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News Release from: Vistagy
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 22 March 2006
Alliance aids product development
Organisations share technology and engineering expertise to build applications that will help engineers make more accurate, informed decisions early in product development.
Vistagy, a developer of engineering software for commercial CAD, PDM and PLM systems, has formed an alliance with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for E-Design The organisations are sharing technology and engineering expertise to build applications that will help engineers make more accurate, informed decisions early in product development
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Center for E-Design serves as a national centre for design excellence through the use of information technology.
Its goal is to research, develop and test technologies that support virtualisation and enable a systems-engineering approach to design.
Vistagy has contributed its Encaptar software and is working with Center for E-Design members, including the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, to develop specialised engineering applications.
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These applications will use intelligent descriptions of product designs and analysis models to provide engineers automatically with appropriate and accurate feedback from the analyses.
The design applications will be deployable on multiple commercial CAD platforms and will access analyses using web services, eliminating the need for every analysis tool to be available on each engineer's desktop.
As a result, engineers will be able to make accurate, informed design decisions early in the design process, leading to better products that are developed faster.
"Both Vistagy and the Center for E-Design agree that accurate information and design knowledge are the lifeblood of any manufacturing organisation", said Steve Luby, President and CEO of Vistagy.
"We've joined forces to find ways of helping engineers use IT systems to share and apply that knowledge earlier in the product development process for more innovative, cutting-edge product design and reduced cycle times".
Ian Grosse, Director of the intelligent modelling, analysis and design laboratory at the University of Massachusetts and Co-Director of the NSF Center for E-Design, said: "Today's CAD systems do not support efficient multi-disciplinary analysis during the design processes, making it difficult to develop innovative products and employ new materials and processes".
"To revolutionise the way products are conceived, designed and realised, we've teamed up with companies such as Vistagy as part of the Center for E-Design to create technologies, applications and methodologies that will drive product development achievements across many industries".
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