Simulation Data, Processes Supported Across Enterprise, Supply Chain

By DE Editors

MSC.Software Corp. (Santa Ana, CA) today announced SimManagerEnterprise at an early morning press conference held at its annual VPDconference in Huntington Beach, California. DE attended byteleconference. At the same press conference, the company announcedtoday is a new strategic alliance between it and IBM. Click here for that announcement.

SimManager Enterprise, the company says, lets organizations leveragetheir engineering processes throughout their disbursed enterprise,which, in turn, speeds up design and development. MSC.Softwaredescribed SimManager Enterprise as providing functionality that allowsorganizations to create, manage, and re-use simulation dataefficiently. Spokespersons added that SimManager Enterprise providesthe means for companies to control, share, and extend engineering dataand the processes related to their products both internally andexternally into the supply chain.

SimManager Enterprise is part of SimEnterprise, an enterprisesimulation platform. SimEnterprise provides the infrastructure andfunctionality that engineering teams can use to access and work withdata as well as share simulation data across the extended enterprise.Additionally, SimEnterprise has capabilities for collaboration andmanaging simulation and simulation-based design information.

SimManager Enterprise is said to offer functionality to bringsimulation data under control, irrespective of development platform orlocation. For example, it has tools to locate data for re-use data andpublish data. It also has the ability to capture simulation processesand automate those processes using best-practices approach.
 
SimManager Enterprise uses a thin-client architecture that facilitatescommunication of simulation data throughout the enterprise and supplychain. Since it has an open-systems approach to integration, it deployseasily with other enterprise systems such as PLM and ERP.

For more information on SimManager Enterprise, click here.

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