INDUSTRY

MSC.Software, the leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD) products including simulation software and services, today announced that groninger Germany, a leading provider of filling and packaging machines for the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, has invested in MSC.Dynamic Designer Motion Professional for Autodesk Inventor. groninger will employ MSC.Dynamic Designer to develop and simulate the performance of new and customized pharmaceutical and cosmetic filling machines. "The implementation of CAD-embedded simulation software is a key initiative within our worldwide customer base, especially within those companies that create complex machinery requiring an intimate understanding of motion dynamics," says Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "To meet this demand, we have developed a broad spectrum of CAD-embedded simulation tools. MSC.Dynamic Designer for Inventor is only one of the many tools in our SimDesigner product family that will help designers better understand their products and answer important questions such as, "Will it work?" and "How long will it last?" "Within our market it is extremely important to be flexible, innovative and fast," said Mr. Volker Groninger, CEO of groninger & co. GmbH. "Our customers expect complex, custom-made products, with which they can do filling, packaging and labeling of different types of packages, including syringes, vials and bottles, both for the cosmetic and pharmaceutical market. Most of our filling machines are custom made or adjusted to the customers needs. Before we used MSC.Dynamic Designer Motion Professional we performed our analyses using the known mathematical and physical methods -- now with MSC.Dynamic Designer we can be more flexible, check more design options, be more precise and get our results faster. We can now make key decisions during the pre-development phase rather than having to wait later in the design cycle. It was important for us to decide for a tool, which is easy to use and learn, has an excellent price-value ratio and is seamlessly integrated in our CAD-system. I have great expectations of the combined use of Inventor and MSC.Dynamic Designer once all of our engineers are trained on it." Seamlessly integrated within Autodesk Inventor and other major CAD-Systems, MSC.Dynamic Designer provides capabilities for motion simulation of 3D models. MSC.Dynamic Designer helps engineers to understand the true dynamic functionality of his designs inside Inventor and other CAD-systems before building and testing physical prototypes.