MSC SimXpert Improves Collaboration in the Digital Factory to Accelerate Time to Market for Brunel's Automotive Division: MSC.Software Corp., the leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions and services, today announced that Brunel GmbH, a Germany-based provider of technology and management consulting, has selected SimXpert to deliver faster, more accurate and more cost-efficient results to customers within the automotive and aerospace industry. With SimXpert, Brunel will be able to leverage a fully integrated, multidiscipline simulation environment for mechanical simulation for its automotive and aerospace customers. Auto manufacturing is one of the most significant industries to the German economy and German automakers face fierce global competition, making technical innovation and cost efficiency of critical importance. In the face of the increasing complexity of automobile design and the processes required to build them, manufacturers have reduced development time by using SimXpert, which enables shared simulation data across design teams. In order to reduce development time and enable their engineers to test multiple variables simultaneously in a collaborative environment, Brunel selected SimXpert. "Brunel has a long history of providing the most innovative technical consulting in the industry. We selected SimXpert because we want to bring our customers the greatest value and most advanced technology on the market," said Carsten Siebeneich, general manager of Brunel in Germany. "MSC.Software is the leader in the multidiscipline simulation space, so choosing them made perfect sense for our growing practice." "The partnership between Brunel's world-class domain expertise and MSC.Software's multidiscipline simulation technology is the ultimate win for customers," said Amir Mobayen, Senior Vice President, EMEA for MSC.Software. "We are proud to work with Brunel to deliver the best-of-breed solutions to customers within the German automotive industry."