CIMdata Publishes a New Review of MSC Software’s SimEnterprise Program

ANN ARBOR, Michigan — CIMdata, the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm publishes a new review of MSC Software’s SimEnterprise program. The paper entitled “MSC SimEnterprise: Providing Simulation to the Enterprise” describes MSC Software’s (MSC) overall program for managing and working with complex engineering analyses and their results within a PLM environment. It provides an overall description of the Enterprise Simulation Management (ESM) market as well as CIMdata’s assessment of the entire SimEnterprise program including its components. In addition, it includes comments and assessments from two SimEnterprise users who provide further insight into the value of SimEnterprise.

CIMdata Senior Consultant John MacKrell noted that for many years, the area of simulation and analysis has been largely ignored in terms of its integration into the broader enterprise. It has generally been treated as something of a “black hole” within the overall product development organization. Simulation investments typically have not focused on linking simulation more effectively into the broader enterprise.

“Today, however, new approaches are being developed and implemented in companies worldwide that much more effectively integrate simulation activities into the enterprise and enable the capture and reuse of knowledge gained in this critical area—knowledge that is generally lost in most companies.” explained Mr. MacKrell.

As ESM has become more important to industrial companies, suppliers of technologies and services have worked diligently to provide solutions to the market. Currently, several companies are providing a variety of solutions that fit within the framework of ESM. MSC, in particular, is targeting broad-based offerings.

MSC has developed a set of solutions, called SimEnterprise, that support management of the engineering analysis process within product design. The solutions are intended to help companies expand access to analysis information for people who are not analysts, allowing them to make more informed product design decisions. Another theme of SimEnterprise is that it helps analysis specialists create reusable templates that can then be leveraged by engineers who are not analysis specialists, allowing much earlier evaluations of design viability.

Mr. MacKrell added, “ESM is a relatively new market opportunity and the solutions are evolving rapidly. Solutions released over the past year have been impressive, and even more substantial solutions will become available over the coming months and years as industry gains more experience and ESM matures.”

Copies of “MSC SimEnterprise: Providing Simulation to the Enterprise” are available online at no cost.