Fiat Group Extends Worldwide Corporate Agreement With MSC.Software

MSC.Software Corp. , the leading global provider of simulation software and services today announced that Turin, Italy-based Fiat Group has signed a three year renewal of their worldwide corporate agreement with MSC.Software. With this corporate agreement, Fiat companies including FIAT Auto, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati, Centro Ricerche Fiat, COMAU, IVECO, Case New Holland, Irisbus, ELASIS and Magneti Marelli will extend and promote the use of MSC.Software products in all of their product line engineering centers, which includes compact cars, sports cars, Formula 1 racing cars, trucks, buses and automotive components. Fiat's investment includes all of the products within MSC.Software's SimOffice software portfolio and is enabled through the MSC.MasterKey Licensing System, which gives Fiat engineers flexible access to MSC.Software's powerful simulation software portfolio. "One of MSC.Software's most important initiatives is to ensure that our technology and service offerings meet the specific needs of our strategic customers like the FIAT group of companies," said Amir Mobayen, senior vice president, EMEA operations, MSC.Software. "We are very pleased that FIAT has chosen to expand their relationship with us and to take advantage of the MSC.MasterKey Licensing system as a vehicle to employ the SimOffice product line."