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Manufacturing & Supply-Chain • Robotics & Automation

Visual Components 5.1: 10x Faster AMR Simulation, PhysX 5.5 Physics, and Allen-Bradley PLC Connectivity

Visual Components 5.1 delivers a complete rebuild of its mobile robot navigation stack, enabling hundreds of AMRs and AGVs to run simultaneously with up to 10x faster performance. The release also upgrades the physics engine to PhysX 5.5 for more reliable material flow simulation and adds Allen-Bradley PLC connectivity alongside new virtual commissioning plugins for Nachi and Epson robots.

By Jeff 45 views
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Manufacturing & Supply-Chain • Physical Sciences & Engineering

SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2026: Fill Thin Slot, Angular Displacement Plots, and Pin Connector Force Extraction

SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2026 delivers targeted enhancements across structural, thermal, vibration, and plastics analysis workflows. Key additions include the Fill Thin Slot feature for accurate heat transfer modeling in compact assemblies, angular displacement plotting in degrees or radians, pin connector force extraction in random vibration studies, and a 30% speed boost for injection molding simulations.

By Jeff 43 views
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Chemical & Process Industries • Energy & Power Systems

KBC Petro-SIM v7.6: AI-Integrated Digital Twin Platform Advances Process Simulation for Energy Transition

KBC (A Yokogawa Company) has released Petro-SIM v7.6, a major update to its flagship process simulation platform that combines first-principles physics modeling with AI/ML integration, a new NOMAD blackbox optimization solver, and a Fischer-Tropsch reactor model for sustainable aviation fuel production. The release delivers up to 30% faster solving times for hydroprocessing simulations and introduces advanced polymer modeling powered by Predici.

By Jeff 275 views
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Chemical & Process Industries • Physical Sciences & Engineering

Realis Simulation 2025.2: 50% Faster Combustion CFD, Dual-Fuel H₂/NH₃ Support, and Tighter CFD-FEA Coupling

Realis Simulation 2025.2 delivers a 50% reduction in VECTIS R2DK combustion run times, new dual-fuel auto-ignition capabilities for hydrogen and ammonia blends, and a validated FEARCE-Vulcan thermal model for hydrogen direct-injection engines. The release also adds direct modeFRONTIER coupling for automated DOE workflows and builds on the 95%-faster CFD-FEA heat transfer mapping introduced in 2025.1.

By Jeff 256 views
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Materials Science & Nanotechnology • Physical Sciences & Engineering

Abaqus 2025: Multi-GPU Acceleration, Advanced Wear Modeling, and Expanded Multiphysics Capabilities

Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA has released Abaqus 2025, delivering significant advances in solver performance, contact wear simulation, and multiphysics workflows. Key highlights include multi-GPU acceleration for the iterative sparse solver, DMP scalable eigensolvers for frequency and buckling analysis, and new surface tension modeling capabilities that open the door to solder reflow and microfluidics applications.

By Jeff 813 views
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Physical Sciences & Engineering

OpenFOAM v2512: GAMG Reproducibility, AMI Caching Speedups, and a New Immersed Boundary Method

The December 2025 release of OpenFOAM v2512 delivers targeted improvements to the GAMG solver, introduces AMI stencil caching for 10–30% speedups in moving-mesh simulations, adds a two-layer k-ε wall treatment, and brings a new finite-area Immersed Boundary Method for thin-film modeling. The release also completes the project's migration to GitLab.

By Jeff 310 views
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Electronics & Embedded • Physical Sciences & Engineering

MathWorks R2026a: Simulink Copilot, Agentic Toolkits, and FMU Builder Transform Model-Based Design

MathWorks has released MATLAB and Simulink R2026a, introducing Simulink Copilot for AI-grounded model assistance, the MATLAB and Simulink Agentic Toolkits for autonomous agent-driven workflows via MCP, and the new Simulink FMU Builder for streamlined model exchange. The release marks a significant step toward AI-native simulation environments for embedded systems and control design.

By Jeff 668 views
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Manufacturing & Supply-Chain • Physical Sciences & Engineering

SimScale Launches Engineering AI Agents and Open Workflows Platform for Autonomous Simulation Orchestration

SimScale has opened its Engineering AI agents to all enterprise teams and launched SimScale Workflows, an open platform architecture enabling any solver or custom method to be integrated natively. Together, these releases enable fully autonomous, end-to-end simulation pipelines where AI agents manage the entire engineering process — from CAD preparation to validated reporting — without human handoffs.

By Jeff 680 views
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Manufacturing & Supply-Chain • Robotics & Automation

FANUC ROBOGUIDE Version 10: 64-Bit Architecture, VR Walk-Throughs, and a Modernized UI for Robot Simulation

FANUC has released ROBOGUIDE Version 10, a major upgrade to its offline robot programming and simulation platform featuring 64-bit architecture, immersive VR capabilities, and a redesigned user interface. The update enables engineers to simulate larger, more complex robotic workcells with improved performance and spatial visualization tools.

By Jeff 418 views
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Energy & Power Systems • Physical Sciences & Engineering

AVL Simulation Suite 2025 R2: GPU-Accelerated Battery Safety, Hydrogen Electrolyzer Modeling, and AI-Driven Design Exploration

AVL has released its Simulation Suite 2025 R2, introducing GPU-accelerated battery thermal runaway simulation in FIRE M, a new PEM electrolyzer generator in CRUISE M for hydrogen system modeling, and AI-driven design exploration tools. The update targets electrification and sustainable propulsion development with enhanced fidelity and workflow automation.

By Jeff 314 views
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Electronics & Embedded • Physical Sciences & Engineering

MathWorks Launches MATLAB Copilot and Redesigned Desktop in 2025a Release

MathWorks has released MATLAB and Simulink 2025a, introducing MATLAB Copilot—a generative AI assistant for code generation, debugging, and test automation—alongside a fully redesigned desktop environment. The release also delivers major Simulink enhancements including a Python Code Block, local solvers for model references, and a new Simulink Scope, making it one of the most feature-rich updates to the platform in recent years.

By Jeff 444 views
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Manufacturing & Supply-Chain • Physical Sciences & Engineering

BETA CAE Systems Releases Version 2025.2: AI-Powered CAE Suite with GPU Meshing and New Solver Deck

BETA CAE Systems has launched version 2025.2 of its comprehensive CAE software suite, introducing GPU-accelerated meshing, a new EPILYSIS solver deck, AI-assisted data management, and the portable SPDRM Lite edition. The release spans ANSA, EPILYSIS, META, KOMVOS, SPDRM, FATIQ, ANSERS, and RETOMO with significant performance and workflow improvements.

By Jeff 267 views
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Chemical & Process Industries • Materials Science & Nanotechnology • Physical Sciences & Engineering

COMSOL Multiphysics 6.4 Delivers 5x GPU Speedup, New Granular Flow Module, and LLM-Assisted Simulation

COMSOL releases version 6.4 of its flagship multiphysics simulation platform, featuring NVIDIA cuDSS GPU acceleration delivering 5x speedups, a new DEM-based Granular Flow Module for pharmaceutical and chemical processing applications, a time-explicit dynamic analysis framework for impact and crash simulations, and optional LLM-assisted simulation via GPT-5, DeepSeek, and Google Gemini.

By Jeff 633 views
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Chemical & Process Industries • Materials Science & Nanotechnology • Physical Sciences & Engineering

Ansys Rocky 2026 R1 Advances DEM Simulation with Enhanced Multiphysics and GPU Scalability

Ansys releases Rocky 2026 R1 with automated mixing quality assessment, GPU-accelerated Fluent coupling, and distributed parallel computing for large-scale particle dynamics simulations. The update introduces new capabilities for pharmaceutical, battery manufacturing, and chemical processing applications.

By Jeff 291 views
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Defense & Aerospace • Physical Sciences & Engineering • Robotics & Automation

Siemens PAVE360 Automotive Accelerates Software-Defined Vehicle Development with Pre-Integrated Digital Twin Platform

Siemens launches PAVE360 Automotive in December 2025, a cloud-based digital twin software that reduces SDV development setup time from months to days through pre-integrated system-level virtual environments for ADAS, AD, and IVI systems, with general availability in February 2026.

By Jeff 231 views
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Electronics & Embedded • Physical Sciences & Engineering

Neuromorphic Computing Breakthrough: Brain-Inspired Chips Solve Complex Physics Equations with Unprecedented Energy Efficiency

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed the NeuroFEM algorithm, enabling neuromorphic computers to solve partial differential equations with a fraction of the energy required by traditional supercomputers. This breakthrough could revolutionize high-performance computing for climate modeling, aerospace simulations, and national security applications.

By Jeff 199 views