Digital Twin management platforms
Introduction
ANSYS, Inc. Was founded in 1970 (Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc.) using approximately 1,700 employees. Most with experience in finite element and computational fluid dynamics.
ANSYS develops, markets and provides engineering support through simulation software to predict how a certain product will function and react under a real environment. ANSYS continually develops technology focused on simulation and over time has acquired other software to offer a suite of applications that can be unified for the most complex problems. It also provides support to the industry.
ANSYS, Inc. is engineering simulation software. It is developed to work under the finite element theory for structures and finite volumes for fluids.[1].
In 2008, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States used ANSYS to model the events that led to the start of the collapse of the 7 World Trade Center building during the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Beginnings
In 1963, Dr. John Swanson) worked at the Westinghouse nuclear laboratories in Pittsburgh. He was responsible for the analysis of the nuclear reactor along with all its components. He used computer codes to predict the stress curves of the reactor rotor, which was affected by both pressure and temperature. Over the years, Sawnson refined the method to be used for 3-D geometry, nonlinear analysis for plastic deformations, dynamic analysis, and the codes for heat transfer were advances made by Wilson at Aerojet"). The original code developed by John included axisymmetric 2D analysis, John wanted to combine these advances as well as eliminate codes that were repeated in equation solving and post-processing.
Swanson wanted an integration that would make the code a tool to reduce the calculation and analysis time of the engineers at Westinghouse and other companies, this would save a lot of money for those who used it, but John did not agree, so Swanson left the company in 1969, but not before having sent the code to COSMIC so that he could resume the project later on his own.
Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc was incorporated in the mid-1970s in Swanson's home, however John continued working on STASYS (the software he had been developing for Westinghouse). Over time he became a consultant and not an employee and asked permission to integrate the advances Swanson had made into STASYS and Westinghouse had no problem because what they wanted was an effective solution to their problems. In this way, Swanson's and John's advances came together, accelerating the process and the advances of ANSYS.