrated scalable data-management
- helps to make smart modeling decisions faster with an integrated AI chat
- lets you find better designs faster through AI-augmented design exploration and optimization
- maximizes flexibility with pay-as-you-go credits for Siemens-hosted HPC to address peak loads and minimize CAPEX investments for CFD
The time is now to transform your engineering simulation and minimize IT burdens – with Simcenter X Advanced.
or, if you are already a Siemens customer, simply contact your Siemens account manager
When failure is not an option: Designing a micro gas turbine in context of emergency power generation
In our demonstrator study “When failure is not an option: Designing a micro gas turbine in context of emergency power generation” we put Simcenter X Advanced for multi-domain simulation to the test. The result: A real world engineering example of an end-to-end design workflow established with Simcenter X Advanced.
