Case Study: GEA Ecoflex India Pvt. Ltd. achieves 14% material savings and cuts design time from two weeks to two days with ANSYS

Simulation-driven product development speeds design of heat exchangers from two weeks to two days

GEA Ecoflex India Pvt. Ltd., a specialist in plate heat exchanger technology within the GEA Group, faced the challenge of delivering innovative, standards-compliant heat exchangers with fast turnaround, fewer prototypes and guaranteed safety, structural integrity and performance to meet customer and international requirements. To meet tight development schedules and technical specifications, the company needed a simulation-driven approach that could accelerate design while ensuring compliance and reliability.

ANSYS provided a multiphysics simulation solution using ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Fluent to model structural, thermal and seismic load cases and optimize plate heat exchanger designs. Using ANSYS, GEA Ecoflex reduced design and development time by 86% (from two weeks to two days), cut material use by 14%, lowered prototyping needs and validated performance to accelerate market introduction and reduce manufacturing costs.