Manufacturing Industry
Build strategies with FEA simulation: leading manufactures compete with the simulation capability of finite element analysis. (Emerging Technologies).( )
Industry Week, December, 2002 by Teresko, John
ALL THE VENDORS OF FINITE ELEMENT analysis (FEA) software would agree that choosing a particular FEA package is a major decision for an engineering department. Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen Inc., now renamed Abaqus Inc., after its major brand, offers the typical reason: "FEA is at the heart of a manufacturing firm's MCAE activities."
Pawtucket, R.I.-based Abaqus is right--and wrong. And so are competitors such as Ansys Inc., Canonsburg, Pa.
Both firms seem hesitant to leverage the new, growing significance of FEA solutions at some of their major customers. If both vendors would look beyond the horizon of their customer's engineering departments, they would discover that FEA software is at the root of competitive strategies of firms such as General...
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