Bringing it all together, the power of integration

Jean-Claude Ercolanelli
Vice President, Product Management, CD-adapco

You will be hearing a lot about integration in the coming months; we finished 2007 with releases of all our major products in a frantic three week period, together these form a truly integrated toolkit for the solution of the most difficult engineering problems that your industry can throw at you.

Firstly STAR-CCM+ version 2.10 was released; we here at CD-adapco believe that it’s single integrated environment really is the future of CAE analysis with class leading meshing, visualisation and solver technology wrapped up in an intuitive, yet extremely powerful tool. We are all excited about what the future holds for STAR-CCM+ with 2008 promising yet more groundbreaking developments in this rapidly maturing product that provides flexibility, accuracy and increased productivity.

We also launched version 4.14 of the STAR-CAD Series, which continued its tradition of empowering Design and Professional engineers to undertake flow and thermal analyses directly within their company’s chosen CAD environment. The integration of STAR-CCM+ technology into industry proven CAD and PLM environments is allowing CFD to be used throughout the design process leading to unrivaled levels of CAE integration from prototype to production.

Last, but certainly not least, came the latest version of STAR-CD, 4.04, the largest and most important piece in our integration strategy. With an established reputation for versatility and unrivalled efficiency to tackle problems involving multi-physics phenomena, version 4.04 continues the integration theme with extended flow, thermal and stress capabilities, combined with the latest meshing technology seen in STAR-CCM+. More than just a CFD code, STAR-CD is an integrated CAE platform for performing powerful multi-physics simulations.

The past year has certainly been a crucial one from our perspective, requiring an integrated effort across our entire organization to deliver best-in-class CAE tools to you, our users. In a rapidly changing CAE world, the next twelve months promises to be even more exciting. All the CD-adapco teams are committed to make this happen!

Jean-Claude Ercolanelli
Vice President, Product Management
CD-adapco