CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
9 August 2007
Implementation Investments
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) Takes MSC.Software's Path Forward to MD Nastran
MSC.Software announced that Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC), of Okazaki, Japan has adopted MSC.Software's simulation solutions path forward, including a move from point products to MSC MasterKey as well as MD Nastran. By using MSC.Software's simulation solutions, MMC will enjoy faster, more accurate results, increased productivity, improved collaboration, reduced time to market and reduced costs to market.
"Following the lead of European and American automotive manufacturers, Japanese customers are rapidly migrating from point tools to the use of MSC MasterKey as a springboard toward full adoption of MD Nastran and SimEnterprise," reports Christopher St. John, Senior Vice President of APAC Sales for MSC.Software . "MMC is the latest manufacturer to recognize the reduced cost of ownership and more flexible deployment of our solutions and to have taken this important forward step toward consolidation of their structural and motion simulation tools into a single, more flexible environment."
MMC's early experiences with MD Nastran proved to them the value of being able to combine multiple simulation disciplines on a single solver platform; MSC.Software's MD Solutions enable this through the adoption of a single data model for all CAE disciplines. Furthermore, SimXpert and SimDesigner are designed from the outset to support such multi-discipline simulation.
"Our new agreement with MSC.Software provides us with immediate time and cost savings, thanks to simplified administration and broader access to MSC.Software's products," stated Shinji Katsumaru, General Manager of the Digital Engineering Department of MMC. Hirotaka Shiozaki, CAE Manager of the Digital Engineering Department, continued, "We anticipate future savings as MD Nastran allows us to use the same CAE models for multiple applications. We have already seen that we can expand the range of possible simulations using the multi-discipline capability of MD Nastran. This provides efficiency in the short term and also improves accuracy. Looking ahead, we will not be able to meet our objective of simulation driven design without significantly changing what we simulate and how we go about the task. Today we see promise that MD Nastran and SimEnterprise will enable us to reach that objective."
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