LEAP Australia Blog

Choosing hardware for LS-DYNA: what actually matters

Buying a new workstation for Ansys LS-DYNA is not the same as buying one for general FEA or CFD. The LS-DYNA solver puts unusual demands on a machine, and the parts that matter most depend on the type of analysis you run. This means that a high price tag or large core count on a spec sheet won’t necessarily guarantee you faster results – so you need to carefully consider where it is worth spending your hard-earned money. This guide covers the three things that LEAP’s Explicit Dynamics team advises you to look at first.

MBSE Workflows with Ansys

Engineers spend a surprising amount of time keeping information consistent. When a requirement changes, then someone has to work out which calculations, drawings and test plans are affected. It is engineering work, but it’s manual, easy to get wrong, and hard to trace afterwards. Model Based Systems Engineering, or MBSE, is a way of avoiding that. Rather than describing a product across a set of separate documents, MBSE captures it in one connected model.

LEAP Tech Day – Intelligent Product Lifecycle: Wrap Up & Product Update Resources

During August and September 2026, the LEAP PTC team travelled across Australia and New Zealand to deliver the LEAP Tech Day seminar series on PTC’s Intelligent Product Lifecycle. In this article we recap the events and provide access to online resources to learn more about important updates to the PTC product suite.

Innovation through Design and Advanced Manufacturing in the development of Multotec’s ACE & ERX Hammerless System – A Queensland Case Study

In this guest blog, Matthew Ferguson, Business Development Manager – Quarries and Aggregates Australasia, describes Multotec’s use of digital engineering practices in the design of precision-engineered components that are critical to the ACE & ERX platform’s hammerless mechanism, delivering lower lifecycle costs through reductions in change-out times and reduced wear on critical parts.

Smarter Engineering Calculations: Reducing Errors, Rework & Time with Mathcad 12

Engineers rely heavily on calculations in their daily work, yet a significant amount of their time is spent on checking, reworking, and explaining these calculations rather than solving problems. This article explains how Mathcad Prime 12 addresses these challenges, transforming calculations into clear, interactive engineering documentation.

PTC’s AI Strategy – Advise, Assist and Automate

The final instalment of our Intelligent Product Lifecycle web series examines PTC’s AI strategy, from existing AI capabilities within PTC’s software suite to upcoming functionality planned for future releases and the overarching principles that guide PTC’s AI roadmap.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Codebeamer and Pure Variants

In this fifth instalment of our web series we explain the benefits of empowering your product development teams with Codebeamer and Pure Variants, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions in the Intelligent Product Lifecycle.

Powering Future Cost Savings and Sustainability in Mining: EPCA’s Retrofitting Journey

Mining has always demanded ingenuity, but the pressures of the past few years have sharpened that need considerably. For mine operators, the fastest way to capture both benefits isn’t always buying a brand-new fleet. Often, it’s retrofitting the diesel haul trucks they already own. In this guest blog, EPCA walks us through how their simulation-led retrofit approach compresses development timelines, preserves existing asset value, and delivers reliable, zero-emission haulage, even in the face of environmental and geopolitical headwinds.

Q&A with Esper Satellites: Hyperspectral Imagery for Earth Observation

Esper Satellite Imagery develops hyperspectral imaging sensors for low Earth orbit, delivering affordable, wide-spectrum data for agriculture, mining, and environmental monitoring. Their mission is to deploy 18+ sensors by 2028, providing global, high-frequency insights. LEAP sat down with Shoaib Iqbal, Co-founder and CEO of Esper Satellite Imagery to learn how Ansys simulation tools are helping Esper to achieve their goals.

Enterprise Data Access with Windchill

The final instalment of our Intelligent Product Lifecycle webinar series explains and demonstrates how the solid product data foundation enabled through PLM can be harnessed by the wider enterprise to improve efficiency, quality and compliance.