HEEDS: discover better designs, faster

This 12-page Siemens brochure introduces HEEDS as a design space exploration tool that works on top of existing CAD and CAE models. It explains the shift from using simulation only to check a finished design towards defining the performance you want and letting the software search for designs that achieve it. The brochure carries a 2018 copyright, so its wording and screens reflect that period.

What the document covers

• The move from troubleshooting and validation to simulation-led design, illustrated with a worked cooling design example
• Process automation: workflows that combine 1D, 2D and 3D simulation and cost-estimating tools, with geometry updates and re-meshing
• Distributed execution across Windows and Linux machines, clusters, HPC and cloud resources
• The SHERPA search approach, which combines global and local strategies and needs no model simplification or surrogates
• Insight tools for performance trade-offs, sensitivity to design variables and robustness to manufacturing tolerances
• Support, training and consulting services, with user quotes from several industries

Who it is for

Simulation engineers, CAE managers and design leads who already run analyses and want to understand how automated design exploration could fit their process, including teams without optimisation specialists.