Press Release
Leading German Consulting Firm - Brunel - Selects Advanced Multidisciplinary Enterprise Simulation Tools from MSC.Software
SANTA ANA, Calif. - February 28, 2007 - MSC.Software Corp. (NASDAQ: MSCS), the leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions and services, today announced that Brunel GmbH, a Germany-based provider of technology and management consulting, has selected SimXpert to deliver faster, more accurate and more cost-efficient results to customers within the automotive and aerospace industry. With SimXpert, Brunel will be able to leverage a fully integrated, multidiscipline simulation environment for mechanical simulation for its automotive and aerospace customers.
Auto manufacturing is one of the most significant industries to the German economy and German automakers face fierce global competition, making technical innovation and cost efficiency of critical importance. In the face of the increasing complexity of automobile design and the processes required to build them, manufacturers have reduced development time by using SimXpert, which enables shared simulation data across design teams. In order to reduce development time and enable their engineers to test multiple variables simultaneously in a collaborative environment, Brunel selected SimXpert.
"Brunel has a long history of providing the most innovative technical consulting in the industry. We selected SimXpert because we want to bring our customers the greatest value and most advanced technology on the market," said Carsten Siebeneich, general manager of Brunel in Germany. "MSC. Software is the leader in the multidiscipline simulation space, so choosing them made perfect sense for our growing practice."
"The partnership between Brunel's world-class domain expertise and MSC.Software's multidiscipline simulation technology is the ultimate win for customers," said Amir Mobayen , Senior Vice President, EMEA for MSC.Software. "We are proud to work with Brunel to deliver the best-of-breed solutions to customers within the German automotive industry."
About SimXpert
SimXpert leads to significant return on investment by accelerating the speed and accuracy of simulation; automating simulation processes and tasks; capturing knowledge, and radically improving the analysis process and therefore business productivity and innovation. SimXpert provides the tools needed to extend global engineering processes to the enterprise and supply chain level through SimXpert's Template Studio, SimTemplate, which enables expert analysts to author simulation best practices and standards for global enterprise use as well as to capture simulation knowledge and perform quick task automation. Once created, SimTemplate can be managed by SimManager as well as shared with a variety of role-based users, including design engineers with SimDesigner, to drive simulation capabilities further upstream in the product development process. With SimXpert, companies can also subsequently scale and share simulation best practices that have been developed throughout the global engineering enterprise and with all points of the supply chain.
About Brunel
Brunel specializes in the support of development and innovation projects for the industry, with an interdisciplinary team of engineering and management experts. One of the focal points of the globally active company is the processing of technology and management issues as a project. Depending on the customer's requirements, the corresponding Brunel specialists become active and supplement the existing project team within the customer's company with their expertise.
In Germany, Brunel offers engineering and management expertise of 1.650 experienced engineers from 50 locations. In so doing, the company is primarily active in the automotive, IT, electronics, telecommunications, aerospace, mechanical engineering and plant constructions, railway technology and shipbuilding sectors.
http://www.brunel.de/
About MSC.Software Corporation
MSC.Software (NASDAQ: MSCS) is the global leader of enterprise simulation solutions, that help 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 1200 people in 23 countries. For additional information about MSC.Software's products and services, please visit www.mscsoftware.com.
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