MSC.SOFTWARE INTRODUCES CAD-EMBEDDED SIMDESIGNER ENTERPRISE

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MSC.SOFTWARE INTRODUCES CAD-EMBEDDED SIMDESIGNER ENTERPRISE
24 January 2007 - NAFEMS

MSC.Software today announced SimDesigner Enterprise, combining the most extensive CAD-embedded multidiscipline simulation solutions with collaboration available for CATIA V5 users. SimDesigner Enterprise accelerates speed to market and cuts engineering costs by providing design engineers with easier access to a wide-ranging set of integrated simulation workbenches and simulation data management.

"By providing SimDesigner Enterprise for design engineers across the CATIA V5 installed base, customers will benefit with lower costs and more innovative products, and MSC will grow its market opportunity," said William J. Weyand, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, MSC.Software Corporation. "Additionally, simulation specialists can now focus on more complex simulation problems and get to market faster through accelerated design innovation. This provides our enterprise customers with better utilization of their intellectual property."

"We are very pleased that our partnership has been taken to the next level with the SimDesigner Enterprise CATIA V5 integration. This combination will allow for powerful early design validation using their well established and industry accepted solver solutions," said Philippe Forestier executive vice president alliances, marketing & communications, Dassault Systèmes.

Included in the SimDesigner Enterprise bundle are Enterprise Gateways that improve design-CAE interoperability by enabling the output of run-ready simulation decks to MSC Nastran, Marc and LS-Dyna, and subsequently allow results to be viewed inside SimDesigner Enterprise.

"MSC's multidiscipline SimDesigner Enterprise and gateways to its MD Nastran and Marc solutions provides an analysis environment for design engineers in companies using CATIA. This collaborative solution set provides companies a platform to enable them to be more innovative and improve their productivity," said Ed Miller, president, CIMdata.

"A substantial amount of time and money was saved by determining early on the weak areas in the initial design which would not meet spec," said Stephen Doncov, CAE specialist, ASC.

"SimDesigner Enterprise provides design engineers with scaleable, easy to learn simulation tools inside the CAD environment to increase first pass simulations, empower more what-if scenarios to drive innovation and identify design flaws earlier to cut costs," said Glenn Wienkoop, president and chief operating officer, MSC.Software Corporation. "This enables model reuse and data interoperability between design and analysis, allowing CAE specialists to focus on larger, more complicated analysis problems."

Through its all-in-one integrated workbenches, SimDesigner Enterprise creates an easy-to-learn, designer friendly multidiscipline simulation experience while simultaneously enabling direct access to such industry leading and powerful embedded solvers from MSC as MD Nastran, Marc and Adams. Workbenches include structural, motion, nonlinear, thermal and crash.

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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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