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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.

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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.

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Energy

CAESES accelerates the design and optimization of renewable energy systems, helping engineers maximize efficiency, power output, and reliability.

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Industrial Machinery

CAESES enables rapid development and optimization of flow-critical components, improving performance while reducing engineering time and costs.

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Thermal Management

CAESES helps engineers create and optimize cooling solutions that enhance heat dissipation, improve reliability, and support higher-performance electronics.

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Maritime

CAESES accelerates the design and optimization of hydrodynamic components, enabling faster development cycles, improved performance, and reduced fuel consumption.

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Turbomachinery

With CAESES, engineers can rapidly generate and optimize complex turbomachinery geometries to achieve higher efficiency and better overall performance.

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Powertrain

CAESES streamlines the automated design exploration of engine components, helping unlock performance gains while reducing development effort.

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Aerospace

CAESES empowers aerospace engineers to create and optimize advanced aerodynamic shapes, leading to improved efficiency, performance, and innovation.

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Automotive

By automating geometry generation and design studies, CAESES helps automotive teams enhance aerodynamic efficiency, thermal management, and product development speed.

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Explore what others create with CAESES

Offshore Platform
5% Lower CAPEX and OPEX
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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.

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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.

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Trusted by 150+ organizations in over 30 countries around the world

10.000 + Design variants
100 % Automation
10x Faster design exploration

What our customers say

Nico Lachenmaier

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

John Doe

If the hull is already opti­mized using CAESES, it cannot be improved any further.”

Cho Tae-Ik
Executive Vice President

Tilman auf dem Kampe

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

Martin Fischer

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

David Bendl

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

Bardo Krebber

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

Toni Klemm

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

Marco Wissinger

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

Pol Muller

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. 

Bulk Carrier Hull
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Propellers

Parametric propeller models including tip rake, highly skewed blades, or toroidal setups.

Tip Rake Propeller
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Impellers

Parametric impellers for turbines, compressors, pumps, or fans.

Turbine wheel
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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.

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