PITTSBURGH- Ansys has announced the acquisition of Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software Rocky DEM. With this acquisition, Ansys adds Rocky and a skilled team of developers, application support technicians and customer-facing staff in Brazil, Spain, and the United States.
The transaction is not expected to have a material impact on Ansys’ consolidated financial statements in 2023.
Particle modeling spans many industries and applications. The particles can consist of medical tablets, food snacks, agriculture seeds, powders, and even fibers used in filtration devices. Improving product quality is a challenge for industry leaders. They need to find solutions to help accelerate their decision-making related to design, manufacturing, and operation.
Benefits of Acquisition:
Rocky quickly and accurately simulates the dynamic flow behavior of discrete solids and particle-laden free-surface flows in multiple industries. Its simulations provide powerful insight to help reduce waste, improve product quality, increase product uniformity. It helps predict the performance and durability of equipment during operation, meet resource management, and address sustainability concerns.
Rocky was a subsidiary of Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software (ESSS), a long-term Ansys Channel Partner. It was a developer of engineering software dedicated to modeling discrete mechanics problems. Ansys’ acquisition of Rocky builds on the companies’ long-term partnership and joint particle modeling workflow announced in 2021.
Rocky’s software has specific strengths in GPU computing and applying particle methods to multiphysics simulations. Wide variety of cross-industry applications that involve discrete solids of any size and shape, this software can be helpful.
“Our longstanding relationship with Ansys has not only expanded Rocky’s reach to new sectors and industries, but also given engineers access to a technology to rapidly run large, highly-realistic simulations that include accurate particle details,” said Dr. Alexander Potapov, chief technology officer at Rocky.
This acquisition will ensure that Ansys customers have long-term, uninterrupted access to powerful high-fidelity particle modelling that is deeply integrated with other Ansys solutions to solve an expanding set of problems involving discrete particles. Incorporating Rocky technology into the Ansys portfolio will also facilitate long-term synergies in the Ansys portfolio. It will also lead to inclusion of Rocky into the PyAnsys framework.
