Eliminate the Post-Processing Bottleneck.
Your simulation finished hours ago. The insight is still buried in spreadsheets. ThermaPost® turns raw thermal output into decision-ready intelligence — instantly.
The Real Bottleneck: Speed to Insight
Thermal engineers run plenty of simulations to inform decisions about heater sizing, worst cases, radiator areas, and interface temperatures. But the simulation itself is just a means to an end. What actually matters is the insight: the moment a reviewer can look at a margin table and say, “the design is compliant” — or flag the issues.
That gap between “solver complete” and “decision made” is what we call speed to insight, and for most thermal teams it is shockingly slow. Post-processing, visualisation, margin tabulation, comparison across cases, and report generation can take very long. Post-processing has remained a stubbornly manual, human-bottlenecked process.
The Manual Workflow: Death by a Thousand Clicks
If you have ever post-processed a thermal model by hand, you understand the pain.
Your run finished. You start extracting temperatures and building your post-processing outputs. Now, the lead engineer asks you to check how the margins changed after the latest radiator re-sizing or asks you about a specific gradient in a part for all cases. So you might re-run the model, and re-extract everything you need, then re-format. Then comes the sensitivity analysis. How do margins shift if surface properties degrade by 10%? If that conductance changes? Each variation is another extraction and another round of manual comparison.
Automated Scripts: Better, but Not Enough
The natural response to this pain is automation. Write a VBA or Matlab script that parses your files, display plots and output Excel tables. Teams that invest in this do see payoff — for exactly that one model format, that one report layout, that one project.
But there are two fundamental limitations that scripting cannot overcome.
First, the setup cost is significant and the result is brittle. Building a robust post-processing pipeline can take weeks of engineering time. And the moment something changes — a different node naming convention, a new model topology, an additional sensitivity parameter — the script has to be updated and someone has to fix it. These scripts are tuned to a specific model setup, and adapting them to a new spacecraft or project needs often means starting from scratch.
Second, scripts are limited and do not reason. A script can compute a margin, but it cannot tell you that the margin on a particular unit is dangerously close to zero only in the combination of hot case and end-of-life optical properties. It cannot flag that a bracket temperature rose 8°C between two design iterations when it should have dropped. It cannot recommend that you re-check the interface conductance because the delta between model versions does not make physical sense.
Scripts automate extraction. They do not automate understanding. And understanding is the real value.
ThermaPost®: From Data to Decisions in Minutes
ThermaPost® reads thermal simulation outputs from ESATAN-TMS, Thermica, and additional formats such as Excel or CSV.
It transforms them into the deliverables your review board actually needs: robust plots that can be quickly edited, margin tables, comparison charts, sensitivity overviews, and report-ready visuals — all extracted, computed, and formatted automatically.
We replace the struggle of extraction with instant clarity. Instead of hours in Excel, you get a complete margin overview the moment the solver finishes. Instead of manually tracking which nodes changed between design iterations, you see the deltas highlighted automatically. Instead of rebuilding your report for every milestone, you generate it in seconds.
Overall, ThermaPost® can save each engineer up to one day a week — roughly a week a month, or more than 500 hours a year.
What ThermaPost® Does
Purpose-built for the thermal engineer's actual workflow, not a generic data tool adapted for space.
Direct Extraction
Pull temperatures, heat fluxes, and conductor data directly from ESATAN-TMS and Thermica output files, plus exported text, CSV, and Excel formats. No manual copy-paste, no intermediate spreadsheets. Bypass the file-handling chaos entirely.
Automated Margin Tracking
Automated margin computation across all tracked nodes and your custom groups, for all cases. Handles both ECSS-style and GEVS-style margin definitions. Instantly see which margins are positive, which are tight, and which just turned negative after your latest design change.
Sensitivity Comparison
Compare sensitivity runs without manual post-processing. See exactly how results shift when parameters are changed. Parameter sweeps visualised in seconds.
Report-Ready Visuals
Generate margin tables, temperature comparison charts, and design overview plots formatted for your needs. Configurable to match your programme-specific thermal report templates. Decision-quality deliverables without touching Excel or PowerPoint.
Model Versioning
Track model inputs and results across the full design lifecycle. Compare any two versions side by side and trace exactly what changed, when, and how it affected your margins. Full traceability from Phase A through flight.
Sovereign Security
Your thermal model data stays yours. Fully encrypted sessions with no third-party data sharing. Designed for the data sensitivity requirements of critical space programmes.
Why It Matters
Thermal teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Mission schedules compress while model complexity grows. Even as solver performance improves, the post-processing bottleneck remains. Manual workflows do not scale. Scripts help but are limited and do not reason. The gap between “results ready” and “decision made” is where project schedules stall.
When the work that once took hours or days is completed in minutes, two things happen.
Engineers reclaim meaningful time
Hours spent on extraction and formatting become minutes. Your thermal engineers focus on design decisions, trade-offs, and physics — the work that actually moves the mission forward.
Decision cycles accelerate
Margin reviews that used to wait for report assembly can happen the same day as the simulation. Faster iteration means problems are found earlier, when they are cheapest to fix.
That is faster speed to insight. And it fundamentally changes how thermal engineering teams work.
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