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In the past, engineered products were designed with mechanical and electrical CAD tools, simulated and validated for correctness with CAE tools, prototypes were fabricated and tested, and products were then manufactured at scale in factories. This process required long product cycles often requiring years to build a new product. Today, one can use unlimited computing and storage available from the cloud to do generative design to explore 10,000 design choices in near real-time, verify these products accurately through simulation (eliminating the need to build physical prototypes) and manufacture the products using additive manufacturing and factory automation. In the past, simulation tools were used to model specific physics such as mechanical structures, or fluid dynamics, or electromagnetic interactions by solving second order partial differential equations using numerical methods. Today the simulation tools are being used to solve multi-physics problems (fluid-structure-electromagnetics interactions) at scale using the most complex solvers. We will discuss how AI/Machine Learning and High-Performance Computing can improve engineering simulation. We will also discuss how these technologies are being used to create Digital Twins of complex products.
Prith Banerjee is the Chief Technology Officer of ANSYS where he is responsible for leading the evolution of ANSYS’ Technology strategy and champion the company’s next phase of innovation and growth. Formerly, he was Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of Schneider Electric. Previously, he was Managing Director of Global Technology Research and Development at Accenture. Formerly, he was Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of ABB. Earlier, he was Senior Vice President of Research at HP and Director of HP Labs. Formerly, he was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formerly, he was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and Chairman of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. Prior to that, he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2000, he founded AccelChip, a developer of products for electronic design automation, which was acquired by Xilinx Inc. in 2006. During 2005-2011, he was Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of BINACHIP Inc., a developer of products in electronic design automation. He was listed in the FastCompany list of 100 top business leaders in 2009. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM and IEEE, and a recipient of the 1996 ASEE Terman Award and the 1987 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. He received a B.Tech. in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana.
