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“The use of HEEDS...has significantly increased dummy model accuracy, as well as the efficiency of our development process. Achieving our goals without HEEDS technology would prove to be almost impossible.” 
— John Cooper, Vice President of Virtual Products, Denton ATD

"HEEDS Professional has changed everything for our research team! It has enabled us to navigate toward superior-performing...skin designs for our tactile sensors."  
— Dr. Lorenzo M. Smith, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University


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HEEDS Professional

Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization Software

HEEDS® Professional is a powerful software package that automates the design optimization process. Using revolutionary search strategies, HEEDS eliminates the restrictions of numerical search methods, so you can uncover new design concepts that will improve your products and significantly reduce development costs.

HEEDS intelligently conducts a broad, efficient search for optimized designs in a fraction of the time it would take you to perform even a handful of manual design iterations. Using HEEDS, you can discover optimal designs, faster, even if you have very little design optimization experience.

Multidisciplinary
HEEDS Professional is truly a multidisciplinary optimization tool. Whether the problem is structural (linear or nonlinear, static or dynamic, bulk materials or composites), fluid, thermal, or acoustic in nature, involves NVH and dynamics, or any combination of these, HEEDS Professional can help you find the optimal solution.

Intuitive to Use
Although the technology that drives HEEDS is complex, the software is user-friendly. HEEDS' interface features a unique tabbed layout that leads you clearly through the six-step process of project setup and execution. You do not need to be an optimization ex­pert to use HEEDS.
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Easily Integrated with CAE Packages
HEEDS Professional is compatible with all of the popular CAE applications to automate and expedite design optimization. It can easily work with multiple software tools to handle pre- and post-processing, simulation, and multidisciplinary optimization. HEEDS features direct interfaces for Abaqus, LS-DYNA, NX and Excel. Additionally, it offers a powerful generic interface that allows it to link to virtually any commercial or proprietary CAE tool. ►Learn more

Exclusive Search Technology
HEEDS' default search method, SHERPA, employs multiple search strategies simultaneously and dynamically adapts to the problem as it learns about the design space. The unique advantages of SHERPA include:
  • Speed — SHERPA requires fewer evaluations than other methods and often finds a solution the first time. This efficiency can save you days or even weeks of CPU time during routine optimization studies.
  • Robustness — SHERPA identifies better-quality solutions, for broad classes of problems, and performs global and local optimization at the same time.
  • Ease of use — With SHERPA, there are no tuning parameters. Simply specify the number of evaluations you want it to conduct.
Extensive Feature Set

Whether you need to improve the design of a simple engineered system or solve multidisciplinary problems, HEEDS Professional is flexible and powerful enough to identify the values, or attributes, that will satisfy your design criteria.

Design Optimization
  • SHERPA
  • Multi-objective SHERPA
  • Genetic algorithm (GA)
  • Quadratic programming
  • Simulated annealing
  • Response surface
  • Multi-start local search
 		Design of Experiments (DOE)
  • Full-factorial and fractional factorial designs
  • Taguchi robust design arrays
  • Taguchi orthogonal arrays
  • Plackett-Burman designs
  • Latin hypercube designs
  • Central composite designs
  • D-optimal designs
Process Automation
  • Direct portals to common CAE tools for data extraction
  • Automated execution of multiple simulation and analysis tools within a design evaluation process
  • Integration and sharing of data among separate simulations
  • Support for parallel processing on networks, clusters and multiprocessors
 Robustness and Reliability
  • Taguchi robust design arrays
  • Structured sampling
  • Random (Monte Carlo) sampling