CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
22 July 2004
Company News
MSC.Software Extends MSC.Nastran Development Organization With New EMEA Regional Development Center
MSC.Software Corp. announced the establishment of a new EMEA (Europe, Middle-East & Africa) Regional Development Center for MSC.Nastran. The new team will concentrate on enhancements in key automotive and aerospace capability areas, and will provide a direct regional development capacity to compliment the both the North American MSC.Nastran development organization and established industry consortia and user groups.
MSC.Software customers in EMEA have benefited for some years from similar regional development centers for MSC.Marc, MSC.ADAMS, and MSC.Patran, which have improved the working relationship between customers and MSC.Software technical staff. The objective of this new development team is to similarly drive future developments in MSC.Nastran to ensure MSC.Software meets the specific needs of strategic EMEA customers. In addition, the work completed by the EMEA Regional Development Team will be fully integrated with the work of the entire worldwide MSC.Software product development organization, ensuring that customers around the world gain the benefit of the latest MSC.Nastran developments.
"Closer customer involvement, from the earliest stages of planning, is a critical factor in successfully aligning our development activities to the needs of our customers," confirmed Amir Mobayen, Senior Vice President, MSC.Software EMEA. "Bringing a significant MSC.Nastran development capability to the EMEA region will noticeably improve our responsiveness, and coordinating the development team with our industry consortia will ensure that our future product capabilities accurately meet market requirements."
Software development activities within the EMEA region will focus on tools and enhancements for MSC.Nastran functionality in the aerospace and automotive application areas, including improvements to areas such as dynamics, acoustics and vibration facilities for NVH, non-linear functionality for automotive powertrain and driveline, durability, aero-elasticity, flight loading and aerodynamics.
The interoperability of existing capabilities will also continue be a key development focus, including the continued development of the flexible finite element and rigid multi-body dynamics solutions of MSC.Nastran and MSC.ADAMS. Further developments of MSC.Nastran s solution sequences SOL600 and SOL700 will continue to unite traditionally separate simulation disciplines, tightening the links between linear and nonlinear, and static and dynamic/crash analysis. Coupling between thermal and mechanical simulations will also be a component of the integration development schedule.
For additional information about MSC.Software's products and services, please visit http://www.mscsoftware.com
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