Industry-Leading Simulation and Optimization for Additive Manufacturing
Accelerate design, manufacturing, and qualification of even the largest and most complex production components, by eliminating costly trial-and-error builds
We are the technical authority in AM and welding simulation, led by the pioneers of the field. Our team is an elite assembly of engineers from the world’s premier universities and global industrial leaders.
Our software is critical for enabling effective manufacturing and design across a variety of AM industry segments, including Aerospace, Defense, New Space, Energy, and Automotive. We have a network of partners and resellers that spans the globe.
A stable presence in the industry; our company is run on the licensing revenue of our products. We do not accept (let alone depend on) outside funding, making us accountable not to investors, but to our end-users.
PanOptimization headquarters is in State College, PA, show in black. Our offices are shown in orange, and resellers in blue.
PanX is a FEA platform that allows users to predict and improve build outcomes virtually – eliminating failed builds that result from experimental trial and error.
Multi-Grid modeling represents a paradigm shift for the industry and makes traditional simulation techniques obsolete. PanX is fast becoming the industry standard for thermomechanical modeling of AM.
Multi-Grid modeling represents a paradigm shift for the industry and makes traditional simulation techniques obsolete. PanX is fast becoming the industry standard for thermomechanical modeling of AM.
PanX LPBF
PanX LPBF is the only simulation tool on the market capable of accurately scaling to the size and complexity of modern LPBF parts.
Users can evaluate designs, compensate for distortion, predict and mitigate cracking, optimize dwell times to control heating, and control machine parameters for optimal melt quality and material properties.
Users can evaluate designs, compensate for distortion, predict and mitigate cracking, optimize dwell times to control heating, and control machine parameters for optimal melt quality and material properties.
PanX DED
PanX DED is the only simulation tool on the market capable of simulating part-scale DED parts.
Users can evaluate designs, fixturing, and toolpath strategies, compensate for distortion, predict and mitigate cracking, and optimize toolpath timing to achieve target interpass temperatures.
Users can evaluate designs, fixturing, and toolpath strategies, compensate for distortion, predict and mitigate cracking, and optimize toolpath timing to achieve target interpass temperatures.
Learn why the AM industry relies on PanX
Impact your bottom-line
As AM continues to shift from research/prototyping to production applications the cost of a build failure becomes unacceptable, as large production parts routinely cost over $100k to print.
PanX is an enabling technology that allows users to simulate and optimize the build process virtually, eliminating costly trial and error iterations and accelerating the time to reach a successful print.
“When you are printing a part that costs $100k to Print and finish, you want to make sure that it succeeds”
– Daniel Driscol , Velo3D
PanX is an enabling technology that allows users to simulate and optimize the build process virtually, eliminating costly trial and error iterations and accelerating the time to reach a successful print.
“When you are printing a part that costs $100k to Print and finish, you want to make sure that it succeeds”
– Daniel Driscol , Velo3D
The only game in town for large and complex parts
PanX is architected specifically to accurately scale to large and complex production parts. It is the only solver on the market capable of doing so.
The AMCM Aerospike (right) requires over 26M nodes and 50M elements to mesh, making it ~10x too large to mesh (let alone solve) using traditional simulation approaches. This thermomechanical model in PanX completes in just 3.5 hours on an engineering desktop.
“To push the boundaries of additive manufacturing, we’ve partnered with PanOptimization, whose cutting-edge simulation software PanX allows us to model the entire AM process with exceptional resolution and performance- even for very large components.”
– AMCM GmbH
The AMCM Aerospike (right) requires over 26M nodes and 50M elements to mesh, making it ~10x too large to mesh (let alone solve) using traditional simulation approaches. This thermomechanical model in PanX completes in just 3.5 hours on an engineering desktop.
“To push the boundaries of additive manufacturing, we’ve partnered with PanOptimization, whose cutting-edge simulation software PanX allows us to model the entire AM process with exceptional resolution and performance- even for very large components.”
– AMCM GmbH
Enable and accelerate Qualification
PanX’s high fidelity thermal simulation and optimization capabilities allow users to go beyond distortion prediction, enabling and accelerating the part qualification process.
Dwell time optimization computes the minimum cooling time required to meet acceptable interlayer temperatures for deposition, controlling the thermal response of the build, and allowing for the 1200mm tall AMCM component (right) to be printed with minimal surface oxidation and powder sticking in the internal channels. The PanX thermal simulation and optimization takes 1 hour on an engineering desktop workstation.
Dwell time optimization computes the minimum cooling time required to meet acceptable interlayer temperatures for deposition, controlling the thermal response of the build, and allowing for the 1200mm tall AMCM component (right) to be printed with minimal surface oxidation and powder sticking in the internal channels. The PanX thermal simulation and optimization takes 1 hour on an engineering desktop workstation.
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