Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Amsterdam , 2025 https://cdfam.com/amsterdam-2025/
Organization SimScale
Presenter: David Heiny CEO & Co-Founder
In this presentation from CDFAM Amsterdam 2025, David Heiny, co-founder and CEO of SimScale, outlines a pragmatic approach to integrating AI into engineering workflows. Drawing from conversations with engineering leaders and data collected from a recent industry survey, he shares key insights into why widespread adoption of AI in core engineering remains limited—despite significant advances in generative design, simulation acceleration, and surrogate modeling.
The talk explores:
The structural complexity of modern engineering organizations
Why conventional AI success in image generation or code translation hasn't translated to simulation workflows
A layered view of how AI tools are beginning to augment specific stages of the product development cycle
Heiny introduces SimScale’s approach to cloud-native simulation, including the use of frontier models for automating setup and interpretation, and the deployment of physics-based AI surrogates for fast, scalable parametric optimization. A live demonstration showcases how AI agents can assist in simulation setup and design evaluation directly within SimScale's platform.
Additional topics include:
AI adoption trends from a 300-leader survey
The role of data structuring and cloud infrastructure in enabling automation
Use cases from industry and academia, including work on snap-fit prediction, pump optimization, and native integration of implicit geometry via nTop
This presentation highlights the emerging convergence of simulation, design data, and AI, and presents a compelling case for how engineering teams can begin implementing these capabilities today.
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