MSC/AMS Offers Automotive Engineers Significant Improvements in Productivity
1 October 1998
Latest Release of MSC/AMS Offers Automotive Engineers Significant Improvements in Productivity; New Version Complements and Enhances Automotive-Design Processes and Workflow
LOS ANGELES--Oct. 1, 1998--The MacNeal Schwendler Corp. (MSC) Thursday announced Version 2.0 of MSC/AMS (Automotive Modeling System).
The announcement was made at both the Autofact trade show in Detroit and the VDI Congress in Wurzburg, Germany. MSC/AMS is a pre- and postprocessing system for finite element analysis (FEA), created specifically for the automotive industry. Developed and extended to address key customer issues and process bottlenecks, the new version offers engineers significant improvements in productivity.
The increase in engineering productivity for customers arises from MSC's integrated approach, bringing together a number of key technologies to directly support automotive-design processes and workflow. MSC/AMS users benefit directly from MSC's CAD geometry access, which has been proven in industrial applications worldwide.
Users can also easily and rapidly link CAE model information with the data necessary for complete vehicle management in most PDM systems.
Early use of mechanical computer-aided engineering (MCAE) is becoming crucial to automotive companies in reducing time from concept to delivery. In addition to the wide range of MSC technology for automated model generation, MSC/AMS has additional modeling tools to help users rapidly develop analysis models using minimal geometry available at early design stages.
The modeling functionality in MSC/AMS is particularly well suited for engineers who focus on automotive vehicle engineering applications. The new model data structure allows engineers to manage data in a manner consistent with their company's product-development methodology.
Users can create geometry with information from a model and then re-mesh or redesign different vehicle components or subsystems, while still making efficient use of MSC/NASTRAN data files.
MSC/AMS provides significant productivity gains compared with conventional manual meshing techniques. The user interface allows new users to rapidly become productive, while extending the power and flexibility of MSC/PATRAN. MSC/AMS incorporates the features of MSC/PATRAN within a customized, consistent interface focused on automotive-modeling practices and data-management needs.
This latest version also has the capability of using existing MSC/PATRAN databases, and offering direct access to MSC/NASTRAN results databases. This helps guarantee the value of a user's design information and is an important part of a comprehensive re-usability strategy.
"Our aim is to deliver solutions that are seen to directly benefit our customers business," said Ruediger Ott, director of business development for MSC's Automotive Group. "We feel that whenever mechanical computer-aided engineering is considered by any automotive company, their first thought should be MSC."
The MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. is the world's leading supplier of MCAE solutions. MSC provides software, services, and strategies by partnering with customers to increase the performance of their structural designs.
MSC's solutions have played a key role in the design of virtually every major automobile, aircraft, and space vehicle developed in the past decade. MSC solutions are provided by offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. For more information, visit the MSC Web site at: www.macsch.com.
NOTE: NASTRAN is a registered trademark of NASA. MSC, MSC/, MSC/DYTRAN, PATRAN, MSC/PATRAN, MSC/MVISION and ARIES are registered trademarks of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. MSC/NASTRAN, MSC/FATIGUE, MSC/FEA and MSC/AMS are trademarks of The MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their registered owners.