commodo
commodo is ANDATA's AI toolkit for finite element simulation, calculating machine-learning features, detecting parts automatically, flagging anomalies and building surrogate models, so engineering teams extract far more insight from crash and structural analyses without leaving their existing CAE workflow.
What is commodo?
commodo stands for complex modelling and simulation operations. It is not a company but a brand of ANDATA, an Austrian deep tech firm based in Hallein that has worked on artificial intelligence and advanced modelling and simulation since 2004. Under the commodo name, ANDATA groups the methods and tools it uses to get more out of simulations in virtual product development.
The brand goes back to an award-winning research project started in 2006, then called Complex Material Modeling Operations, which applied data-based models, softcomputing and software-driven process models to predicting material and component failure in finite element crash analysis. The scope has since widened from finite element and surrogate modelling to in-depth post-processing and data mining inside simulation data management systems.
The offer is organised around ten capabilities: feature calculation for machine learning, automated detection of mechanical structures and form features, data mining in simulation data management, automated result plausibilisation and quality management, deep analytics in post-processing, mesh-independent post-processing, sensitivity and robustness analysis, causality analysis, design of experiment, and surrogate modelling. Mesh independence is central: results are processed on nodes, elements, parts or any arbitrary entity, using existing geometry instead of artificial sensors, which lets differently meshed models be compared at all.
Technically, commodo is assembled from ANDATA products. The FEM Operations Toolbox is the core finite element engine; Expectator is the expert system that plausibilises results and supervises the operational design domain; Stipulator and Brainer prepare and manage data and scenarios; DataDiver explores multidimensional results through dimension reduction, clustering and outlier detection. The mathematical foundation is MATLAB, and both the FEM Operations Toolbox and Expectator are admitted to the MathWorks Third Party Connections Program. Separate automation modules interface with simulation data management systems such as CAE-Bench and Loco, and a live interface connects Animator4 to MATLAB.
The site advertises twenty years of experience, around two hundred functions and twenty million nodes evaluated, and documents fifteen worked use cases.
What it does
- Calculate advanced features from simulation results and geometries for machine learning and AI
- Detect parts, connected components and form features automatically, cutting manual labelling
- Detect anomalies and errors in models and results, and check the operational design domain
- Mine data across simulations regardless of development phase or configuration
- Identify causal chains and root causes behind complex mechanical responses
- Build surrogate models to reduce model order and resource consumption
- Produce automated reports and result-specific visualisations
When to use commodo / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if commodo is the right fit.
When to use commodo
- CAE and FEM engineers who want to apply machine learning to simulation results
- Automotive passive-safety teams running and interpreting crash simulations
- Simulation data management owners responsible for result quality and plausibility
- R&D teams already working in MATLAB or Animator4 who want AI without changing tools
- Organisations operating an SDMS such as CAE-Bench or Loco that need automated analysis modules
When not to use commodo
- Teams looking for a self-service product with public pricing and instant sign-up
- Anyone without finite element simulation data to analyse
- Buyers who need a web or mobile application rather than desktop software
- Developers looking for a public service API to build on
- Small teams unable to enter into a negotiated software licence
How to use commodo
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Contact ANDATA at office@andata.at or by phone to discuss scope and licensing, as there is no self-service sign-up
- Agree a licence and, where needed, a custom compilation of modules matched to your workflow
- Sign in to the ANDATA login area to download the software packages and extensions your licence covers
- Install the toolboxes into an existing MATLAB environment, or run them as standalone software
- Connect the automation modules to your simulation data management system, such as CAE-Bench or Loco
- Set up the Animator4 to MATLAB live interface so results land in the familiar graphics environment
- Point the tools at your finite element results and geometries, then define the selections and entities to analyse
- Run feature extraction, anomaly detection, sensitivity, causality or surrogate modelling as the task requires
- Consult the online manuals built into the MATLAB help pages, plus the ANDATA FAQ and software blog
- Raise technical questions at support@andata.at or via the software support form; training courses are also available
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Rare specialisation: AI applied to finite element post-processing, backed by about twenty years of practice
- Fits into existing tooling such as MATLAB, Animator4 and SDMS platforms instead of replacing it
- Integration modules are stated to need no extra user training and no direct MATLAB usage
- FEM Operations Toolbox and Expectator are admitted to the MathWorks Third Party Connections Program
- Publisher holds ISO 9001:2015 certification from TUV SUD, valid until 31 October 2027, and is a TISAX participant
- Mesh-independent processing makes results from differently meshed models comparable
- Visibly active, with lectures announced at the NAFEMS DACH 2026 conference
Cons
- No public pricing, no plans and no free trial: every engagement goes through sales
- commodo.at publishes no terms and conditions, so the contractual relationship is not public
- No service API, no web application and no mobile application
- Product documentation sits behind the MATLAB help and a licensed login area
- Contact details, privacy policy and support all live on the parent domain andata.at
- Narrow scope: without finite element simulation data the tool has no purpose
- The site returns no 404 page, so a mistyped URL silently shows the homepage
Pricing & Plans
No pricing is published. commodo.at has no pricing page anywhere in its sitemap, and the ANDATA product pages carry no figures either, so neither a free plan nor a paid entry point can be quoted here. The commercial model is a negotiated software licence: the privacy declaration refers to the expiration of the licence agreement, and the download area is reserved for licence holders. The Tools page also offers custom compilations and modules, which implies a scope agreed case by case. Prospective users must contact ANDATA at office@andata.at or on +43 6245 74063 to obtain a quotation.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how commodo handles your data.
GDPR overview
ANDATA's privacy declaration, which commodo.at adopts in full, states that data is processed only on the basis of the statutory provisions, naming the GDPR and the Austrian TKG 2003, and that personal data is kept to a minimum. Visitors may request information, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, revocation and objection, and may complain either to ANDATA at dataprotection@andata.at or to the data protection authority. Web statistics use Matomo hosted exclusively on ANDATA's own servers, with IP anonymisation and a cookieless configuration; no data goes to third parties and a tracking opt-out covers all ANDATA sites. The publisher is established in Austria, so no Article 27 representative is required. Note that the declaration addresses the websites, not the simulation data the software handles.
Who owns the data?
ANDATA publishes no terms and conditions for commodo, and its privacy declaration covers the website and the licensed download area rather than the simulation data the software processes. No clause states who owns customer simulation results, and none grants ANDATA any right over them. In practice the tools are MATLAB toolboxes and standalone programs that run on the customer's own infrastructure, so the data does not leave it by design. Login accounts created to download software and extensions are deleted at the latest a few months after the licence agreement expires. Anyone needing a contractual ownership guarantee should ask for it before signing.
Reuse rights
Because no terms and conditions page exists, the site sets out no licence terms governing what a customer may do with the results commodo produces. ANDATA states that it processes personal data only on the basis of the GDPR and the Austrian TKG 2003, and that it deliberately keeps the volume of personal data as small as possible. Support and contact requests are forwarded to the responsible staff and handled in an issue tracking system, which a correspondent may object to by saying so at the start of the exchange. Nothing on the site claims any right to reuse customer simulation data, and training AI models on customer data is never mentioned in any form.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
commodo is desktop software rather than a hosted service: the tools are MATLAB toolboxes that can also run standalone, and the automation modules are installed inside the customer's own simulation data management system. Nothing on the site describes ANDATA hosting customer simulation data, and no hosting country or region is stated for it, so none has been recorded. The only hosting information ANDATA publishes concerns its websites: the Matomo web analytics service runs exclusively on ANDATA's own web servers, all analytics data stays there, and none is passed to third parties. IP addresses are truncated before analysis and the setup is cookieless apart from a session cookie. The commodo.at web server itself resolves to an Austrian address. Readers should not treat the website hosting arrangement as a statement about where simulation data would live: that question is not answered publicly and would have to be settled in the licence agreement.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting commodo.
- Automated plausibility checking can breed complacency: an engineer who trusts the anomaly detector may stop inspecting results personally
- Surrogate models trade accuracy for speed, and a team under deadline pressure can forget which decisions rest on an approximation
- Detected causalities are statistical findings about a model, not proof of physical cause; over-reading them can push a design the wrong way
- Operational design domain checks only cover the domain that was actually defined, so unexamined load cases can pass silently
- No terms and conditions are published on commodo.at, so data ownership and liability are settled privately in the licence rather than transparently
- Three spellings of the publisher's legal name circulate: Andata Development Technology GmbH in the imprint, Andata Entwicklungstechnologie GmbH in the Austrian company register, and Andata Development Technologies GmbH on the ISO 9001 certificate
- Deep dependence on MATLAB and on one small Austrian vendor concentrates both licensing and continuity risk
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Setup is straightforward for an engineering team that is already equipped, and impossible without one. The toolboxes install into an existing MATLAB environment or run standalone, and ANDATA supplies custom compilations and modules that slot into simulation data management systems and standard CAE workflows. ANDATA states these integrated modules need no extra user training and no direct MATLAB usage. Online manuals are built into the MATLAB help pages, and training courses are offered. The real prerequisites are organisational: a licence has to be negotiated first, and you need finite element results and an established CAE toolchain to point the software at.
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Should you pick commodo?
commodo is a specialist offering rather than a general-purpose AI product. It packages two decades of ANDATA's work into a set of MATLAB-based tools that apply machine learning and pattern recognition to finite element simulation results, and its audience is narrow but well defined: CAE and crash simulation engineers, passive safety teams, and the people accountable for result quality inside simulation data management systems.
Its main strength is that it asks nobody to change tools. The toolboxes extend MATLAB, the automation modules plug into systems such as CAE-Bench and Loco, and results are delivered back into Animator4, the environment engineers already use. Mesh-independent processing is the technically distinctive part, because it makes results computed on different meshes comparable at all. The publisher's credentials are verifiable: Andata Development Technology GmbH has been registered in Austria since 6 April 2004, holds ISO 9001:2015 certification from TUV SUD valid until 31 October 2027, and has had two of its toolboxes admitted to the MathWorks Third Party Connections Program.
The reservations are commercial rather than technical. No price, no plan and no trial is published anywhere; commodo.at carries no terms and conditions at all; and the documentation that would let a buyer judge the product sits behind a licensed login area. Contact details, the privacy policy and support all live on the parent domain andata.at, which makes commodo.at read as a showcase rather than a self-contained product site.
Teams with finite element data and a genuine post-processing bottleneck will find an unusually deep specialist here. Anyone hoping to evaluate the software without first speaking to the vendor will not get far.
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