Liga Systems’ NitroSIM™ Is Named Finalist In The Design Verification Tools Category For The Prestigious 2007 DesignVision Awards Breakthrough (9737)
Drop-In Hybrid Simulator Boosts Desktop and Compute Farm Server Simulation Speed by 10 to 100 Times

Auburn Hills, Mich.'s Samsung Heavy Industries Uses DELMIA Digital Technology for Futuristic Digital Shipbuilding Plant (6418)
Simulation-Based Manufacturing (SBM) Will Strengthen Shipbuilder's Competitive Edge in the Manufacturing Industry

Physical Prototypes: A Necessary Step or Needless Bottleneck? (14291)
Building and testing physical prototypes — an expensive, time-consuming task in traditional product development — is one area that manufacturers are critically examining to reduce overall design costs and speed time to market. Physical prototyping can be a major bottleneck, slowing down the product development process and seriously constraining the number of design alternatives that can be examined.

ACS Motion Control Develops The First Configurable Machine And Motion Control Solution for OEMs (14249)
ACS Motion Control, an international manufacturer of advanced multi-axis motion controllers, machine control systems and integrated control modules, has developed a rack-based modular control system that offers the flexibility to control up to eight rack servo drives and 64 distributed axes via CANopen.

Dassault Systèmes Launches DELMIA PLM Express Dedicated Solutions for Small and Medium-sized Manufacturers (12889)
Virtual Commissioning solutions allow control engineers to debug PLC code weeks before the integration of the physical equipment occurs on the shop floor, significantly reducing the ramp-up time of manufacturing systems and costs for maintenance operations. By catching PLC programming errors through simulation, control engineers also reduce the risk of damage to physical factory equipment.

Waltham, Mass.' VISTAGY and ESI Group Expand Partnership to Provide Complete Structural Analysis Simulation Process for Composites (12682)
The partnership provides aerospace and automotive manufacturers with the most complete virtual 3D engineering environment for designing and analyzing products made of advanced composite materials. As a result of the agreement, composite product manufacturers will accelerate their development cycles while greatly reducing prototypes and ensuring product accuracy.

Automated Surface Contact Generation (ASCG) Provides Major Improvement for FEA Users Modeling Assemblies (12164)
NEi develops, sells, and supports NEi Nastran engineering analysis and simulation software worldwide for companies in aerospace, automotive, maritime, military, offshore, medical, electronics, and consumer products to speed up product development, reduce test and prototyping cost, insure quality, and optimize designs through virtual testing of structures with linear and nonlinear static, dynamic, and thermal loads.

Baltimore's GSE Systems Announces Strategic Partnership with SINOPEC Ningbo Engineering Company in China (12057)
The first multi-million dollar project under this strategic partnership, that GSE has been authorized to commence, is at SINOPEC's state of the art Fujian Refinery. Specifically, SNEC and GSE will be responsible for the development of a simulator, including high fidelity models, for the Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Plant.

Explaining The Virtues Of Virtual Manufacturing: Companies can benefit from virtual manufacturing in three primary ways: faster market response times, lower production and equipment costs, and improved quality. (12033)
In the future, Web-based collaboration tools will emerge across the organization, enabling a common, company-wide simulation environment. Manufacturers establishing consistent data models and sharing can forge a sustainable competitive advantage.

PrestoSIM Receives FAA Approval for Beechcraft King Air Simulator (11779)
Approval allows PrestoSim to train pilots on one of the most popular airplanes ever built