Best Simulation & CAE Software & Solutions in 2023

Fusion 360 is the first and only integrated cloud CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB product development solution for product designers, mechanical engineers, electronics engineers, and machinists. It allows you to connect your entire design to manufacture product development process to deliver high-quality products to market faster and positively impact your bottom line. It includes generative design, 2.5, 3, 4, & 5-axis machining, and advanced simulation and is available on PC and Mac.

aPriori, the leading Manufacturing Insights Platform, delivers strategic insights for manufacturers to continuously decide how to design a product and where to manufacture it to optimize cash flow, accelerate revenue growth and improve margin. This unique collaborative platform, combines Product Cost Management, Design for Manufacturing and Sustainability, and Supplier Collaboration capabilities. The platform includes more that 450 manufacturing process simulation and more than 80 regional economic models, to yield insights that accelerate time to market by 20% while achieving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and decreased CO2 footprint. aPriori Manufacturing Insights Platform connects Design Engineers, Cost Experts, Sourcing/Procurement teams, and Supply Chain to collaborate, review real time insights to improve products, and optimize cost, carbon footprint and manufacturability to stay aligned with Corporate priorities and KPIs. More than 300 manufacturing companies in the world have chosen the aPriori Product Design & Manufacture Optimization platform to develop the best sustainable product at the right price and delivered on time.

FlexSim is 3D simulation modeling software, transforming your existing data into accurate predictions. Our clients are engineers and decision makers who see the potential in a process that could be improved. Our approach goes way beyond spreadsheets. It combines powerful statistical analysis with 3D visualization, allowing you to test "what if" scenarios in a risk-free virtual environment. Our clients use it to make smarter decisions where it really counts-in the real world. In order to truly understand your production, logistical, or healthcare system, you need to account for the hundreds or thousands of complex, interrelated actions that occur each and every day. Add in the random behavior that always occurs in the real world, and you have a scenario that can't be accurately considered through traditional analysis methods. By building and evaluating a digital twin of your process, simulation provides EXACTLY this level of accuracy and results. Uncover the true cause of a production bottleneck. Find the right tweaks to power up your order picking speeds. If you can identify an area for improvement, simulation with FlexSim can help you solve the problem.

Lanner WITNESS is a discrete event simulation platform for modelling processes and experimentation.