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MSC.Software Announces 2005 Releases of SimOffice VPD Products
New Functionality Gives Product Development Engineers Improved Interoperability
and Productivity
SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MSC.Software Corp.
(NYSE:MNS), the leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD)
products including simulation software and services, today announced the
release of MSC.Software SimOffice products MSC.Nastran 2005, MSC.Patran 2005,
MSC.ADAMS 2005, MSC.Marc 2005 and MSC.Dytran 2005.
The 2005 versions of the core MSC.Software VPD products are the first set of
products released under the SimOffice brand. MSC.Software's SimOffice is a VPD
environment based upon scaleable, interoperable products that help engineers in
every industry solve complex product development challenges by testing
integrated virtual prototypes within a single, unified framework. The
SimOffice product line includes all of the stand-alone products from
MSC.Software including the industry's most well respected tools for performing
virtual testing of deformation, stress, fatigue, motion, hydraulics, controls,
crash, thermal, vibration, acoustics, and other engineering disciplines. By
utilizing virtual analysis and testing products and techniques in concert with
physical prototype testing, manufacturers can reduce the time and costs
associated with product development and reduce the number of costly physical
prototypes required to ensure product performance.
"The simultaneous release of our core products, together with key enhancements
to their interoperability, highlights our vision for providing the industry's
best and most well-integrated virtual product development environment," says
Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "SimOffice
is built upon the foundation of our industry-leading software products, enabled
by the MSC.MasterKey licensing system, and will evolve over time to be the
industry's best, open architecture, virtual product development environment.
Our customers tell us loudly and clearly that they want integrated product
functionality, ease of use and flexibility to use whatever tool they need,
whenever they need it. SimOffice is our answer to these demands and we are
confident that customers making investments in VPD technologies will take
advantage of the robust, integrated capabilities of SimOffice."
The synchronized launch of SimOffice underscores MSC.Software's strategy to
provide customers with the best, most well-integrated VPD tools for every step
of the product development process. Some of the highlights of the 2005
releases include:
* MSC.Nastran 2005: The flagship member of the SimOffice product family
delivers new functionality and improved modeling, analysis and
post-processing capability focused on ease-of-use, speed, and accuracy
in nonlinear simulation; optimization; generalized dynamics; rotor
dynamics; acoustics; noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH); and
extended element and loads and boundary condition technology. Other
enhancements include increased robustness in the Implicit Nonlinear
product module (SOL 600); new ACMS (automated component mode synthesis)
enhancements focused on "matrix domain" decomposition, which greatly
improves the performance and handling of complex geometry over the
"geometry domain" decomposition method; and improved MSC.Patran, MSC.
ADAMS and MSC.Marc integration for greater interoperability and
extensibility. Pre-release capabilities in MSC.Nastran 2005 include
the introduction of the Explicit Nonlinear product module (SOL 700) for
simulating crash (impact, penetration, and crush), the Topology
Optimization product module for design optimization based on component
topology, and an Arbitrary Beam Section modeling capability for
improved accuracy in complex beam cross-section definitions. For more
information on MSC.Nastran and to learn more about what's new with
MSC.Nastran 2005, please visit http://nastran.mscsoftware.com/.
* MSC.Patran 2005: More accurately import various types of CAD geometry;
better organize your CAD data with automatic creation of Patran Groups
from CAD Layers; reduced mesh creation time with enhancements to
Advanced Surface Mesher; more easily solve a broad class of problems
using the improved interoperability with MSC.Marc, MSC.Dytran,
MSC.Nastran, and LS-DYNA; gain a better understanding of Finite Element
results data with combined component plots. For more information on
MSC.Patran and to learn more about what's new with MSC.Patran 2005,
please visit http://patran.mscsoftware.com/.
* MSC.ADAMS 2005: New ADAMS/Engine Piston module for understanding
secondary piston motion; belt and chain solutions in ADAMS/Engine are 4
to 12 times faster; breakthrough productivity gains for complex
durability and solid contact models using new 2nd order Hilber-Hughes-
Taylor integrator; critical stresses can now be obtained at least a
factor of 3 times faster with ADAMS/Durability hotspots computation;
improved integration of MSC.EASY5 and MSC.ADAMS as well as MSC.Nastran
and MSC.ADAMS enable a more complete virtual prototype; designs can be
improved and optimized for NVH performance due to expanded integration
between ADAMS/Vibration and ADAMS/Insight. For more information on
MSC.ADAMS and to learn more about what's new with MSC.ADAMS 2005,
please visit http://adams.mscsoftware.com/.
* MSC.Dytran 2005: New Adaptive Multiple Eulerian Domain technology for
solving complex fluid-structure interaction problems such as aircraft
crashworthiness on water, bird strike simulation with multiple impacts,
shaped charge simulation and weapons design, ship collision and
underwater explosions, blast resistance and survivability, and pouring
of liquids into containers; new elements, constraints, and material
models for MSC.Dytran LS-DYNA, as well as expanded support for all
major UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms for greater speed and
scalability under a single analysis environment. For more information
on MSC.Dytran and to learn more about what's new with MSC.Dytran 2005,
please visit http://dytran.mscsoftware.com/.
* MSC.Marc 2005: Improved contact and friction modeling, easier control
of loading history and material property definition with new
multivariable table input,; faster, more accurate prediction of key
powertrain design parameters using bolt modeling and analysis of large
engine block models; tighter integration with MSC.Nastran, MSC.Patran,
and MSC.ADAMS. For more information on MSC.Marc and to learn more
about what's new with MSC.Marc 2005, please visit
http://marc.mscsoftware.com/.
For more information on SimOffice, please visit
http://simoffice.mscsoftware.com/ and download the free White Paper-SimOffice:
The Promise of Virtual Product Development
SimOffice Webinar Series
To highlight both the SimOffice strategy and "What's New" in each of the
SimOffice 2005 product families, MSC.Software is hosting two public Webinars on
Thursday, October 7. The SimOffice Webinars will take place at 8:00am Pacific
Time (PT) and again at 6:00pm PT (or 10:00am Tokyo time on Friday, October 8).
In addition, five Webinars highlighting "What's New" in each of the SimOffice
2005 product families will be available for convenient replay on the
MSC.Software Website following the live Webinar on October 7. To register or
to find out more about these Webinars, please visit
http://www.webinars.mscsoftware.com/.
About MSC.Software Corporation
MSC.Software (NYSE:MNS) is the leading global provider of simulation software
and services, that helps companies make money, save time and reduce costs
associated with designing and testing manufactured products. MSC.Software works
with thousands of companies in hundreds of industries to develop better
products faster by utilizing information technology, software, services and
systems. MSC.Software employs more than 1400 people in 23 countries. For
additional information about MSC.Software's products and services, please visit
http://www.mscsoftware.com/.
DATASOURCE: MSC.Software Corporation
CONTACT: Press, Todd Evans, Media Relations, +1-714-445-3066,
, or Evelyn Gebhardt, Media Relations-EMEA,
+49-6421-951323, , or Investors, Joanne Keates,
Director of Investor Relations, +1-323-259-4263,
, all of MSC.Software
Web site: http://adams.mscsoftware.com/
Web site: http://nastran.mscsoftware.com/
Web site: http://patran.mscsoftware.com/
Web site: http://dytran.mscsoftware.com/
Web site: http://marc.mscsoftware.com/
Web site: http://simoffice.mscsoftware.com/
Web site: http://www.webinars.mscsoftware.com/
Web site: http://www.mscsoftware.com/