The shape exploration system for data-driven engineering
CAESES® is a software platform that allows you to perform variation studies on your geometry in a flexible, reliable, and controlled way.
Model
Create highly flexible parametric models that capture design intent instead of static geometry. Generate thousands of design variants automatically while maintaining full control over constraints and dependencies.
Connect
Connect CAESES to your simulation tools to automatically evaluate generated design variants. Build robust workflows that eliminate manual handovers and enable large-scale design studies with minimal effort.
Optimize
Explore vast design spaces and identify high-performing solutions through automated optimization. Let intelligent algorithms guide engineering decisions based on your performance objectives and constraints.
Insight
Turn simulation and exploration results into actionable insights with powerful visualization and analysis tools. Understand trends, compare alternatives, and make confident data-driven design decisions.
Successfully applied across different fields
Medical
CAESES enables the rapid development and optimization of patient-specific and high-performance medical devices, reducing design time while improving functionality and outcomes.
Energy
CAESES accelerates the design and optimization of renewable energy systems, helping engineers maximize efficiency, power output, and reliability.
Industrial Machinery
CAESES enables rapid development and optimization of flow-critical components, improving performance while reducing engineering time and costs.
Thermal Management
CAESES helps engineers create and optimize cooling solutions that enhance heat dissipation, improve reliability, and support higher-performance electronics.
Maritime
CAESES accelerates the design and optimization of hydrodynamic components, enabling faster development cycles, improved performance, and reduced fuel consumption.
Turbomachinery
With CAESES, engineers can rapidly generate and optimize complex turbomachinery geometries to achieve higher efficiency and better overall performance.
Powertrain
CAESES streamlines the automated design exploration of engine components, helping unlock performance gains while reducing development effort.
Aerospace
CAESES empowers aerospace engineers to create and optimize advanced aerodynamic shapes, leading to improved efficiency, performance, and innovation.
Automotive
By automating geometry generation and design studies, CAESES helps automotive teams enhance aerodynamic efficiency, thermal management, and product development speed.
Explore what others create with CAESES
OSV design
Kongsberg Maritime uses CAESES for OSV design as a central hub, integrating hydrostatics, stability, seakeeping, DP, resistance, and cost in a multi-disciplinary workflow enabling automated optimization, improved operability, reduced CAPEX, and lower fuel consumption.
Turbocharger impeller design
Using CAESES, mtu Solutions implemented a fully automated, multi-objective optimization workflow for turbocharger design, integrating aerodynamics, structural, thermal, and mass analyses to deliver near-production solutions with over 50% reduced development time and engineering efficiency gains.
Trusted by 150+ organizations in over 30 countries around the world
What our customers say
“By using CAESES, we could massively bring down our turbine design cycle from several months to only a few weeks.”
Nicolas Lachenmaier
Engineer for Fluid Dynamics and Thermal Analysis
“If the hull is already optimized using CAESES, it cannot be improved any further.”
Cho Tae-Ik
Executive Vice President
“We launched a pilot project with FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS to evaluate CAESES in May, it helped us solve a time-critical task in July and it became a design tool by October.
By then, we had created flexible and robust parametric models for complex parts, enabling us to optimize in design spaces we had previously not been able to explore.”
Tilman auf dem Kampe
Head of Aerodynamics Technology Development Large Gas Turbine Engineering
“CAESES was a big help. It saved us a lot of time. Also, our hull looks very different from the hulls of our competitors. It was, amongst other factors, thanks to CAESES that we found this approach. I doubt, we would have found it just by empirical trial and error.”
Martin Fischer
Chief Designer, 37th America’s Cup campaign
“CAESES is a core component in the design department, and nowadays, it drives all new product developments to ensure the very best performance.”
David Bendl
Development Engineer
“We have been using CAESES as a geometry tool for optimization of ship hulls and appendages since 2008. The open parametric approach exactly meets our way of working. CAESES combines distinct mathematical CAD with modern handling and appearance. It is easy and intuitive to use, but does also provide full control for all who need it. With its inbuilt feature programming, it even allows us to quickly implement solutions for almost all kinds of additional ideas. CAESES proved to be the best available solution in the market for our services.”
Bardo Krebber
Naval Architect and Optimization Specialist
“I have successfully been using CAESES for many years now. It allows me to create my own customized toolbox with everything I need in the different stages of the pump design process.
The functionality of CAESES greatly accelerated and complemented our traditional design process. Finally, it lets us improve the quality of our various types of pumps.”
Toni Klemm
CFD Engineer
“Using CAESES enables us to perform CFD-driven shape optimizations in a disruptive new way. Due to the high flexibility of the created parametric models, we are developing new, highly efficient valve designs in a much shorter period of time.”
Marco Wissinger
Pre-Development Engineer
“In our experience, using CAESES for creating parametric models was MUCH faster and easier than with our traditional CAD tool – hours versus weeks! For complex geometries, the traditional CAD tool was not the optimum solution because when creating variants we experienced a lot of infeasible geometries, whereas in CAESES we had almost 100% success. At Sirehna, CAESES has become an indispensable tool for conducting comprehensive shape optimization studies in an automated CFD-driven design process.”
Pol Muller
Head of Thrusters
Kickstart your modelling setup with a sample model
Ship hulls
Fully-parametric models for container ships, tankers, or hard chined boats.
Propellers
Parametric propeller models including tip rake, highly skewed blades, or toroidal setups.
Our support team is here for you
CAESES gives you access to a dedicated engineering support team with deep expertise in parametric modeling, CFD workflows, and design optimization.
Whether you are building your first model or scaling advanced automation processes, our experts are there to help you move faster and achieve better results.