MSC Software Corporation develops multidiscipline simulation software solutions for engineers to validate and optimize their designs. It offers integrated solutions, such as Adams, a multibody dynamics simulation software; Actran, an acoustic simulation software; Easy5, a controls simulation software; Marc, a nonlinear and multiphysics software; Digimat, a nonlinear multi-scale material and structure software; and SimXpert, a multidiscipline simulation software. It offers solver solutions, including MSC Nastran, a structural and multidiscipline software; Dytran, an explicit nonlinear and fluid structure interaction software; MSC Fatigue, a fatigue simulation software; and Sinda, a thermal software. It offers mid-sized business solutions, such as FEA, AFEA, and TFEA, the structural, nonlinear, and thermal simulation bundles; MSC Nastran Desktop, a multidiscipline simulation software for the desktop; and SimDesigner, a CAD-embedded multidiscipline simulation software. It offers modeling solutions, including Patran, a FE modeling and pre/post processing software; and SimXpert, a multidiscipline simulation environment software. It offers SimManager, a simulation data and process management software; MaterialCenter, a materials lifecycle management system; and services and training. Its software solutions are used in acoustics, composites, crash and safety, design optimization, fatigue and durability, multibody dynamics, multidiscipline, noise and vibration, nonlinear analysis, process automation, rotor dynamics, SPDM, structural analysis, systems and controls, and thermal analysis applications. It serves aerospace, automotive, consumer products, defense, electronics, energy, heavy equipment, machinery, medical, motorsports, packaging, rail, and shipbuilding industries worldwide. The company was formerly known as MSC.Software Corporation and changed its name to MSC Software Corporation in 2011. The company was founded in 1963 and is based in Santa Ana, California.
