Ansys Workbench is a workflow analysis platform, combining the strength of our core simulation tools with the tools necessary to manage your projects. To build an analysis, you add building blocks called systems to the main project workspace. These systems make up a flowchart-like diagram that represent the data flow through your project. Each system is a block of one or more components called cells, which represent the sequential steps necessary for the specific type of analysis. Once added, you can link them together to share or transfer data between systems.

From the cells, you can work with various Ansys applications and analysis tasks; some of these open in tabs within the Workbench environment, while others open independently in their own windows.

Ansys applications enable you to define analysis characteristics such as geometry dimensions, material properties, and boundary conditions as parameters. You can manage parameters at the project-level in the Workbench environment. To perform your analysis, work through the cells of each system in order—typically from top to bottom—defining inputs, specifying project parameters, running your simulation, and investigating the results.

Workbench enables you to easily investigate design alternatives. You can modify any part of an analysis or vary one or more parameters, and then automatically update the project to see the effect of the change on the simulation result.