AUDI AG in World’s Largest Installation of MSC.Software’s SimManager

MSC.Software have announced that the automotive manufacturer AUDI AG has used MSC.Software’s SimManager Enterprise simulation management environmentin their full-scale production. According to MSC, the system of Audi represents the largest global installation of SimManager Enterprise to date, helping multiple engineering groups within Audi as well as their supplier community to accelerate the vehicle development process of Audi and improve their insight into system level functional performance.

MSC also claims that SimManager Enterprise manages currently more than 180,000 simulations, with up to 850 new simulations created per day and enables collaboration amongst 400 internal and external users on all new vehicle multi-discipline programs, for Crash, Pedestrian Safety, Occupant Safety, Head Impact and NVH engineering disciplines. The system provides access to currently over 20 million simulation content objects and provides an audit trail for each one that documents how they were created.

“We have adopted MSC.Software’s enterprise solutions including SimManager because the competitive advantage of simulation process management is clear,” said Dr. Michael Holzner of Audi. “With SimManager, we manage and automate our simulation processes and methods, allowing us to integrate functional performance information earlier on in the design process. The results show that we increase the through put of simulations by 35% with the same amount of people.”