The prevalence of generic, highly commoditized computer-aided design and manufacturing solutions has spawned an opportunity for applications that add value by addressing the industry-specific needs of designers and manufacturers. VISTAGY has seized that opportunity by developing software that enables the creation of better designs and the use of innovative materials geared specifically to the automotive, aerospace, wind and marine industries.
"With its domain expertise and industry-specific software solutions, the company propagates frugal engineering among its end-users, thereby increasing efficiency in production and reducing total cost," said Frost & Sullivan Program Manager, Arunkumar Janarthanan. "VISTAGY's solutions complement existing computer-aided design (CAD) and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, thereby enabling end-users to retain their existing CAD infrastructure, while enhancing the performance of their design engineering operations."
The company's innovative core technology, domain expertise, and process knowledge, has consistently delivered solutions that address these end-user challenges by enabling engineers to "work how they think." As a result, the company has been able to add significant value to its products.
VISTAGY is at the forefront of developing technologies that can address challenges associated with mass production of automobiles, ensuring better designs and design techniques. In the aerospace industry, there are numerous challenges associated with the integration of composites in the ultimate airframe assembly process. It is essential to have a design environment that is flexible enough to handle the integration challenges.
VISTAGY's AeroSuite™, a pioneering, integrated solution suite, addresses these challenges with an enhanced scope that covers the design, assembly, manufacturing and quality process. While FiberSIM®, a composites engineering solution, enables VISTAGY to provide an innovative design engineering environment, SyncroFIT® has enabled VISTAGY to address complex issues associated with efficient design and manufacturing of airframe assemblies and its associated fasteners, as well as supply chain complexities. This integrated solution offering has enabled aerospace industry end-users to address complex engineering and assembly issues while reducing development time.
VISTAGY has also developed a significant presence in the rapidly emerging wind energy market as leading manufacturers have adopted FiberSIM to enable them to enhance and streamline their entire design-to-manufacturing processes for composite wind blades.
VISTAGY's Seat Design Environment™ (SDE) is one more example. While the seat trim cover designing concept has been traditionally conducted in 2-D, VISTAGY, through its SDE, allows 3-D modeling for seat trim designs, thereby ensuring faster time to market, optimal material usage, reduced total engineering costs, and improved cost forecast predictability.
To maintain its leadership position, VISTAGY has leveraged technological partnerships with research/educational institutions to consistently deliver innovative design engineering software for new materials and processes, while its partnerships with leading PLM and CAD solution providers -- including Siemens PLM, PTC, and Dassault -- demonstrate its product capability as an enabling technology for end-users.
"VISTAGY's holistic and innovative solutions enabled it to achieve a 29 percent revenue growth and 36 percent software license growth in 2010," said Janarthanan. "The ability to consistently grow and expand into new markets at a significant pace is a clear reflection of VISTAGY's solution strength as well as customer confidence."
Overall, VISTAGY, with its innovative suite of solutions, effectively differentiates itself as a key enabler of sustainable manufacturing. The industry-specific software solutions that help manufacturers do more with less by optimizing material usage, innovating newer processes, and incorporating new materials, positions VISTAGY products as a solution of choice in the composites design engineering space.
In recognition of these achievements, Frost & Sullivan is proud to present VISTAGY with the 2011 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement in the composites design engineering solutions market.
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About VISTAGY
VISTAGY, Inc. is a leading global provider of industry-specific engineering software and services that create rich product descriptions for better-informed decision making early in the design cycle. The company enhances commercial 3-D CAD platforms by applying specialized process knowledge and domain expertise to create solutions that solve some of the world's most complex engineering problems. VISTAGY is a strategic partner to hundreds of leading manufacturers in the aerospace, automotive and wind energy industries. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Please visit http://www.vistagy.com.
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