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AI-driven engineering for system architectures

Siemens Digital Industries Software recently released its Simcenter™ Studio software, a web application designed to discover better system architectures, faster. Simcenter Studio offers a distinctive advantage for designing products by finding the most suitable system architectures in a shorter time than can be done otherwise, searching through thousands of possibilities using artificial intelligence and system simulation. The results are automatically generated to meet the user’s specific design requirements. This AI-based generation of system architectures is the latest addition to the Simcenter™ software in Siemens‘ Xcelerator™ portfolio. Engineers working on time-sensitive projects generally rely on individual expertise and known rules, and usually evaluate only a limited number of system architecture variants before choosing the ‘right’ concept. Simcenter Studio allows them to overcome this constraint by using AI-based techniques to expand the design space and perform rapid evaluations of system concepts – so organisations can identify the most promising designs earlier in the development programme. This new generative engineering approach to design complex systems serves well for various industries, including the automotive, aerospace and heavy machinery industries. “The expansion of generative methods to system

architectures will provide a clear competitive advantage for companies that design complex systems,” said Peter Bilello, President and CEO, CIMdata. “With this new offering, Siemens has demonstrated leadership in bringing together AI and system simulation for the conceptual stages of system design.” The integration of system simulation inside computational notebooks in Simcenter Studio is unique to the market and is complemented with an automatic generation of controllers to enable realistic trade studies. This allows for reliable and comprehensive evaluation of the most important key performance indicators in business and engineering decisions.

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Simcenter Studio uses AI-based techniques enabling engineers to expand the design space and evaluate system concepts quickly.