TLDR: Sumitomo Riko is integrating Ansys SimAI, an AI-powered simulation technology, to drastically improve its automotive component design and manufacturing. This adoption is set to accelerate simulation cycles by over tenfold, enabling high-fidelity performance predictions in under five minutes and significantly enhancing design precision and product lifecycle management.
Sumitomo Riko, a global leader in high-performance rubber automotive components, is embarking on a transformative journey in its design and manufacturing processes by integrating Ansys SimAI technology. This strategic move, announced on October 9, 2025, aims to revolutionize the development of critical automotive parts, promising an acceleration of simulation cycles by more than tenfold compared to conventional methods.
Ansys SimAI, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence platform from Synopsys, Inc., is designed to rapidly analyze vast amounts of new and existing simulation data. From this data, it generates high-fidelity AI models capable of predicting product performance with remarkable speed and accuracy. Sumitomo Riko plans to deploy SimAI across various computationally intensive tasks, including anti-vibration design and exploration, advanced battery cooling solutions, intricate magnetic field analysis, and complex mixing heat transfer analysis.
The core benefit of this integration lies in its ability to streamline the entire design-to-manufacturing workflow. By leveraging SimAI, Sumitomo Riko can generate accurate performance predictions for new designs in less than five minutes, a process that traditionally required over an hour. This substantial time saving per design iteration is achieved by training AI models on previously generated data for products like vibration isolators and hoses, eliminating the need for time-consuming geometric parameterization. The accuracy of these AI-driven predictions is comparable to that of high-fidelity simulations, ensuring no compromise on quality.
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This initiative is expected to create a more comprehensive and efficient product lifecycle management (PLM) process, allowing for quicker iteration, improved design precision, and ultimately, faster time-to-market for Sumitomo Riko’s innovative automotive components.
