CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
3 April 2007
Implementation Investments
Alenia Aeronautica Selects MSC.SimManager to Drive Enterprise Business Transformation
MSC.Software has announced that Alenia Aeronautica has selected its enterprise simulation management solution, SimManager to drive significant process transformation for the company's Alenia Networked Enterprise Transformation (ALENET) initiative.
ALENET is a multi-year business transformation initiative, designed to deliver benefits in standardization, streamlining, and innovation to Alenia companies, suppliers, partners, and customers worldwide. Promoting an extended and integrated vision of the PLM and simulation environment, the ALENET objectives focus on improving engineering lifecycle efficiency, and include strategies for the improved integration of suppliers and partners, harmonization of technologies and processes, and the capture, management, and sharing of inherent process and intellectual property enterprise-wide.
SimManager, a component of SimEnterprise, is MSC.Software's enterprise simulation data and process management solution, and has been selected as a key component to the ALENET project.
The deployment of SimManager across the Alenia organization is central to the process for simulation / virtual test data management and process automation, establishing a standardized simulation and testing knowledge database, and helping to rationalize in-house and legacy technology onto a common integrated environment.
"Consistent with the ongoing transformation in the Aerospace & Defense sector, Alenia Aeronautica is undergoing radical changes in its core processes - a genuine business transformation to an extended virtual enterprise," said Alessandro Franzoni, chief technical officer, Alenia Aeronautica.
"SimManager enables consolidated standards for simulation technology and process, and creates an enterprise wide collaborative knowledge management engineering environment. This is a critical factor in driving the shift from vertical silos to a growing interdependence - a transverse approach to lifecycle integration that will positively impact top & bottom lines."
"We're leveraging our heritage in engineering analysis with the scalability of the embedded IBM products in SimManager to provide a better product for our enterprise customers and lead the enterprise simulation movement from isolated to integrated solutions", said Amir Mobayen, senior vice president, EMEA Operations, MSC.Software. "The ALENET project is an exciting example of how to harmonize, manage, and collaboratively extend engineering lifecycle processes across the enterprise including partners and suppliers and provides a strong testament to the value of the MSC.Software and IBM Alliance."
SimManager provides organizations with the ability to work more efficiently, react more quickly, and to differentiate themselves and their products from the competition," said Bill Weyand, chief executive officer, MSC.Software. "Alenia recognizes this innovation and has chosen MSC.Software as their enterprise simulation partner."
More information on SimManager and SimEnterprise can be found at http://www.mscsoftware.com/ or https://cpd-associates.com/download/index.cfm?download=simmanagermsc&company=
About Alenia Aeronautica
Alenia Aeronautica, a subsidiary of Finmeccanica, is a leading aerospace organization, with interests in the design and production and support of aircraft and aero-structures for a wide range of commercial and military applications. A key partner of the major aerospace groups, Alenia is involved with projects from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, and BAE Systems, and is one of the military partner companies of the Eurofighter and Panavia Tornado consortia.
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