CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

20 October 2009

Product News

NEi Software Partners with MAESTRO to Reduce Analysis Time and Costs for the Shipbuilding Industry

NEi Software has joined forces with DRS, the worldwide distributors of MAESTRO in order to better serve the shipbuilding industry by streamlining the process of global/local hull analysis. MAESTRO has long been known as a standard for global full ship structural Finite Element Analysis (FEA), while NEi Software is used extensively for local (or fine-mesh) analysis by both the defense and commercial segments of the shipbuilding industry. These two technologies are now used to execute a bi-directional coupling that facilitates the iterative global/local analysis process. By means of this partnership, the naval architect can perform MAESTRO global analysis and pass those results to NEi Nastran for detailed/local analysis. Additionally, local analyses, done completely in NEi Nastran, can be merged with MAESTRO models in order to expedite the process. Customers can expect more efficient designs and analyses of their structural design, significantly reducing development time costs.

NEi is now an authorized reseller of MAESTRO in the USA. The combined capabilities of MAESTRO and NEi Nastran will be exhibited at SAVIAC's 80th Shock & Vibration Symposium in San Diego October 25-29.

For more information visit http://www.NEiSoftware.com

About DRS

DRS is the exclusive master-distributor and developer of MAESTRO, a design tool specifically tailored to suit naval architects and their global Finite Element Analysis and limit-state (failure mode) evaluation needs. MAESTRO combines rapid coarse-mesh structural modeling, ship-based loading, Finite Element Analysis, limit-state evaluation, and post-processing, all in a single Windows-based graphical user interface. MAESTRO is wholly-owned by Optimum Design, Inc.

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