Partnership Brings the Benefits of Conceptual Engineering to Joint Customers. Comet Solutions, Inc., the innovator in conceptual simulation engineering, has announced its partnership with Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services. Comet will provide capability for customers to better automate their design analysis processes and drive product development with engineering intent by the use of highly flexible abstract modeling and custom process simulation templates in an authoring-tool neutral environment for advanced systems engineering and conceptual design analysis. “This partnership will provide significant value to Siemens PLM Software and Comet customers,” said Dan Meyer, president, Comet Solutions. “Siemens PLM Software is a long-term innovator and leader in CAE and their customers are at the forefront of CAE use. We are pleased to provide complementary capabilities that extend the range of conceptual design studies and enable early multi-physics simulation that Siemens PLM Software customers can perform in an NX-centered environment.” “Comet enables customers to better leverage their existing advanced design, simulation and data management applications – such as those offered by Siemens PLM Software – including their in-house simulation software. By virtue of a unique multi-disciplinary data architecture, Comet enables design engineers as well as CAE analysts to perform complex multi-physics simulation processes through templates that can address optics, thermal, CFD, structural and systems engineering requirements with adaptors to existing commercial CAE software,” said Malcolm Panthaki, founder and chief technology officer of Comet Solutions. In addition to the standard results post-processing and reporting tools available in CAE authoring tools such as the NX Advanced Simulation solution from Siemens PLM Software, Comet’s project dashboard provides a flexible, summary view of all the simulation data, easily visible to any level within the organization. “The engineering-oriented dashboard concisely displays how a design meets product and simulation requirements, regardless of the underlying CAD and CAE tools used, and complements the type of business reporting tools available in PLM systems such as Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter portfolio,” adds Mr. Panthaki. “Because Siemens PLM Software is committed to open systems and an open business model, we encourage the integration of third-party software tools that extend an open value proposition to our customers,” said Chris Kelley, vice president, Partner & Platform Marketing, Siemens PLM Software. “As a tool-neutral conceptual simulation environment, Comet Solutions fulfills that requirement by embracing and extending the current systems engineering, digital simulation and data management capabilities in Teamcenter, NX and several other Siemens PLM Software solutions such as I-deas, NX Nastran, Solid Edge and Femap.”