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Alenia Aeronautica Invests in MSC.Software Products and Services to Improve Virtual Product Development Process Italian Aeronautics Manufacture and 7E7 Supplier Invests in MSC.Robust Design and MSC.Nastran 2004 via the MSC.MasterKey License System SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE:MNS), the leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD) products including simulation software and services, today announced that Alenia Aeronautica Italy, a Finmeccanica company, has invested more than euro 100.000 in VPD products and services via MSC.Software's MSC.MasterKey licensing system. The Italian aeronautics company will use MSC.Robust Design and MSC.Nastran 2004 for stress testing and stochastic analysis of different engineering projects, including the design of the composite wing boxes and horizontal tails for new aircraft. In addition, the MSC.Software professional services team will be providing integration and customization of MSC.Robust Design within Alenia's product development process to ensure optimal compliance with manufacturing requirements. "MSC.Robust Design provides a new and more powerful insight into design sensitivity, allowing companies such as Alenia Aeronautica to manage risk and improve product quality, safety and performance by making the simulation of uncertainty a key component of the product development process," says Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "The more complex a product is, the higher the chance that some combination of uncertainties will have an unexpected and potentially undesired effect. We are excited about the potential for MSC.Robust Design and are working hard to help other customers take advantage of this exciting technology within their product development processes." "Safety comes first in designing airplanes involving complex components with high demands on robustness. We were looking for a stochastic tool to improve the robustness of our wing box design and help to exclude uncertainties within the development process. We have known MSC.Software as a reliable partner for software and services for many years and when the question of a stochastic tool came up, we chose MSC.Robust Design. It gives us the possibility to unlock hidden knowledge in our virtual models and designs," said Dr. Ing. P. Cerreta - Alenia Aeronautica - Technical Director of 7E7 "For us, MSC.Robust Design opens the possibility to extract additional, often unexpected, information about our design. It helps us to obtain a realistic estimate of how our design will perform in terms of noise, vibration or crashworthiness. By using MSC.Robust Design, we can automatically consider a range of simulations that randomly varies the sheet thickness, material property scatter, weld imperfections or loading in order to simulate a realistic variety of outcomes. By taking into account the complexity of real world and providing a better understanding of the design sensitivity, MSC.Robust Design helps us to improve the product quality while at the same time gives us the possibility to develop faster, test more variants and therefore save time and money." About Alenia Aeronautica Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company employs more than 8500 people on programs and projects for civil and military applications. Since 1912 the Alenia Aeronautica and its predecessors have built more than 12,000 aircrafts, often on original design. Some of the world's most advanced aircraft came out of Alenia Aeronautic plants, built either directly or through international cooperation ventures. In its role as system integrator, the company designs and develops complete aeronautical systems with full responsibility toward the final customer. The company is also involved in the design and development of complete state-of-the art aeronautical systems on a shared partnership basis with other companies. As a risk-sharing supplier, it designs and manufactures entire airframe components and assemblies. In 2003 it reached a value of production of about euros 1188 million, 80% of this value was reached through export activities. For more information about Alenia Aeronautica please visit http://www.alenia-aeronautica.it/. 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 Corp. CONTACT: Todd Evans, Media Relations, +1-714-445-3066, , or Evelyn Gebhardt, Media Relations-EMEA, +49-6421-951323, , both of MSC.Software Web site: http://www.alenia-aeronautica.it/ Web site: http://www.mscsoftware.com/

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