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MSC SIMENTERPRISE LAUNCHED
07 January 2007 - NAFEMS

MSC.Software Corp. has announced the introduction of SimEnterprise, an enterprise simulation development platform that enables computer-aided-engineering designers, analysts, managers and the supply chain to interact hroughout the design process, in an open systems approach using their preferred development software, to deliver substantial collaboration, data management and process automation benefits.

SimEnterprise is a revolutionary technological approach for the industry, and has been created to enhance the way engineering teams can access and work with data, sharing simulation information across the extended enterprise.

Based on a Services Oriented Architecture, SimEnterprise enables open connectivity between designers, analysts, and other simulation stakeholders for a highly collaborative design ecosystem, allowing each stakeholder to work within their preferred environments. With SimEnterprise, product development stakeholders, regardless of application preference or global location, can easily collaborate and manage simulation and simulation-based design information to accelerate product development in a highly cost-efficient manner.

Providing built-in connectivity to MSC.Software's leading solver technology, including MD Nastran, SimEnterprise solutions allow companies to easily deploy role-based simulation applications and tools, including existing MSC applications such as MSC SimDesigner and MSC SimManager, and to seamlessly integrate with third party applications and in-house or custom applications, to speed simulation and design processes.

"While the CAE industry has long been designing leading edge technologies, the way in which they share information is often antiquated and out-of-date. With their introduction of SimEnterprise, MSC.Software is focusing on changing the way designers and analysts communicate in order to speed design and production, bringing efficiency boosts to global business," said Ed Miller, president, CIMdata. "SimEnterprise is intended to provide a Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) approach for their solution suite in order to enable groups across a supply chain to more easily locate, interact, and take advantage of the information that is captured in simulation tests."

SimEnterprise solutions deliver substantial and wide ranging data management capabilities with included functionality that provides companies with centralized storage and intelligent access to simulation models, results, and data. The SimEnterprise platform enables engineering teams and the supply chain to leverage simulation applications for managed access to simulation information as well as an audit trail for tracking the metadata associated with all simulation data.

Besides delivering a common multi-discipline solver foundation to leverage next-generation MSC.Software capabilities including MD Nastran, SimEnterprise also provides an open foundation for simulation/CAE development ecosystems. To accommodate the integration of other solvers, MSC has created the MD Partner Program that includes key partners such as:

* Engineous, providers of iSIGHT software that integrates key steps in the product design process, then automates and executes these steps through design exploration tools.

* nCode, providers of hardware, software and support services that enable customers to optimize their durability engineering processes.

* LSTC, providers of LS-DYNA, which is widely used by the automotive industry to analyze vehicle designs and accurately predict a car's behavior in a collision, as well as the effects of the collision upon the car's occupants.

* FFT, developers and providers of the ACTRAN finite element software for acoustic, vibro-acoustic and aero-acoustic modeling.

* CD-adapco, a leading global provider of full-spectrum engineering simulation solutions for fluid flow, heat transfer and stress.

"Throughout the years, businesses have faced the challenge of leveraging the diverse simulation information that engineering teams generate in product development cycles. SimEnterprise has been developed to provide businesses with a platform that can increase collaboration, automate processes and recapture, manage, and re use their simulation resources to create efficiencies for competitive advantage," said Glenn Wienkoop, president and chief operating officer of MSC.Software Corp. "As the most significant advancement for the engineering community and CAE industry in 20 years, SimEnterprise applications give designers, analysts and managers the ability to harness the simulation information they are generating, regardless of their preferred application environment, to create better products in a faster and more intelligent fashion."

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About: NAFEMS
NAFEMS is a not for profit organisation aimed at promoting best practices and also fostering education and awareness in the engineering analysis community. In line with its objectives to promote the effective use of simulation technologies, NAFEMS is continually seeking to create awareness of new analysis methodologies, deliver education & training, and stimulate the adoption of best practices and standards by offering a platform for continuous professional development.

By the late 1970s and early 1980s, as computing power became more widely available, increasingly industry was starting to solve practical engineering problems using finite element analysis techniques.

There was however considerable concern that the accuracy of the methods, and software implementations, required to be verified in order to allow the results to be effectively used.

Following extensive lobbying, by industry and academia, the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) set up, and funded, a project within the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), based in East Kilbride, Scotland, to investigate the issues.

As a result the National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards, quickly shortened to the acronym NAFEMS, was founded as a special interest group in 1983 with a specific objective namely:

"To promote the safe and reliable use of finite element and related technology"

In order to keep engineers abreast of the latest developments in the Analysis World the quarterly magazine BENCHmark was launched by NAFEMS in July 1987.

After seven years of seed funding by the UK government, and with the support of its industrial members, the decision was taken to launch NAFEMS Ltd as an independent not-for-profit company, owned by its member's in 1990.

The company celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2000, and has developed both the scope of its technology focus and its membership well beyond the original vision.

Today NAFEMS and its members are involved in many different types of engineering simulation covering both products and processes. Membership continues to grow, now exceeding 700 corporate members in over 30 different countries. Steering groups have been set up in the UK, France, Germany, and the USA to co-ordinate local activities and interaction with members.

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