Simcenter Amsterdam: making simulation a routine part of design
Simcenter Amsterdam: making simulation a routine part of design Last December I went to Amsterdam to attend Siemens’ Simcenter Symposium. It’s one of my favorite events because it brings together so many different … everythings: auto talks to aero, who...
Quickie: FieldView now part of Vela Software
CFD Just saw the press release: on November 8, 2019, Intelligent Light announced that it had sold the right to develop, sell and support FieldView to Vela Software International, the company that bought Tecplot four years ago. According to the press release, and with...
Just in: Envenio becomes part of JUUL
Now this is interesting. Envenio, which offered cloud based, on-demand, GPU-powered CFD simulation, just sent out an email saying they’ve been acquired by JUUL and will cease independent operations at the end of December. Envenio’s EXN/Aero, is a...
Quickie: Altair nabs ElectroFlo CFD for electronics cooling
Altair just announced that it has acquired TES International’s technology and intellectual property and hired founder Ben Zandi to lead its thermal solutions software development efforts. Dr. Zandi founded TES to address electronics cooling and today (yesterday?) the...
Quickie: DS acquiring Exa for $400 million
Well, well, well. Dassault Systèmes (DS) and Exa Corporation announced early this morning that DS is acquiring Exa for $24.25 per share, or around $400 million. You may recall that Exa is a publicly traded company in the US, making the PowerFLOW CFD suite based on the...
ANSYS acquires CEI to boost post-processing with EnSight
ANSYS has announced that it has acquired Computational Engineering International, Inc. (CEI), makers of EnSight, a nifty post-processor for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulations. As you might be aware, simulations result in...
MSC snaps up SC/Tetra’s parent company
While we were all off sipping warm beverages, MSC Software made what was probably the last PLMish deal of 2016 when it acquired Software Cradle, makers of the SC/Tetra CFD software. On December 15, according to Asian media outlets and confirmed on the Cradle website,...
Q&A Friday: CD-adapco and CAE at the Olympics
It’s a gorgeous summer day here in New England — a perfect time for a little A to some of the Qs that have come in to the Schnitger Corp. website: Who is the CEO of CD-adapco? Bob Ryan has been the CEO of CD-adapco since June. You may know Mr. Ryan from...
