19 Facts About Ansys

Ansys, Inc is an American company based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Ansys was founded in 1970 by John Swanson, who sold his interest in the company to venture capitalists in 1993.

Ansys became a component of the NASDAQ-100 index on December 23, 2019.

Idea for Ansys was first conceived by John Swanson while working at the Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory in the 1960s.

Ansys founded Ansys under the name Swanson Analysis Systems Inc the next year, working out of his farmhouse in Pittsburgh.

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Ansys went public in 1996, raising about $46 million in an initial public offering.

Ansys develops and markets engineering simulation software for use across the product life cycle.

Ansys is used to determine how a product will function with different specifications, without building test products or conducting crash tests.

Ansys develops software for data management and backup, academic research and teaching.

In 1980, Apple II was released, allowing Ansys to convert to a graphical user interface in version 4 later that year.

Version 4 of the Ansys software was easier to use and added features to simulate electromagnetism.

Ansys began integrating its software with CAD software, such as Autodesk.

In 1996, Ansys released the DesignSpace structural analysis software, the LS-DYNA crash and drop test simulation product, and the Ansys Computational Fluid Dynamics simulator.

Ansys added parallel processing support for PCs with multiple processors.

Ansys released its Probabilistic Design System and DesignXplorer software products, which both deal with probabilities and randomness of physical elements.

In May 2020, Ansys joined Microsoft, Dell and Lendlease on the steering committee of the Digital Twin Consortium, which aims to advance the use of digital twin technology.

Ansys collaborated with the US Army and L3Harris to advance the use of FACE technical standard.

In May 2021, Ansys acquired Phoenix Integration, Inc for an undisclosed amount.

Ansys began supporting Arm-based Graviton2 Processors, first time that Ansys' EDA semiconductor simulation solutions were made available on the Arm Neoverse architecture.