Moldflow Announces the Release of Moldflow Plastics Insight 6.2

  
    
  
  
    
      Moldflow Corporation (NASDAQ: MFLO), the leading provider of plastics 
      simulation software that empowers more users to optimize more designs 
      across their enterprise, today announced the release of Moldflow 
      Plastics Insight® (MPI®) 
      6.2. MPI 6.2 has significant enhancements to allow more people to work 
      faster on larger models and interface to more applications. In addition, 
      multiple technology enhancements allow users to improve their 
      productivity.
    
    
      The MPI 6.2, 3D Flow solver analysis speed has on average, more than 
      doubled. This analysis speed improvement allows users to be more 
      productive, which can result in faster turnaround time on projects. “I 
      ran a few 3D analyses in both MPI 6.1 and MPI 6.2 and the extent to 
      which the flow solver has increased in speed is really impressive,” 
      says James McGuire, Senior CAE Engineer at BASF Corporation. MPI 6.2 
      also supports Microsoft Windows 64-bit operating systems, which results 
      in more efficient handling of large models and an overall improvement in 
      product performance.
    
    
      A key feature in MPI 6.2 is configurable Workspaces, which allow the 
      user interface to be customized to fit a user’s 
      job function, knowledge, skill set and experience. Workspaces allow 
      users to significantly reduce their implementation and support costs. 
      This enables everyone from industrial designers to simulation analysts 
      and process engineers to benefit from Moldflow technology by doing 
      analysis earlier and more often in the product design cycle.
    
    
      MPI 6.2 also contains technology innovations for advanced gate location 
      optimization, a micro-mechanics model to improve warpage predictions of 
      fiber-filled materials, the extension of 3D gas-assist analysis to 
      predict part warpage, simulation of a new rapid heating/cooling process, 
      venting analysis of thermoset materials and new application programming 
      interface (API) commands that will ensure MPI continues to tightly 
      integrate with customer’s processes and 
      workflows.
    
    
      A new data export option in MPI 6.2 allows Moldflow results to be used 
      in HyperStudy®, Altair Engineering’s 
      design and process optimization program. “By 
      linking MPI and HyperStudy, design engineers have a very powerful tool 
      to gain insight into the robustness of a plastic part design and perform 
      multi-disciplinary trade-off and optimization studies, balancing 
      performance and manufacturability,” says Jeff 
      Brennan, Altair’s Vice-President of 
      Engineering Software. “It also provides a 
      seamless way for Moldflow results to be post-processed using Altair 
      Engineering’s HyperView®.”
    
    
      A new interface to CODE V®, the 
      industry-leading optical design software from Optical Research 
      Associates (ORA®), allows MPI results to be 
      used to investigate how the molding process affects the optical 
      properties of lenses. “The development of 
      special optical grade plastics materials has allowed the mass production 
      of lightweight injection molded lenses for consumer electronics, such as 
      in the cameras of most modern cell phones,” 
      said David Hasenauer, ORA's CODE V Product Manager. “The 
      quality of these plastic lenses is dependent on the injection molding 
      process and any molded-in defects, which can be predicted by Moldflow. 
      Now users of both CODE V and MPI 6.2 can use the interface between the 
      products to design better quality plastic lenses.”
    
    
      Murali Annareddy, Moldflow Director of Product Marketing, states, “Moldflow’s 
      driving philosophy is to develop technology partnerships with our 
      customers that are founded on new product innovation so they can improve 
      the design and manufacture of plastic parts.” 
      He continued, “The release of MPI 6.2 is a 
      perfect example of those partnerships in action as it contains numerous 
      customer-driven enhancement requests, configurability options that allow 
      more users to benefit from simulation, interfaces to industry-standard 
      partner applications and speed & capacity improvements that will help 
      reduce overall project times.”
    
    
      Availability
    
    
      Moldflow Plastics Insight 6.2 is available now. For more information, 
      please call Moldflow in the US at +508.358.5848 or visit www.moldflow.com.
    
    
      About Moldflow Corporation
    
    
      Moldflow (NASDAQ: MFLO) is the leading provider of plastics simulation 
      software that empowers more users to optimize more designs across their 
      enterprise from the earliest stages of new product development. Moldflow 
      products benefit anyone involved in the design or manufacture of 
      plastics injection molded parts including industrial designers, 
      mechanical design engineers, CAE analysts, mold designers, mold makers, 
      process engineers and manufacturing engineers. For more information, 
      visit www.moldflow.com.
    
    
      Note: Moldflow, Moldflow Plastics Insight and MPI, are registered 
      trademarks of Moldflow Corporation or its subsidiaries worldwide. All 
      other trademarks are properties of their respective holders.