CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 November 2005
Company News
MSC.Software VPD Conferences Shape the Future for Simulation Technology
MSC.Software Corp. has continued the international VPD Conference series which has now addressed 25 countries and over 1500 manufacturing professionals.
Following earlier successful events in Turkey and the Czech Republic, the EMEA (Europe, Middle-East & Africa) Conference, held at the Hilton Park Hotel in Munich on 24-26 October, brought together MSC.Software's executive and technical staff with manufacturing and engineering organizations, alliance partners, and media and industry analysts from EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions.
In front of a dynamic new corporate backdrop, new MSC.Software CEO, Bill Weyand, described how MSC is responding to changing industry requirements by evolving VPD technology from point solution CAE tools to a complete, open, and integrated simulation environment. The opening Conference address, 'VPD at the Inflection Point', outlined how long-term customer and alliance partnerships are driving the technology needed for enterprise-wide design, development & manufacturing operations. Integrated VPD environments was a central theme that was further explored in presentations from MSC's executives of MSC's SimOffice, SimDesigner and SimManager solution platforms.
"We are continuing to drive a technology and business transformation which more closely aligns our organization with our key EMEA customers. The ongoing success of our VPD Conferences is a confirmation of both the intensity and the longevity of our relationships with our customers and partners in EMEA," Amir Mobayen, senior vice president, EMEA, MSC.Software.
With over 75 customer presentations, the EMEA Conference agenda addressed a wide range of topics relating to VPD application, process, and management. Keynote aerospace presentations from EADS Military Aircraft, EADS-CASA, Airbus, BAe Systems, Snecma, MTU AeroEngines, and Avio, and in automotive from Ford, BMW, Daimler Chrysler, Audi, PSA Peugeot-Citroen, Porsche, GM, Mitsubishi, Nissan, and MagnaSteyr, provided the foundation of the agenda, while additional sessions focused on innovative applications and business processes from mass transportation, machinery, motor-sport, consumer goods, & biomedical industries. The special contributions of a selection of key EMEA customer participants were also recognized in the '2005 Innovation Awards' that were presented during the Conference dinner.
"Participation in the EMEA VPD Conference was an ideal opportunity for Bombardier Transportation to remain close to the business and the technical solutions at MSC. They are very important to the practical reality of our enterprise wide design and manufacturing operation. Furthermore I enjoyed the presentations and discussions, which have given guidance for the next steps in our engineering world." Dr. Tjark Siefkes, senior director advanced technology development and centers of competence, Bombardier Transportation.
Key growth areas and a number of new technology partnerships, for example in the fields of nonlinear simulation, composite materials, and fatigue/durability, were featured in invited presentations and special interest discussion groups. Strategic partnerships with Intel, AlphaSTAR, and Engenious, and significant recent EMEA engagements with customers such as Airbus and Valeo Engine Cooling and were announced to invited members of the Press and industry analysts, whilst the accompanying technology exhibition, with solution partners including IBM, Microsoft, Intel, SGI, HP, AMD and Dassault Systemes, provided a lively central networking environment.
"MSC's VPD Conference in Munich was a very informative and well managed event. It reinforced their new direction as a broad-based VPD solution provider, and the commitment of their new executive team to clarify this direction to the industry," Ed Miller, President, CIMdata, a leading international consulting and research firm.
Full details and all presentations from the EMEA Conference can be found at http://www.mscsoftware.com/emea/vpd2005 . The MSC.Software VPD Conference series will continue with further events in Russia, South Africa, across Asia-Pacific, and in the United States.
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