Siemens PLM Software and Vistagy Enhance Partnership

By DE Editors

Siemens PLM Software and VISTAGY, Inc. have announced an significant upgrade and long-term extension to their partnership designed to meet the composite engineering and PLM needs of their customers. The new agreement, announced at the AERO INDIA 2011 international air show, is designed to meet market demand with an end-to-end composites engineering solution based on Siemens PLM Software’s NX software computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis solution and VISTAGY’s FiberSIM software for composites engineering.

The agreement enables the companies to support the needs of customers across the PLM space, from design to manufacturing, by providing for increased levels of integration between FiberSIM, NX and other Siemens PLM Software solutions. Additional provisions for joint sales and marketing activity also facilitate awareness, distribution and support of the integrated offering.

“As one of the most important and fastest growing areas of product development, the discipline of composite engineering has become vital to industries such as aerospace, automotive, marine and the rapidly developing field of wind energy,” says Dick Slansky, senior analyst for PLM, ARC Advisory Group. “The combination of Siemens PLM Software’s NX and VISTAGY’s FiberSIM creates a strong solution for composite design, analysis and manufacturing capabilities within the PLM process and establishes a complete solution that will provide their customers with the tools they need for designing with composite materials.”

The continuing rise in the use of composite materials in products, such as aircraft jet engines, automobiles, marine products and wind turbine blades, is a result of their impressive and increasing strength to weight ratio. Lighter weight equates to better efficiency in a wide variety of areas, including energy usage, performance and cost control. The development and manufacturability of composite materials has remained a highly specialized area.

“Our enhanced agreement and strong partnership with Siemens PLM Software enables both companies to increase the value we create for our customers,” says Steve Luby, president and CEO of VISTAGY. “With FiberSIM, customers address the entire composites engineering process, from conception, laminate definition and ply creation through simulation, documentation and manufacturing. By combining that unique capability with the power and functional breadth of NX, as well as the highly respected PLM credentials of Siemens PLM Software, we are extending the ability of both organizations to deliver the benefits of an integrated composite engineering solution to all the industries we serve.”

For more information, visit Siemens PLM Software and VISTAGY, Inc.

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