MSC.Software Partners With Brembo to Improve Virtual Product Development Tools for Brakes
01 September 2004 - 12:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
MSC.Software Partners With Brembo to Improve Virtual Product
Development Tools for Brakes Italian Brake Systems Provider
Partners With MSC.Software to Develop New Software Toolkit for
Simulation of Brake Pad Stress and Fatigue SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug.
31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE:MNS), the
leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD)
products including simulation software and services and Brembo, a
worldwide brake systems provider, have signed an agreement to
develop a customized simulation toolkit, based upon MSC.Marc, to
simulate stress and fatigue characteristics of automotive brake
pads. "Application-specific simulation solutions are a very
important part of the VPD market, especially in the automotive
industry where each assembly and subsystem has a unique development
process requiring a combination of multiple product development
disciplines," said Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive
officer of MSC.Software. "MSC.Software is constantly looking for
ways to ensure that our products meet the demands of our worldwide
customer base and the best way to do that is to partner with our
customers and create consortiums to guide the development of the
software tools. We have successfully done this for other
MSC.Software applications such as ADAMS/Engine, MSC.Flightloads,
and SimDesigner Suspension and we look forward to completing this
project with Brembo and bringing a valuable new brake pad tool to
market." "By delivering reliable and safe brake systems to our
demanding customers we have gained a high reputation and growing
success all over the world," said Giovanni Gotti at Brembo. "The
development of brake systems is a difficult task, because it
includes the simultaneous consideration of different design
characteristics such as being lighter, delivering a higher
performances, and assuring a better durability. Virtual Product
Development (VPD) has become a decisive factor to success in
managing complex design projects like this. Our engineers are
relying on MSC.Software products such as MSC.Nastran, MSC.Marc, and
MSC.Patran every day, right from the concept phase throughout the
entire design process, in order to satisfy all those different
needs. The reliability of these products combined with the
technical expertise provided by MSC.Software Italy during the last
years, convinced us to move forward in our co-operation and to sign
an agreement to jointly develop a software interface. This tool
will be a fully-customized version of MSC.Marc which will allow to
easily build complete brake models -- including pads -- to simulate
them under different working conditions and to predict the pads
wear under all kinds of circumstances." The software toolkit
developed jointly by MSC.Software and Brembo is being developed by
the MSC.Software technical staff at the Brembo Technical Centre in
Curno (Italy). The new technology will immediately be applied to
all new Brembo brake system designs and available to MSC.Software
customers worldwide beginning in 2005. About Brembo Brembo
currently operates in 4 continents and in 14 countries, such as
Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Great Britain, Germany,
France, Sweden, the USA, China and Japan. At present, Brembo
employees over 4000 people, of which 10% are engineers and product
specialists working in research and development. The Brembo
production is principally located in Italy, Spain, Mexico, Poland,
Brazil and China. The marketing activities are carried out by
companies working in the vicinity of our main markets, based in
Great Britain, California, Sweden, Germany, France, Japan and
China. For additional information about Brembo, please visit
http://www.brembo.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
Corp. CONTACT: 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 Corp. Web site:
http://www.brembo.com/ Web site: http://www.mscsoftware.com/
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