# Ansys Sherlock Reviews **Vendor:** Ansys, Inc. **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 35 ## About Ansys Sherlock Ansys Sherlock is the only reliability physics-based electronics design tool that provides fast and accurate life predictions of electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early stage design. Using reliability physics, Sherlock reduces expensive build-and-test iterations by virtually running thermal cycling, power-temperature cycling, vibration, shock, bending, thermal derating, accelerated life, natural frequency, CAF and more so you can adjust designs in near real-time and achieve qualification in one round. With Sherlock you will: • Predict product failure early in the design process • Mitigate thermal, mechanical and manufacturing risks • Avoid re-design and re-test • Reduce warranty returns in the field by calculating time to failure • Translate ECAD to FEA in minutes • Easily facilitate design file transfer with a locked IP model Unlike any other tool on the market, Sherlock uses files created by your design team to build 3D models of electronic assemblies for trace modeling, post-processing of finite element analysis (FEA) and reliability predictions. This early insight translates to almost immediate identification of components with potential failure risks and gives you the ability to quickly adjust and retest designs. Sherlock capabilities include: • Solder fatigue analysis • Thermal-mechanical analysis • Shock and vibration analysis • Plated through hole (PTH) fatigue • Conductive anodic filament (CAF) • Analysis PCB/BGA • Substrate stackup design for manufacturability (DfM) • Conformal coating/potting • CAE interface • Thermal derating • Trace modeling • MTBF, empirical handbook MTBF, reliability physics • Ceramic capacitor time to failure • Electrolytic capacitor time to failure • Integrated circuit wearout • Heatsink editor • DFMEA Libraries – Sherlock's over 500,000 parts library provides embedded databases easily expanded by users • Parts Library • Packages Library • Materials Library • Laminates Library • Solders Library • Glass Style Library https://www.ansys.com/products/structures/ansys-sherlock ## Ansys Sherlock Reviews ### 1. Simulation tool for Hardware Designers to simulate real world condition and failure analysis for PCB **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mangesh D. | Senior Hardware Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Sherlock is life saving tool for Hardware Designers like me to simulate the mechanical aspects of PCB and components assembly. It has many features which I like most are Components level DFMEA(Design Failure Mode Analysis), Mechanical stress Simulation like shock and vibration, Thermal defeating. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** I will not say it as limitation, but it has limited components library and to add new component we need to request to Sherlock support. If the design is big then it takes time for simulation, but ofcourse it is expected. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Sherlock for my hardware PCB stress and vibration analysis. I also used conformal coting analysis. DFMEA for listed BOM. BOM update based on the Thermal derating. ### 2. ANSYS Sherlock great software for Solder Joint Reliability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony A. | Principal Staff Reliabilty Physics Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Ease of use. Ability to quickly import ECAD files. Only software I know that does Solder Joint Reliability Predictions. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Would like additional functionality - i.e. improved mesh, orthotropic material input for components. However, believe it is on ANSYS near-term roadmap to incorporate & improve. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** Try it out and evaluate. will save your organization time & money. simulation can prevent & predict problems in Test & Field. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solder Joint Reliability (SJR); Low Cycle & High Cycle Fatigue; Benefits: Multiple iterations performed quickly Helps to optimize component placement & effects Virtually create test-to-field correlation Simulation, when done correctly, can minimize validation testing ### 3. Very interactive interface and useful for Engineering applications in Oil and Gas industry. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vaibhav S. | Engineer-Mechanical, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** User Interface is very well structured and easy to use. It can execute complex simulations with comfort and quality of result is very good. It is one of the best software's that I have came across. It offers a full development in computer aided engineering. It is user friendly and I feel confident while analysing my complex problem simulations. The spectrum of Colors offered is very distinctive and unique. It makes the work more fun and stress free.It adds to better understanding of engineering aspects and reduce the errors. When I create a modelling simulation, I need not to go to and fro to make sure things are correct, it takes care of all the required things and all parts, assemblies and models are imported easily. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Simulation capability can be further improved by including wide range of materials. It needs to have all the required material based on industry be it austenitic steels or any other material related to different industry. It can further develop tutorials for a new user so that it can reach to maximum mechanical design engineers and become a part of their daily chores. Also, it should reach various other business by developing its own capabilities in a way that it suits almost all of them! Also the focus should be on making it available to university graduates so that they can benefit from it and learn the engineering aspects. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it to solve problems related to deformation due to various stresses. Benefit is that it matches with the calculation and the result is very approximate to the calculated values. This helps to reduce the workflow time in checking of calculations. This helps in solving quality issues and reducing lead time due to workflows. It is further adding value to my daily work and makes me happy to use it. ### 4. Review on Ansys Sherlock **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Chandrakant S. | Associate Professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** THis is very good software, it is easy to use as well as provide easy of work. Ansys Sherlock automated design analysis provides fast and accurate life predictions for electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early design stages. Sherlock bypasses the ‘test-fail-fix-repeat’ cycle by empowering designers to accurately model silicon–metal layers, semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and assemblies to predict failure risks due to thermal, mechanical and manufacturing stressors--all before prototype. Ansys Sherlock automated design analysis provides fast and accurate life predictions for electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early design stages. Sherlock bypasses the ‘test-fail-fix-repeat’ cycle by empowering designers to accurately model silicon–metal layers, semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and assemblies to predict failure risks due to thermal, mechanical and manufacturing stressors--all before prototype. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** for bigger problems one need to have support for servers from ansys. Ansys Sherlock automated design analysis provides fast and accurate life predictions for electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early design stages. Sherlock bypasses the ‘test-fail-fix-repeat’ cycle by empowering designers to accurately model silicon–metal layers, semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and assemblies to predict failure risks due to thermal, mechanical and manufacturing stressors--all before prototype. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** good software **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** heat and fluid flow raleted. Ansys Sherlock automated design analysis provides fast and accurate life predictions for electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early design stages. Sherlock bypasses the ‘test-fail-fix-repeat’ cycle by empowering designers to accurately model silicon–metal layers, semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and assemblies to predict failure risks due to thermal, mechanical and manufacturing stressors--all before prototype. ### 5. Automated design Analysis Software: Fast, Accurate and Reliable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subhan S. | Security Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Ansys Sherlock automated design analysis software is the only Reliability Physics/Physics of Failure (PoF)-based electronics design analysis software that provides: *Fast and accurate life predictions for electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early design stages. *A unique, powerful capability of Sherlock is its revolutionary ability to rapidly convert electronic CAD (ECAD) files into CFD and FEA models with accurate geometries and material properties. Through its powerful parsing engine **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Not encountered with any major issues as such. Going good. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** Budding engineers! Go ahead you love the accompany. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** *Not encountered with any major issues as such. Going good. Major Benefits: Fast preparation of ECAD data for the calculation Extensive libraries a great deal Physics based calculation of reliability Evidence adapted to the case of damage Can be used without special knowledge ### 6. One Way for Almost all of Ansys **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lokesh B. | Developer (Through HCL Technologies), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** User-friendly, reliability, Virtual running for faster processing, accuracy, comprehensiveness and many many more **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** It works well for stand alone, but integration ability has room for improvements. This is requiring higher configuration system which is understandable. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** If you are Novice user or a experienced user who wants accurate result with higher processing capabilities for varied kind of problems Ansys Sherlock is one stop solutions **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vibrations Analysis, Shock resistance, heat sink abilities and few like that to improve the products that we design. And major products are digital twining for predicting life of various components. For almost all our problems Ansys Sherlock is useful. ### 7. Prediction of the Reliable Electronics **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anurag Singh B. | PLM Teamcenter administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Ansys Sherlock provides the foolproof method to accurately predicts the failure which saves lots of downtimes and helps to save money on electronics hardware such as component, board, other appliances from breakdown. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** The downside which I feel for Ansys Sherlock is the integration of this Software with other PLM software. As CAD is moving at lightning pace towards PLM, so we need integration with Simens Teamcenter, Oneplm, Enovia, and Windchill like software. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** I haven't used much of this software but our main requirement for building and calculating the life of PCB board for our water controller. ### 8. Ansys Sherlock is quite simply the best tool for reliability assessment of power converters! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Ansys Sherlock allows comprehensive reliability assessment of power converters considering mechanical, thermal, and electrical failure modes due to effetcs like power cycling, humidity, temperature, shocks and vibrations etc.. The tool enables easy interfacing with standard PCB software and thus going from PCB to reliability assessment to identify some key concerns takes almost no time. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Adding some more help and tutorial section to navigate the interface better and use all of the features would be of great help for first-time users. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** Great tool for reliability assessment of power converters. Highly recommended! **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have done a preliminary analysis of reliability on a solar microinverter PCB, which need to be manufactured with fairly good estimate of lifetime, to be sure they can survive the 25 years lifetime of PV. The analysis from Ansys sherlock helped reveal excessive mechanical stresses on connectors, solder joint fatigue, which were corrected to make the design more robust. ### 9. My review on Ansys Sherlock software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evyatar C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** # The best feature that i like in Sherlock that it can easly model a detailed CCA with all of its mechanical properties that came from Xpedition (or Mentor) for FEA uses. # The software is specialized with assessing the reliability of your CCA and present the most weakest points in your electronic card. # The ability to change something in the CCA like moving/adding or removing some parts, adding optional mount points or changing the properties of the stuckup and see how it affects on the reliability. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** The model meshing abilities for FEA is not very well developed **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** If you are working in a department with electronic cards development and want to mechanically optimize your design, this software is for you. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mostly run a mechanical reliability analysis for CCA before PDR/CDR review and before the manufacturing process. The common modules that i use are Random vibration, Shock and Solder Fatigue analysis. ### 10. Sherlock a tool for electronic packaging design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Ease of use, very unique interface, great database of electronic components to find properties **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Help is not intetactive to guide you through the process **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** If u are in electronic packaging industry i highly recommend **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reliabilty calculations for elrctronics ### 11. Reliable tool for quick FEA **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunil A. | Technical Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Simple and Quick, have been user of Ansys **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Meshing is little critical, which can be automated for dummies **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** Ansys, considering great history in the area of simulation... **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Frankly speaking I have used Ansys but not Sherlock, however I anticipate it to perform better and as expected ### 12. Review for Ansys Sherlock **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ASHUTOSH U. | Assistant Manager Project Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Detailed analysis, reliability analysis of electronic items, validation via different models and variable **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Detailed drawing modification if required to be done **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** Must use to know the reliability fact or electronic assembly. It will definitely help you **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reliability of electronic assembly, real usuage life cycle ### 13. It is most relevant and easy to work .Anyone can use as per their use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajay k. | Supervisor engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** The accuracy and time saving for anyone. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** The only thing dislike that we required high processor and device that can render quickly as compared to low end. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easy to understand to employee they can do all multitasking things. In a easy way. ### 14. Amazing Ansys learning experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MD H. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Most helpful thing is the teaching way, experienced faculty give amazing concepts and provide easy way to learn the module of Ansys. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** In my point, I was not feel any such activity so that I could tell about dislike. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** Do join **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Static structural analysis. ### 15. G2 Ansys Sherlock **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raheem M. | Faculty of Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Its Features are awesome and updated in all aspects. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Its meshing time still needs to be improved **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many Simulation related problems and proposed boundary conditions are imposed and solved to get accuracy with the experimental work. ### 16. Ansys Sherlock flexible tool to optimize precision parts **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** venkata 3. | Assistant Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** User interface excellent and graphics are good **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** File capacity is very high and consuming a lot of time while opening, integration in each time opening **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Chipboard and physical design validation, drone board analysis ### 17. Electronics Reliability Simulation made easy with ANSYS Sherlock **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** The best part is electronic component library which gets auto-assigned to your model **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Rather than putting it as a separate stand-alone solver, this could be made more useful if used as part of the thermal, stress or electromagnetic solvers **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Right from the reliability issues at board level to the full assembly level and also for Li ion battery pack reliability and shoulder fatigue ### 18. Best product from Ansys for electronics reliability. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** streamlined and User-friendly user interface. basic & additional info about each button is easily understood simply mouse hovering on the button. that's damn helpful. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** limited tutorials and examples on sherlock make it difficult for beginners. lack of strong community and resources really stopping this product from being the best one. apart from that all good. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ansys Sherlock helps to identify critical defects in electronic designs earlier which is brings foolproof products. its results can help to gain confidence and guarantee in product for design. ### 19. Usefull, powerfull, good tool in in the right hands **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Automatization of part modelling, all simulation bundled together **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Validation data is missing for most of the predictive models **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** Test your assumptions **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** I performed virtual validation ### 20. No more shooting in the dark to predict PCB reliability! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** - Use of Physics of Failure models that quickly provide accurate and actionable PCBA reliability prediction results. - Customization options to capture true physical PCBA properties in simulation. - Capability to model based on actual and potential operational and environmental conditions. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** - Would like the Sherlock library to greatly increase the number of parts available. - Training videos and support are very handy but it would be nice to have like a 3-5 day structured course available. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ansys Sherlock enabled best possible accurate reliability predictions that lead to more accurate Cost-of-Reliability modeling for timeframes beyond the existing field data. ### 21. Easy-to-use and efficient tool to assess the solder joint durability of electronic packages **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Sherlock is a user-friendly software that allows you to perform thermomechanical solder joint durability assessment with efficiency. The import of design files such as Gerber or ODB++ is indeed time saving and is useful to estimate the material properties of PCB for instance. The fact that it is possible to import a model from Sherlock to Ansys Workbench is another great feature to perform accurate simulations. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** It is not possible to perform durability calculations neither at the PCBA leval nor the product level (it indeed does not account for the number of identical packages on the board etc.). Moreover, the assessment of solder joint durability under vibration loading is not accurate enough to consider quantitative results. It is however a good tool to make comparisoons between different designs. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thermomechanical durability of solder joints ### 22. Ansys is very helpful and user friendly for beginners and very close to practical. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** User friendly and very easy to understand with high predictability **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Not 100% accurate and some work to be done on high reliability. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** Pl try it and make your own decision **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thermal analysis and all PCB board problems can be resolved. ### 23. Sherlock is a great tool to simulate the life of your electronic cards **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** reinaldo g. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Sherlock is an easy to use software package **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** need to verify IC's package information. sometimes a package is not defined and you need to adapt. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** If you want to assess the reliability of your board even before you get prototypes, I would recommend using Sherlock **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** it simulates the life of the solder joints in an electronic card ### 24. It is very good for fluid flow problem simulation. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** It morehelpfull for simulation of any kind of fluid flow problem. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Earlier creation of geometry was little bit difference. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** It has been recomended **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fluid flow problem. Benefits is it gives direct numerical results. ### 25. Easy to understand **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Results Accuracy,Time consuming, easy to handle. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Adding some more help and tutorial section to navigate the interface better and use all of the features would be of great help for first-time users. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** NA **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** NA ### 26. It's good software and user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** It provides fast and accurate Life prediction for electronic hardware **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Flexibility wise if I say then it is smwhat I feel less flexible **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modelling of printed circuit board.. and it's good for this application ### 27. First time user review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Most useful for thermal analysis preparation **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** The not so user friendly GUI of the software **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** User friendly tool. Easy to use. Must at least give a try. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting deck ready for thermal analysis ### 28. Every learning or analysis requires a practival applications which sherlock gives best **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Analysis of aircrafts multi-phase flow thermal flow analysis **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** none i don't dislike it good software applicable **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** yes will recommend it **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** solving long time equations ### 29. An excellent experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Simulation capabilities & it's excellent solver used in the analysis **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Some case studies comparing with LS Dyna might help **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shock response analysis of airframe structure ### 30. Thermal simulation using ANSYS sherlock **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Excellent tool for semiconductor products **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Simulation run time need to improve. integrating to softwares **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** PCB design ### 31. feedback **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** powerful easy pre and post-processing software **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** tool expensive integration to workbench. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** not available **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** solder joint issues ### 32. Highly detailed circuit card analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Automatic board stiffness calculations and component libraries. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Difficult to figure out how built-in failure criteria correlates to test failures. Automatic PCB thermal conductivity calculation would be nice, similar to modulus calculation. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** Natural freq of PCB and random vibe fatigue. ### 33. A Sherlock user of 6 years **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jon Fea P. | Reliability, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** Sherlock has the most updated reliability physic concept built-in, provide accurate results at the early phase of the design. It even can help the engineer to do reliability growth before the first design prototype release. Moreover, the tool developers have a strong background in reliability physic research and study. The most thing I like is the DfR Solutions invest more resources in improving the Sherlock and try to make it easy to use. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** In the earlier version, the software has many bugs. The later version after 5.0 seems to be more reliable, but still has minor bugs observed from one version to another. Besides, the user needs to have well-planning in doing data entry to Sherlock; any inaccurate data entry will cause the simulated results confusing. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Sherlock:** Sherlock can help you fill up the gap that was not covered by the traditional reliability prediction and lab testing. **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** A more accurate reliability prediction results that were helping company finance to allocate the right amount of money for product warranty reserve. ### 34. DfR Sherlock Software for Solder Joint Reliability Analysis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** ODB import feature makes it very easy to create initial model with most of the necessary information. Parts library makes it easy to apply previously collected data. Thermal Cycling analysis runs super fast. The strain based component of damage predicted in the Random Vibration analysis solver is a huge value-add. We currently have no other means to assess such damage and have been able to predict failure modes that would (or had) otherwise been missed. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** Adding detail can be difficult. Hard to model mechanical parts/interface with external FEA. Parts List management is partially automated but doesn't always work if there are user input values overwriting library values. Board outline editor is painful. Natural Frequency analysis runs every time Random Vibration runs (i.e. can't just use saved results if applicable) adding unnecessary computation time . **What problems is Ansys Sherlock solving and how is that benefiting you?** We currently use Sherlock to avoid costly and lengthy thermal cycling testing by using analysis to demonstrate compliance. We also use it as a design tool for developing products to meet high shock and vibration environments. We've had very good agreement with test data to date. ### 35. It's a useful tool to perform PCB Reliability Assessments in an early design stage. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriel S. | Test System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Sherlock?** The mechanical simulations like Natural Frequency and Strain Gauge analysis are being tested using physical samples, getting a good correlation. **What do you dislike about Ansys Sherlock?** The CAF need post-analysis to determine the real risks. 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