New Release: Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604

Real-Time Collaborative Workflow Editing for Engineering Teams

Engineering teams today are under constant pressure to explore more design alternatives, faster—all while managing increasingly complex, multidisciplinary systems. Yet collaboration often becomes the bottleneck. Disconnected workflows, lack of real-time visibility, and fragmented compute resource management make it difficult for distributed teams to work together efficiently and confidently.

Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604 tackles these challenges head-on. This release introduces breakthrough capabilities for real-time collaborative editing, AI‑accelerated design exploration, and centralized compute resource management, enabling teams to explore, iterate, and decide together—online and in real time.

Packed with powerful enhancements, Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604 transforms how engineering teams collaborate. Whether you’re building multidisciplinary system models, running AI-driven exploration studies, or coordinating complex workflows across organizations, this release removes friction from collaboration and accelerates results. Teams can now edit workflows together in real time, align instantly on decisions, and move from exploration to insight faster than ever before.

Real‑Time Collaborative Workflow Authoring—Beyond Parameter Editing

Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604 delivers comprehensive workflow authoring capabilities that go far beyond simple parameter editing: Structural workflow editing: Modify groups, analyses, and connections directly in the web interface.

• Portal-specific settings: Configure analysis-specific settings for your workflows without leaving the collaborative environment.

• Loop configuration: Edit loop execution and output settings with immediate persistence across all users.

• Real-time collaboration: Instant synchronization to ensure consistency across your entire team.

• Seamless Simcenter HEEDS MDO integration: Changes made in Simcenter HEEDS Connect are immediately reflected in Simcenter HEEDS MDO, maintaining perfect alignment between environments.

Engineering teams can now collaboratively shape workflow structures, respond instantly to evolving requirements, and continuously refine their design‑exploration processes — all directly in the web environment. This marks a significant leap toward fully cloud‑native workflow management, delivering the agility of the cloud without sacrificing the power and flexibility engineers rely on.

Evaluate multidisciplinary systems with a single click

Designing complex systems with interconnected disciplines has always been a challenge. How do you evaluate the response of a multidisciplinary system where outputs from one discipline feed into another? How do you propagate variables and files through a hierarchy of interconnected analyses?

Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604 introduces the Evaluation Matrix, a powerful new capability that transforms multidisciplinary system analysis.

Previously, engineers had to manually coordinate multiple studies and transfer data between them—a time-consuming and error-prone process. The Evaluation Matrix eliminates this friction by enabling system-level analyses with automatic variable propagation.

Key capabilities include:

• Efficiency built in: Feed-forward variable propagation automatically propagates outputs from higher-level studies to inputs of dependent studies.

• Maintain consistency: Shared variable management links inputs across multiple studies throughout your system.

• One click execution: Run your entire multidisciplinary system analysis with one click — no iterative loops, just clean hierarchical evaluation.

• Gain deeper insights: Streamlined system analysis enables you to evaluate the response of interconnected disciplines efficiently, understanding how your system behaves as a whole.

Evaluate complex multidisciplinary systems with confidence, eliminating manual data transfer and enabling true system-level design exploration.

Visualize and manage AI-accelerated studies

Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604 introduces comprehensive AI simulation predictor integration that makes AI-accelerated studies fully visible and manageable in the collaborative web environment.

Explore boosted designs and configurations

• Clear design distinction: Filter and visualize predicted vs. simulated designs in database tables and scatter plots with custom coloring.

• Comprehensive model information: View prediction model parameters including initial designs, training models, prediction levels, and constraint confidence settings.

• Grouped parameter editing: Review boost parameters across multiple analyses simultaneously.

• Input/output visualization: Explore available and selected inputs and outputs for each boosted analysis.

• Multi-selection comparison: Select multiple boosted items and compare their properties concurrently, with common values clearly displayed.

Engineers can now fully leverage AI Simulation Predictor capabilities with Simcenter HEEDS Connect, accelerating design exploration cycles while maintaining complete visibility into model configurations and prediction accuracy.

Centralized compute resource management

Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604 introduces the Managed Resource Catalog, transforming how organizations manage and deploy compute resources across engineering teams:

• Administrator-controlled definitions: Simcenter HEEDS Connect administrators can define and maintain compute resources in a central catalog accessible to all users.

• Eliminate setup errors: Managed resources come with pre-defined analysis of portal configurations, eliminating setup errors.

• Shared Across All HEEDS MDO Users: Resources defined in Simcenter HEEDS Connect can be leveraged by all Simcenter HEEDS MDO users in your organization.

• Define once, apply everywhere: Eliminate duplicate definitions and maintain resource configurations across different installations.

• Reduced configuration errors: Standardized resource configurations eliminate inconsistencies from misaligned copies.

Maintain consistent compute resource configurations across entire engineering organizations, reducing errors and simplifying resource management for everyone.

Cloud-based licensing with named user licenses

Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604 joins the Simcenter Named User License portfolio, bringing cloud-based licensing capabilities to the collaborative design exploration platform:

• Centralized user support: Unique centralized session for each user operation to enable multiple users to work simultaneously without conflicts.

• Session management: View secure identifier session expiry dates and revoke sessions directly from Simcenter HEEDS Connect.

• Seamless cloud integration: Leverage the ease of use of Named User Licensing with automatic session management.

• Simcenter cloud licensing: Simcenter HEEDS Connect now aligns with the broader Simcenter cloud licensing infrastructure.

Teams can now access Simcenter HEEDS Connect with the same cloud-based licensing convenience they enjoy across the Simcenter portfolio, with robust and centralized support for concurrent users.

The bottom line

Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604 represents a significant step forward for engineering teams committed to advancing their collaborative design exploration capabilities:

• Comprehensive workflow editing with real-time collaboration

• Multidisciplinary system evaluation with the new Evaluation Matrix

• AI-accelerated design exploration with full AI simulation predictor integration

• Centralized resource management with the Managed Resource Catalog

• Cloud-based licensing with Named User License support

As a leader in simulation and test solutions, Siemens continues to advance collaborative engineering capabilities that help teams across aerospace, automotive, and industrial equipment industries accelerate innovation. Whether you’re collaborating on complex workflows, evaluating multidisciplinary systems, leveraging AI predictions, or managing compute resources across your organization, Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604 empowers you to explore possibilities faster, work together seamlessly, and deliver better designs — all while collaborating smarter in the cloud.

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Transform your engineering team's collaboration with Simcenter HEEDS Connect 2604. With real-time workflow editing, AI integration, and centralized resource management, your company can accelerate decisions and improve multidisciplinary projects with much greater efficiency. Schedule a meeting with CAEXPERTS and discover how to apply these innovations in practice to contribute to your results.

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