MSC Software

MSC.Software

Type	Public
Founded	1963
Headquarters	Santa Ana, California
Key people	Dominic Gallello, CEO; Jim Johnson, CFO
Industry	Computer Aided Engineering
Products	Patran MSC Nastran Marc Adams Dytran SimXpert SimManager Easy5
Revenue	$254.4 million USD (2008)
Employees	990
Website	MSC.Software

Example of MSC.Nastran analysis result

MSC.Software Corporation was formed in 1963. The company developed its first structural analysis software called SADSAM (Structural Analysis by Digital Simulation of Analog Methods) at that time, and was deeply involved in the early efforts of the aerospace industry to improve early finite element analysis technology. A key milestone was responding to a 1965 RFP from the North American Space Agency (NASA) for a General Purpose Structural Analysis program that would eventually become Nastran (NASA Structural Analysis). MSC was awarded the original contract from NASA to commercialize Nastran despite fierce competition from many giants in the aerospace industry. The company subsequently pioneered many of the technologies that are now relied upon by industry to analyze and predict stress and strain, vibration & dynamics, acoustics, and thermal analysis in its flagship product, MSC Nastran.

Over the course of its history, MSC has developed or acquired many other well known CAE applications including Patran, Adams, Marc, Dytran, SimDesigner, SimManager, EASY5, MSC Sinda, and Fluid Connection. The MSC product portfolio includes linear and nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA), multibody dynamics, control systems, and many other applications. MSC is committed to the continuing development of new CAE tools and technology in these products as well as in new products including MD Nastran, MD Adams, and SimXpert, that integrate the technologies from standalone CAE tools into unified multidiscipline solvers and user environments. These “next generation” products enable engineers to improve the reliability and accuracy of their virtual prototypes by including multiphysics and multidiscipline interactions.

MSC is also the CAE industry’s market leader in extending simulation to the engineering enterprise. MSC offers the only “simulation data management” (SDM) platform in the world that has been successfully deployed in industries including automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, electronics, and more.

MSC.Software’s products, services, and people are today used in many industries including:

• Aerospace & Defense
• Automotive & Transportation
• Agricultural Equipment
• Heavy machinery
• Medical Devices
• Oil & gas
• Nuclear
• Renewable energy
• Consumer products
• Packaging
• Electronics
• Shipbuilding
• Civil Engineering

Headquartered in Santa Ana, California, MSC.Software employs approximately 990 people in 23 countries.

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