May 3, 2016 2 min read

CANONSBURG – Ansys Inc. said Tuesday it reached an agreement to expand General Electric Corp.’s use of Ansys’ engineering simulation solutions to accommodate its November 2015 acquisition of Alstom’s Power and Grid businesses.

Southpointe-based Ansys said in a news release the pact enables GE to realize synergistic savings through tool consolidation, while still growing the number of Ansys solutions used in product development and analysis, product quality and testing.

The deal also expands beyond product development into operations, a key element to GE’s Predix Industrial Internet platform. Predix is the world’s only industrial cloud offering designs specifically for industrial data and analytics across such industries as aviation, transportation, oil and gas and health care. Organizations use this platform to create innovative industrial internet applications that turn real-time operational data into insights for better and faster decision making while maximizing machine efficiency.

Ansys’ industry-leading portfolio of engineering simulation software will collaborate with GE Power Engineering to pilot “simulation as a service,” enabling companies to analyze the performance of smart machines in real-world operating conditions, then make confident predictions about future performance.

“By collaborating with Ansys, we’re better able to deliver the world the most advanced products to power the world and support the GE Digital Thread strategy,” said John Lammas, vice president, gas power systems technology and chief technology officer of GE Power.

“The industry is in the midst of a revolution in manufacturing and product innovation,” said Walid Abu-Hadba, chief product officer at Ansys. “With our new agreement in hand, GE and Ansys will help to usher in this new age of Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, enabling organizations to innovate like never before while delivering on their promise to deliver the most robust and reliable products ever imagined.”