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Expanded Licensing Agreement Enables Streamlined Product Development: MSC.Software today announced an agreement with Honda R&D Automobile Development center in which Honda adopted MSC.Software's MD Solutions (which include MD Nastran, MD Adams and MD Patran). Honda is renowned for their quality products that are enjoyed by consumers around the world. This licensing agreement offers the car company the capability of further streamlined global product development. "Choosing MD Solutions is significant validation that MSC.Software's large, enterprise customers see the benefit of using one, best-in-class platform instead of multiple, disparate solutions to increase engineering productivity," said Bill Weyand, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, MSC.Software Corporation. "We will continue to provide enterprises with a simple, fast path forward to broad deployment on a common platform, which can result in substantial time savings through: efficient use of an enterprise simulation data model, enhanced collaboration across product development organizations and streamlined simulation." With MD Solutions, a manufacturer can provide its development engineers with flexible, shared access to a broad set of MSC.Software's simulations solutions, including structural and thermal simulation, motion and kinematics, control systems modeling and more. "Companies continue to build and test physical prototypes for many reasons, including meeting regulatory requirements. Testing physical prototypes also addresses the complex interactions of behavior that occur in the real world. In contrast, much of the virtual prototyping and testing today addresses only specific aspects of performance and misses important dependencies when different software tools are used for different applications," said Reza Sadeghi, Chief Technologist, MSC.Software Corporation. "Our MD Solutions eliminate the need for multiple point solutions and provide Honda R&D with a best-in-class solution platform to build more complete virtual prototypes -- with more real-world results."