MSC Software
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
) for a general purpose structural analysis program that would eventually become Nastran
Nastran
NASTRAN is a finite element analysis program that was originally developed for NASA in the late 1960s under United States government funding for the Aerospace industry. The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation was one of the principal and original developers of the public domain NASTRAN code...
(NASA Structural Analysis). The company subsequently pioneered many of the technologies that are now relied upon by industry to analyze and predict stress and strain, vibration & dynamics, acoustics, and thermal analysis. In 1971, the company released a commercial version of Nastran, named MSC/Nastran.
Two years after MSC began marketing MSC/Nastran, the company established its first overseas office in Munich, Germany. Three years after entering Europe, MSC moved eastward and opened an office in Tokyo, Japan. In 1983, MSC made its debut as a public company, and a year later the stock migrated to the American Stock Exchange
American Stock Exchange
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. The company expanded in 1992 by adding a subsidiary in Moscow, Russia. In 1995, it further expanded its growth by adding an office in Brazil. In June 1999, MSC's stockholders voted to change the company's name to MSC.Software Corporation.
In July 2009, MSC Software was acquired by the private equity firm
Private equity firm
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Symphony Technology Group.
Now Headquartered in Santa Ana, California
Santa Ana, California
Santa Ana is the county seat and second most populous city in Orange County, California, and with a population of 324,528 at the 2010 census, Santa Ana is the 57th-most populous city in the United States....
, MSC.Software currently employs approximately 1,200 people in 23 countries.
Acquisitions
September 1994 - PDA EngineeringMay 1999 - MSC Software acquired MARC Analysis Research Corporation to add software that tests complex designs and materials.
June 1999 - Universal Analytics Incorporation (UAI)
November 1999 - Computerized Structural Analysis Research Corporation (CSAR)
May 2001 - Advanced Enterprise Solutions Inc. (AES).
March 2002 - MSC Software acquired rival Mechanical Dynamics Inc. to increase its client base to over 10,000 companies.
January 2008 - MSC Software acquired thermal analysis company Network Analysis Inc. to solidify its ability to serve the thermal management market.
September 2011 - MSC Software acquired acoustic simulation company Free Field Technologies, S.A. to extend its solutions to acoustic simulation