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Through the acquisition, Autodesk intends to expand its Digital Prototyping solution with powerful new simulation capabilities, including multiphysics, Mechanical Event Simulation (MES), and fluid-flow simulation.
“Autodesk wants to provide designers and engineers with the most comprehensive and user-friendly Digital Prototyping solution available on the market,” explained an Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions senior vice president. “By acquiring ALGOR, we gain important new capabilities for testing and predicting the effects of simultaneously acting factors such as heat and pressure on products or machinery.”
“With its accurate, easy-to-use analysis and simulation tools, ALGOR has helped mechanical engineers develop better and safer products at lower cost since 1976,” added Michael Bussler, President and founder of ALGOR. “We already have a long-standing partnership with Autodesk. Combining the proven technologies of both companies represents an exciting new chapter for our customers worldwide.”
Product Integration
ALGOR software enables the simulation of complex processes for products ranging from mobile phones and printer cartridges to oil pipelines. The acquisition will enable Autodesk customers to perform even more complex analyses under mechanical and thermal loads based on specific structural-mechanical and thermal conditions.
Following completion of the acquisition, Autodesk intends to integrate ALGOR into its Manufacturing Solutions business unit so that ALGOR’s products can continue to be developed and sold. Autodesk is pursuing an open strategy for the continued development of ALGOR products that will continue to enable collaboration with other CAD systems.
The transaction is subject to customary conditions and is expected to close in
the fourth quarter of Autodesk’s 2009 fiscal year, which ends January 31, 2009.