Itasca Consulting Acquires Simulation Works

By DE Editors

Itasca Consulting Group has purchased Simulation Works. Based in St. Paul, Minn., Simulation Works designs and develops the KUBRIX software used by design engineers and researchers in the automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, biomedical, petroleum and electronics industries to automate what the company calls "the more human-intensive and costly aspects of computer-aided engineering."

The purchase of Simulation Works will integrate KUBRIX software into Itasca products and services. Itasca is a global, employee-owned, geotechnical consulting company and software developer for the geomechanics, hydrogeological and microseismics communities.

"We've distributed KUBRIX to the geotechnical community for the past seven years and this purchase will allow us to fully integrate the software into our engineering services and products," said Itasca general manager Will Pettitt. "These new capabilities will offer significant benefits to our clients in the mining, oil and gas, power generation and civil engineering industries, and promote expansion into new markets where KUBRIX is already established."

KUBRIX is an automatic grid generator (hexahedral, octree and hybrid tet-hex techniques) used in conjunction with CAD software to produce computer models.

For more information, visit Itasca Consulting Group.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.