Implementation and use of ANSYS Workbench templates have resulted in substantial benefits in design development productivity and competitive advantage for TRW Automotive. It represents the next evolutionary step for CAE in the engineering Process.

I intensively use the Workbench environment and my overall opinion about it is definitively positive! ANSYS Workbench changed my every day way of working: The mesher. It allows me to mesh an engine crankcase in a couple of hours, while it would have taken me about three weeks to do the same with a classic mesher. So now I let Workbench do its job, analyze the model and refine the mesh. I believe this is a much quicker procedure than ruining my days fixing a few thousand of surfaces coming from CAD. The contact builder. You select the contact areas and the Workbench does all the remaining job. But the best feature is the graphical checking, so you'll be sure not to have missed any. The CAD associativity. The geometry treatment is entirely done inside the CAD package (unless you have DesignModeler). Once you've modified the geometry, you update your Workbench model without losing all your previous work. ANSYS still lies behind. You can insert sets of generic or APDL commands inside your Workbench model, to specify advanced features you want your model to have.