The MacNeal Group Announces Strategic Partnership Agreement With Japanese Company TechnoStar

The MacNeal Group Announces Strategic Partnership Agreement With Japanese Company TechnoStar

NASTRAN-xMG and VENUS Visual Engineering Software Suite to Be Distributed Throughout North America, Europe and Asia

ALTADENA, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The MacNeal Group (tMG), a developer of advanced technologies for product design simulation software, today announced the signing of a software cross-distribution agreement with the Japanese software development company TechnoStar Co. Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan. Under the terms of the agreement, tMG will sell and support its NASTRAN-xMG product and TechnoStar's VENUS suite of software products in North America, and TechnoStar will sell and support its VENUS software suite of products and tMG's NASTRAN-xMG product in Asia and Europe. This partnership between two experienced teams of computer-aided-engineering software development and sales professionals further strengthens each company's ability to distribute and support its products worldwide.

"The software cross-distribution agreement with TechnoStar delivers on tMG's commitment to provide users of computer-aided-engineering with advanced and innovative technologies for simulating the performance of their product designs earlier in the design cycle," said Mark Kenyon, CEO of tMG. "The ability to deliver and support the combination of NASTRAN-xMG and the VENUS software suite offers product development companies throughout the world the opportunity to access the most advanced technologies available for modeling and solving virtual product development simulation problems."

"VENUS visual engineering software has helped our customers to achieve tremendous productivity gains within their digital engineering process. Being able to offer along with our VENUS product suite a NASTRAN-xMG system containing core simulation technologies developed by tMG, allows TechnoStar to meet its customers' demands for best in class virtual product development solutions," said Mars Tateishi, President of TechnoStar. "Together VENUS visual engineering software and NASTRAN-xMG provide a simulation environment that reduces product development time and increases the accuracy and reliability of simulation results. Personally, I feel honored to work with highly respected Dr. Richard MacNeal and his team."

About The MacNeal Group

The MacNeal Group (tMG) is a software development and services company dedicated to the delivery of finite element analysis technologies to improve the reliability and efficiency of virtual product development. The principal founder of the company is Dr. Richard H. MacNeal. Dr. MacNeal has long been recognized throughout the worldwide community of finite element analysis users and developers as being one of the foremost authorities on finite element technology. The company focuses on the development of an "open architecture" NASTRAN(R) system that delivers improved accuracy and reliability along with added flexibility for integrating computer-aided-engineering processes. tMG is headquartered in Altadena, California USA. For more information on tMG and its products and services, please visit www.macnealgroup.com.

About TechnoStar Co. Ltd.

TechnoStar, founded by the recognized computer-aided-engineering expert and entrepreneur Masaru (Mars) Tateishi in April 2002, develops, markets, and supports a visual engineering software suite under the name VENUS-Solutions. Based on a legacy free breakthrough data structure and guided by customer requirements, VENUS has been developed from day one to overcome the challenges and bottlenecks in simulation model generation (VENUS-Pre), results visualization (VENUS-Post), and collaborative engineering (VENUS-Viewer) of today's virtual product development process. TechnoStar customers report tremendous productivity gains by applying the high-performance and automation technologies offered by VENUS-Solutions in their digital engineering process. Customers include leading global companies such as Canon, Honda, Mazda, Nissan, Toyota.

TechnoStar Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and operates subsidiaries in Beijing, China, and Unterschleissheim (Munich), Germany. For more details please visit www.e-technostar.com.

NASTRAN is a registered trademark of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASTRAN-xMG is a trademark of The MacNeal Group, LLC

TechnoStar and VENUS-Solutions are trademarks of TechnoStar Co., Ltd.


Source: The MacNeal Group

CONTACT: Michael J. Krauski, Director of Sales of The MacNeal Group,
LLC., +1-262-567-8654, mike.krauski@macnealgroup.com

Web site: http://www.e-technostar.com/
http://www.macnealgroup.com/


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