Simulation — CAE

HEEDS

Let the algorithm try every option for you

HEEDS is a design space exploration and multidisciplinary optimisation platform that drives any simulation tool to search for optimal designs automatically — turning a handful of manual trials into thousands of algorithmic ones.

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Overview

The usual optimisation routine is to change a few dimensions, run a handful of cases and pick something that looks reasonable. The weakness is obvious: how far you explore depends on the engineer’s experience and patience, and parameter interactions are largely guesswork. HEEDS wraps the simulation process and explores the design space with intelligent search algorithms.

It is solver agnostic: Simcenter, Abaqus, ANSYS or an in-house code — anything callable in batch. For companies with a mature simulation workflow that is the practical part: you do not start over, you plug it in and gain automated optimisation immediately.

Positioning

Design space exploration and MDO platform

Driving method

Batch invocation of external solvers

Compatibility

Simcenter, Abaqus, ANSYS and in-house codes

Optimisation types

Single / multi-objective / robust

Typical industries

Automotive, aerospace, energy, industrial machinery

Key capabilities

Intelligent search

Hybrid search strategies that find better solutions within a fixed compute budget.

Solver independent

Drives any simulation tool callable in batch — no lock-in to one package.

Design space visualisation

Visualises results across multi-dimensional parameter space, exposing sensitivity and trade-offs.

Parallel and distributed

Submits many designs concurrently to make full use of a compute cluster.

Multi-objective optimisation

Optimises conflicting objectives simultaneously and returns the Pareto front for decision making.

Robustness and reliability

Accounts for manufacturing tolerance and operating variability, finding robust rather than fragile optima.

What it delivers

Optimisation moves from a few trials to thousands of evaluations, finding better designs
No need to replace existing tools — plug in and go, with modest investment
Multi-objective trade-offs become explicit and quantified
Accounting for tolerance and variability makes optima practical to build
Frees engineers from repetitive trial runs to focus on judgement

Modules & components

HEEDS Design ExplorationParameter-driven design space sweeps.

HEEDS MDOMulti-objective and multi-constraint optimisation.

HEEDS Robust DesignOptimisation that accounts for uncertainty.

HEEDS Process IntegrationInterface wrapping for third-party simulation tools.

HEEDS Results AnalyticsSensitivity analysis and trade-off visualisation.

Typical applications

Structural lightweightingMultidisciplinary parameter optimisationTolerance-robust designNVH parameter tuningThermal management trade studiesSimulation workflow automation

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