VW chooses MSC, Software’s MD Nastran

Volkswagen joins the growing number of European automotive manufacturers to realize the significant technological and financial benefits of implementing MSC.Software’s MD Nastran

MSC.Software, the leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions including simulation software and services, today announced that German development sites of one of the leading European automotive manufacturers, Volkswagen, have begun implementation of MSC.Software’s multi-disciplinary solution, MD Nastran in their simulation environment.

The deployment of MD Nastran will create a fully harmonized simulation nvironment for Volkswagen that extends from the European headquarters in olfsburg, to other German development sites in Kassel and Braunschweig.

Volkswagen has enjoyed a long-standing development relationship with SC.Software and chose MD Nastran as the path forward from their currently eployed MSC.Software solutions including Adams, SimDesigner and the custom simulation data management environment CAE-Bench. By combining the core functionality of MSC Nastran, Marc and Adams, MD Nastran allows anufacturing customers to address a broad set of multi-disciplinary ngineering applications with higher accuracy and more reliable performance redictions.

Integrated solution technology was a key factor in the Volkswagen decision, with routine analysis applications in statics and dynamics, also being extended to nonlinear standard load-cases in automotive development. Furthermore, as Volkswagen realized, an enterprise environment deployed across a number of production sites extends the pure technology benefits onto a much wider commercial scale.

“MD Nastran provides Volkswagen with the right combination of unctionality and business value,” said Dr. Malte Lewerenz, Manager of imulation for Volkwagen AG. “By using MD Nastran, Volkswagen will not only armonize the simulation environments at our German development sites, but ill provide our engineers with the technology potential for future process nnovations and optimization.”

“Since its introduction in 2006, the acceptance of MD Nastran has xtended well beyond the realm of the early adopters and multi-discipline imulation is rapidly becoming a cornerstone technology in automotive OEMs nd their suppliers throughout Europe,” said Amir Mobayen, senior vice resident, MSC.Software EMEA operations. “More and more of these companies are recognizing that the enterprise simulation capabilities of MD Nastran provide technology and business benefits to enhance their capacity for nnovation and as well as their competitive edge.”
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