Case Study: Astec Industries achieves rapid design iterations and faster time-to-market with ANSYS ICEM CFD and FLUENT

Astec Industries - Customer Case Study

Astec Industries, a U.S. market leader in hot‑mix asphalt plants, faced the challenge of working from complex, imperfect CAD assemblies intended for manufacturing while needing rapid, parametric CFD studies under tight timelines and with large scale differences across models. To address this, Astec used ANSYS tools—primarily ANSYS ICEM CFD for meshing and FLUENT for CFD—to link CAD and analysis and accelerate design iterations.

ANSYS provided a solution using ANSYS ICEM CFD Tetra’s direct CAD interface, powerful geometry clean‑up tools, and curvature/proximity‑based auto‑refinement with interactive controls, which streamlined generation of parametric studies and reduced turnaround time. As a result, ANSYS enabled Astec Industries to get CFD results more quickly, maximize the benefits of their analysis tools, and bring better products to market faster.

Astec Industries

Andrew Hobbs

Chief CFD/DIEM Engineer