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Simulate More Productively with SimManager R3

SimManager R3 helps engineering and manufacturing companies to simulate more collaboratively and more productively by managing all of their simulation content, methods, and processes. These capabilities will help end-users to spend less time looking for the information they need to do their jobs, automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks, and ultimately get more consistent and reliable results. Engineering organizations are able evaluate more design alternatives without increasing time or resource requirements, leading to innovative product designs and lasting competitive advantage.

With the release of SimManager R3, MSC Software introduces two product configurations designed to scale from engineering workgroups to full extended product development enterprises.

Introducing SimManager Workgroup Edition R3
Simulation Content Management Delivered, Installed, Working... in matter of hours!
Most product development teams today are facing an explosion of data and content related to simulation. This content comes from a wide range of applications and CAE tools, is in many different formats, and is stored on individual desktop machines, shared drives, servers, in a completely unmanaged fashion. Teams struggle to find and use the information they need, when they need it, and have no means to document and reuse the models and results that they produce. SimManager Workgroup Edition is an out-of-the-box solution designed to meet the needs of workgroups or project teams faced with these challenges.

SimManager Workgroup Edition requires no configuration or customization, and can be deployed in matter of hours. It's also simple to use and requires no changes to your CAE tools, methods, or processes.

SimManager Workgroup Edition immediately improves operational productivity by enabling project teams to collaborate more effectively and eliminate time wasted searching for the information and data they need to do their jobs. Macros, scripts, session files and other "best practice methods" can be deployed consistently throughout your teams, current models and results can be shared in real-time, and a documented audit trail for all simulation content is created and maintained by SimManager Workgroup Edition. And, as your simulation requirements grow, you can easily upgrade to SimManager Enterprise Edition to add configurable process management and automation.

Announcing SimManager Enterprise Edition R3
Next Generation of World's Only Proven, Scalable Solution for Enterprise Simulation Management
Product manufacturers have struggled to replace physical prototypes and tests with their virtual equivalents because simulation results are not obtained fast enough, or considered to be reliable enough to be used in making design decisions. Leading companies in automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, electronics, consumer goods, and other industries have adopted SimManager Enterprise to enable standardization of best practices and automate manually intensive CAE tasks, and are enjoying the benefits of timely, consistent, and accurate results that are fully auditable for quality and reliability.

SimManager Enterprise R3 improves upon the world's only proven and scalable solution for managing and automating simulation with improved performance and scalability, a new and improved user experience, and a new authoring environment for building, managing, and automating simulation processes. Product manufacturers will benefit from these capabilities with more rapidly deployed enterprise simulation management systems, increased ease-of-use and efficiency for users, and solutions that can support thousands of users running hundreds of simulations per day across globally distributed working environments. SimManager Enterprise also provides a seamless upgrade path for users ready to add process management and automation capabilities to their SimManager Workgroup implementations.

Simulation Enabling the Engineering Business

Being able to make game changing innovations requires experimenting with more design possibilities without increasing cost, time and resources. Simulation has long promised a way to replace slow and expensive physical prototypes and tests with virtual equivalents that can be modified easily, tested fast, and provide more product performance insight. Isolation of simulation information to specialists, lack of process quality and consistency, and excess time spent on low value, repetitive tasks in modeling and analysis has up to now kept the promise from being fulfilled. SimManager enables customers to maximize the power of their simulation knowledge and leverage it to simulate more - more productively, more efficiently, and more reliably.

Improved Simulation Quality
SimManager enables continuous process improvement that improves simulation quality and consistency. By using SimManager users can create, manage, and automate the use of templates and other methods within a simulation environment that is auditable and managed; assuring that best practices are applied consistently so you can rely on simulation results and eliminate physical prototypes.

Maximized Productivity
By automating simulation methods and processes to reduce repetitive, manually intensive work and by managing access to all simulation content across various disciplines, organizational boundaries, and geographies, SimManager allows designers, analysts, and managers working in workgroups or across the extended enterprise work together efficiently.

Leveraged CAE Investments
SimManager's open framework is carefully designed to protect your existing simulation investments and support not only MSC applications but also any third party or in-house application or tool. With its SimManager Enterprise Connect technology powered by PROSTEP OpenPDM, SimManager provides the optimal and robust solution to meet your enterprise integration needs.

Rapid Business Results
SimManager delivers proven scalability and time-to-value for global product development leaders in the automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, consumer goods, electronics, and other industries. SimManager has been successfully deployed on many product development programs, for various engineering disciplines across many industries.

Industry's Only Proven Solution for Open, Scalable Simulation
With its proven ability to manage hundreds of simulations per day at major companies in the automotive and aerospace industries, SimManager provides managed access to over millions of simulation data objects leveraging information from your organization's PLM systems-of-choice, HPC infrastructure and CAE applications and provide an audit trail for each one that documents their pedigree and lifecycle.

An End-to-End Solution for Enterprise Simulation Data Management

Simulation Content and Process Management

The key to innovating more and using simulation to strategic advantage is through managed content and processes. SimManager's content management solution enables companies to gain control over all simulation related content including simulation methods and processes, inputs to these processes, outputs from these processes, as well as the information (meta-data) that describes these processes and resources.

Simulation Content Management

• Manages all types of content that is related to simulation (i.e. methods, templates, processes, inputs, outputs and standards used) - not just simulation models or files
• Comprehensive Simulation/CAE data model
• Object lifecycle management
• Secure, role based access control
• Highly configurable UI allowing personalization of views and presenting data in context of simulation revealing critical information (how, who, when, why)
• Powerful data mining capability that taps into simulation metadata allowing users to quickly find the information they need

Process Management & Automation

• Process Builder provides an easy-to-use graphical environment that allows encapsulation of applications, methods, templates and processes to embed company specific simulation workflow without programming expertise.
• Process version control
• Automatic job queuing and submission
• Process chaining/augmentation
• Automatic process data capture (input and output)
• Automated and configurable reporting
• Batch execution

CAE Assembly Management

• Together with SimXpert, SimManager enables engineers to track evolving simulation assembly models over the lifecycle of a product development project
• SimManager maintains model and assembly pedigree and shows how functional performance has driven design decisions
• Using OpenPDM® technology from PROSTEP-AG, SimManager unites the design and analysis communities to ensure that analysts are always working with current design geometry, and that designers have visibility into design validation reports or change recommendations based upon simulation

Systems Engineering Support

• Configurable dashboards
• Comparison of results to targets

Open Framework for PLM Integration

• Enterprise operability (load balancing, failover, multi-site deployment) and unique performance and scalability demands of the simulation domain
• Workgroup to Enterprise scalability
• Native integration with SimEnterprise Solutions (SimXpert, SimDesigner, Adams, Patran, EASY5)
• Web application server integration (WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, WebLogic)
• Relational Database integration (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server)
• File management or storage integration (Tivoli, NAS, SAN, HSM)
• Integration with non-MSC applications (any third-party CAE commercial, HPC, RMS, ERP)
• Enterprise Connect powered by PROSTEP OpenPDM (Windchill, Teamcenter, ENOVIA SmarTeam etc.)