The Adams software marketed by MSC Software is one of several special-purpose programs used to simulate the dynamics of multibody systems.

One drawback of the Adams program is that all components are assumed to be rigid. In the Adams program, tools to model component flexibility exist only for geometrically simple structures. To account for the flexibility of a geometrically complex component, Adams relies on data transferred from finite-element programs. The Ansys-Adams Interface is a tool provided by Ansys, Inc. to transfer data from Mechanical APDL to the Adams program.