Best Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Software - Page 2

Bechtle PLM is a comprehensive product-lifecycle-management solution and service concept that helps businesses accelerate their time-to-market by strengthening the network of individual business segments and optimizing how they work together. It goes beyond core PLM components of design, production, and replacement parts management by offering a holistic approach that considers the entire IT landscape, including hardware, infrastructure, software, business applications such as BI, CRM, ERP, CAD, PDM, CAM, DMS/ECM, and AI, to create an integrated, turnkey PLM environment. The solution supports all lifecycle phases from beginning-of­-life (product and design development), through middle-of­-life (supplier collaboration, warranty, and product information management), to end-of­-life (recycling, disposal, remarketing) and enables parallel development stages, improved information quality, reduced reliance on physical prototypes, and faster response times.

Vicon Fabrication Software is a powerful, Windows-based application designed to integrate with computer-controlled cutting, processing, and roll-forming machinery, especially in HVAC, coil-line, and plasma fabrication shops. It offers customizable fabrication libraries, direct integration with CAD/CAM systems, and a seamless workflow from part import to machine execution. The software supports coil-lines, roll-formers, cut-to-length lines, plasma/laser cutters, and liner systems, enabling manufacturers to nest, program, track, and manage jobs from a single interface. Its architecture is built for flexibility; shops of all sizes can tailor the libraries to their parts and materials, while optional add-ons allow for importing existing CAD output, streamlining the transition from design to production. Developed in-house and included with Vicon-branded machinery, the fabricator software is engineered to eliminate bottlenecks and reduce programming overhead.

Dive CAE is a cloud-native computational fluid dynamics software platform that enables engineers to simulate complex fluid behaviors, such as free-surface flow, multiphase interactions, heat transfer, and moving machinery, using a mesh-free Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method. It runs entirely in the browser and on high-performance computing infrastructure, so users don’t need local hardware or installation. The mesh-free approach allows for modeling of complex geometry, surface tension, non-Newtonian fluids, and transient flows without the time-consuming meshing and tuning required by conventional CFD. Onboarding is fast (typically under one day), and the software supports parallel design-of-experiment workflows that deliver multiple iterations in hours rather than days. Dive CAE emphasizes collaboration, license simplicity (one licence for all users), transparent cost control, data usage governance, and scalability via cloud infrastructure.

CoTherm is a coupling and process automation software that acts as an ambassador between CAE programs. CoTherm makes process automation simple. It is useful for running sensitivity studies, a design of experiments, or running multiple CAE models as part of a single process. This capability can streamline pre-processing, transient analysis thermal analysis, or post-processing. With a CoTherm software license, we provide templates for common coupling or automation tasks. CoTherm includes optimization capabilities that determine which inputs used in your design are the best choice. Any CAE analysis can be optimized using the general optimization sub-processes. CoTherm's mathematically rigorous solution (including multiple global and local methods) removes guesswork and complexity from your design process. CoTherm natively supports many popular thermal and CFD codes. CoTherm's powerful tools allow the coupling of any software that can run in the command line or with config files.

The Capital Electrical and Electronics (E/E) systems development software portfolio encompasses E/E system and software architectures, network communications, and embedded software development capabilities. Efficiently design, engineer, and validate complex products in the context of a digital twin. Today's E/E systems are characterized by increasing complexity. They are reliant on the robust integration of electrical, electronic, and software systems. Use Capital, a comprehensive E/E systems development solution, to help you efficiently develop smart products. Radically increase automation with a comprehensive model-based digital twin. Seamlessly bridge the boundaries between engineering domains. Connect solutions in an open ecosystem with flexible, easy-to-use tools. Optimize electrical and electronic system (E/E system) architectures against targets such as cost, weight, and bandwidth.

DYNAFORM Die Simulation Software is the sixth-generation DYNAFORM product. It provides a user-friendly and intuitive interface with a streamlined design. The analysis process is fully based on the stamping process, which requires less CAE knowledge and minimal geometry and element operations. This latest release offers features and improvements such as an intuitive and streamlined interface, a tree structure to manage operations, a simulation data manager, customized icon grouping for drop-down menu functions, separate and independent applications, unified pre-and post-processing, multi-window view, access functions using right mouse button clicks, and more. It has support for large forming simulation models, a geometry manager, a process wizard for blank size engineering, minimal geometry and element operations, a new material library window, new draw bead shapes and library, and a coordinate system manager.