Discover better designs, faster
Simulation alone is no longer enough. Leading manufacturers need to explore hundreds of design possibilities, evaluate trade-offs and find optimal solutions — without manual iteration or specialist optimisation knowledge. Simcenter HEEDS takes engineers beyond traditional CAE validation to performance-driven innovation, using intelligent design-space exploration to automatically discover better, higher-performing designs in a fraction of the time.
Why HEEDS
It changes the simulation paradigm — from Design → Simulate → Evaluate → Redesign (repeat) to Define performance → Explore the design space → Automatically discover optimal designs. HEEDS helps you reduce development time, increase innovation and design quality, lower prototyping and redesign cost, maximise the value of your existing CAE tools, and make confident engineering decisions early.
What makes HEEDS unique
- Process automation — connect any CAD, FEA, CFD, 1D or MBD (and in-house) tool, automatically modify geometry, meshes and materials, run co-simulation or sequential workflows, and build reusable templates.
- Distributed execution — intelligently use local machines, servers, HPC clusters and cloud, parallelising tasks and supporting unlimited load cases to keep hardware busy 24/7.
- Efficient search powered by SHERPA — a hybrid, adaptive algorithm that needs no tuning, works with complex, nonlinear, noisy models, avoids surrogate fitting, and finds optimal design families in fewer runs.
- Insight & discovery — compare hundreds of variants, identify parameter sensitivity, visualise Pareto fronts, evaluate robustness against tolerances, and find design families rather than a single point solution.
Benefits
- Discover optimal designs faster
- Reduce simulation workload and manual operations
- Improve product performance and innovation
- Lower development cost and physical prototypes
- Enable smarter decisions with deeper insight
- Make advanced optimisation accessible to every engineer