Eliminate the Post-Processing Bottleneck.
Thermal engineers spend at least 40% of their time on data extraction, formatting, and report assembly — not engineering. ThermaPost® gives that time back.
The Real Bottleneck: Speed to Insight
The gap between “solver complete” and “decision made” is where project schedules stall. Post-processing, margin tabulation, version comparison, and report generation remain stubbornly manual. Industry surveys show engineering teams lose a third of their working hours to manual data management. For spacecraft thermal teams handling dozens of model versions across multiple review milestones, the overhead is worse.
The Manual Workflow: Death by a Thousand Clicks
Your run finished. Now comes extraction, formatting, margin tabulation, comparison across cases — and then the lead engineer asks you to check how margins changed after the latest radiator re-sizing. So you re-extract, re-format, re-compare. Each sensitivity variation is another round. Our tool replaces that manual spreadsheet workflow.
Automated Scripts: Better, but Not Enough
The natural response is automation — VBA, MATLAB, Python scripts. Teams that invest in this see payoff for exactly that one model format, that one report layout, that one project type. But scripts are rigid and brittle: change project outputs, try extracting other insights, switch projects, pass over to other engineers in the team, and someone has to rewrite them or bring manual edits. Scripts automate extraction. They do not automate comparison, tracking, or reporting across model versions.
ThermaPost®: From Data to Decisions in Minutes
ThermaPost® reads thermal simulation outputs from ESATAN-TMS, Thermica — plus exported CSV and Excel from other software.
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.
From solver output to margin table in 60 seconds. From raw results to formatted PPTX in minutes, not days. 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 regenerate it with one click.
Every model version is tracked. Jump back to any previous iteration, diff it against the current design, and see exactly which nodes, margins, and cases moved — and by how much. No more hunting through archived folders or rebuilding old cases to answer “what changed since PDR?” ThermaPost® keeps the full history and makes the delta one click away.
That speed is increasingly a competitive edge. As programmes tighten and clients expect faster, more detailed deliverables, ThermaPost® lets your team move faster than competitors and arrive at reviews with deeper insights — without burning engineers on tooling maintenance instead of physics. It is how modern thermal teams differentiate: same talent, better tools, faster answers.
A single thermal engineer can recover at least 300–500 hours (2–3 months!) per year by automating result extraction, margin calculation, version comparison, and report generation.
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, Thermica output files — plus exported CSV, Excel, and a universal import schema on request. No manual copy-paste. No intermediate spreadsheets. Solver-agnostic from day one.
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, Reduced Models, Deltas Comparisons
Compare sensitivity sweeps, reduced model variants, and case-to-case deltas without manual post-processing. See exactly how results shift when parameters, fidelity, or scenarios change — 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 break every time the model, naming convention, or report layout changes. 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.
Request Early Access
ThermaPost® is in early access. Book a 15-minute live demo and see it work on real thermal data — or send us your output files and we will show you what it finds.
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