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22 September 2004

Implementation Investments

Seeber Italy Invests in the MSC.MasterKey Licensing System To Improve Virtual Product Development

MSC.Software Corp . announced that Seeber Italy (Seeber), a subsidiary of the Röchling Automotive KG and one of the world's leading manufacturers of systems and components for the automotive industry, has invested in the MSC.MasterKey license system. Seeber, who has relied upon MSC.Marc for more than 4 years for the non-linear simulation of Degas bottles, will now implement the integrated functionality of MSC.Marc and MSC.Nastran for dynamic structural analysis of other products including intake systems, filler housings, charge ducts for intercooler, fan and shrouds.

"Seeber is an excellent example of many of our small and medium-sized customers who have relied upon one or two of our software tools for a number of years. As their processes and skills mature, they are looking to increase their investments and further improve their product development processes and MSC.Software, because of past successes, is their partner of choice," says Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "There is a direct correlation between investments in VPD technologies and processes and saving time and money. We're very pleased that Seeber has chosen to increase their investment in MSC.Software products and services and we are confident they will see a rapid return on their investment."

"When we first realized that we needed software to simulate non-linear material behavior we performed a benchmark and MSC.Marc came out best for our needs," said Ing. Ferdinand Di Pauli, manager of the simulation department at Seeber in Leifers, Italy. "As our needs have developed, we use MSC.Marc to simulate almost all the products we develop and now we want to include the simulation of structural dynamic. Because we were already an MSC.Software customer we looked at what MSC.Software had to offer. We decided on MSC.Nastran because it is the state of the art software for this kind of simulation and when MSC.Software proposed the MasterKey License System we realized that this was a kind of flexible offer that would include the products we wanted and cover all of our simulation needs within structural analysis, at reasonable conditions. We will deepen our knowledge within VPD and will keep on relying on MSC.Software products. I believe that the future of Virtual Product Development lies within the integration of the different software products. MSC.Software is offering a lot in this area and is an experienced provider of VPD solutions."

Seeber Rochling Automotive, a subsidiary of the Röchling Group, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of systems and components made of polymer materials and natural fiber plastic composites for the automotive industry. In 2003 Seeber employed approximately 3,300 people at 18 production and R&D facilities worldwide and had annual sales of 566 million Euro.

The Rochling-Group is a family-run business, which was founded in the Saarland 180 years ago. The former steel-trading-house Rochling has developed into a worldwide operating company leading in the fields of Industrial Plastics, Automotive Engineering, Electronics and Defence. Its principal office is located in Mannheim, Germany. With its nearly 30.000 employees, the Rochling-Group generated sales of 5.771 billion Euro in the year 2003. For more information about Seeber please visit http://www.seeber.it

 

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