12 Sep 2012

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Banks on HEEDS to Help Win EcoCar2 Competition

East Lansing, MI (September 4, 2012) – What do you get when you combine HEEDS + NX + ANSYS + Star-CCM+? For Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), an academic leader, this combination provides a good chance for them to win the latest Chevy Malibu Eco Future Contest.

ERAU is one of 15 teams representing prestigious universities that are participating in the EcoCar2 Competition, which is organized and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors. This three-year contest challenges the teams to:

• Reduce fuel consumption,

• Reduce well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emissions,

• Reduce criteria tailpipe emissions, and

• Maintain consumer acceptability for performance, utility and safety as applied to the Chevy Malibu.

HEEDS (Red Cedar Technology’s flagship product) provides the process automation capabilities to integrate various CAD and CAE tools and perform robust, design optimization. This enables commercial and academic design teams to produce innovative solutions which meet and exceed performance objectives. To learn more about HEEDS call 517.664.1137 or visit www.redcedartech.com.

To learn more about the Chevy Malibu Eco Future Contest and to keep track of ERAU’s progress you may wish to read this link and contact Domenic Barsotti, et al at ERAU in Daytona Beach, Florida.

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08 Aug 2012

Red Cedar Technology and SimuTech Group Form Strategic Partnership to Expand Engineering Design Optimization

East Lansing, MI (August 8, 2012) – Red Cedar Technology announced today that it has chosen SimuTech Group to be its distributor of HEEDS Multi-Disciplinary Optimization software and value-added services throughout Canada.

SimuTech Group is a premier engineering simulation services company and the largest reseller of ANSYS simulation software in North America. SimuTech Group Canada, formerly known as ROI Engineering, has been providing Computer-Aided Engineering solutions for 30 years and operates out of offices in Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary.

“We’re delighted to join forces with SimuTech Group to expand the successful deployment of parametric design optimization in Canada,” said Bob Ryan, CEO of Red Cedar Technology. “SimuTech has a large staff of experienced professionals with strong domain knowledge in the aerospace, automotive, military, and energy markets. It’s a perfect fit!”

HEEDS parametric design optimization software, from Red Cedar Technology, works seamlessly with SimuTech’s current simulation suite, including ANSYS (FEA and CFD), MOLDFLOW, FE-SAFE (Fatigue), and TOSCA. “Our clients are increasingly looking for better means to optimize their virtual prototype simulation models. We surveyed the market and found Red Cedar Technology provides the very best parametric optimization capabilities available today and we are excited about being able to offer a value added product offering that is guaranteed to provide an ROI ,” said Terry Walker, President of SimuTech Group Canada.

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21 Jun 2012

CD-adapco and Red Cedar Technology Break New Ground with Strategic Partnership

East Lansing, MI (June 21, 2012) - Red Cedar Technology announced today that CD-adapco has agreed to embed HEEDS design optimization technology into the upcoming release (V7.04) of its market-leading STAR-CCM+ CFD software. The new process automation and optimization capabilities will be packaged as modules named Optimate and Optimate+.

Optimate allows engineering designers to easily set up, execute, and post-process design exploration studies such as parameter sweeps and/or DOEs. Optimate+ adds the capability to perform automated design optimization studies using the SHERPA algorithm from Red Cedar, providing the required efficiency for optimization with complex CFD simulations. In addition to DOE methods and the SHERPA algorithm, the Optimate add-ons also tap in to Red Cedar’s post-processing methods, which allow users to easily analyze and explore results of design studies.

“The Optimate solution sets a new standard for CFD design exploration,” said Bob Ryan, CEO of Red Cedar Technology. “CFD optimization is now simple, efficient, and cost-effective.”

Following their pattern of innovative CAE software licensing, CD-adapco announced a new Power Token licensing scheme along with the Optimate solution. Power Tokens give the ultimate flexibility to engineers allowing them to maximize their hardware and software configurations for any given situation in the most cost-effective manner. These Power Tokens can be used to “mix and match” the number of simultaneous simulations AND the number of parallel processes within each simulation.

“Software licensing costs have historically been the most prohibitive bottleneck in implementing simulation driven design in many engineering organizations,” said CD-adapco Senior VP Bill Clark. “CD-adapco prides itself on our history of working together with our customers to define innovation not only in engineering simulation technology, but also CAE licensing models. We believe the Optimate solution with Power Tokens provides unprecedented access to cost-effective simulation driven design using advanced CFD methods.”

The Optimate solution along with Power Token licensing will be available with the release of STAR-CCM+ v7.04 in June 2012. A recorded product introduction webinar, which includes a demonstration of Optimate, is available from the CD-adapco website.

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Banks on HEEDS to Help Win EcoCar2 Competition

Red Cedar Technology and SimuTech Group Form Strategic Partnership to Expand Engineering Design Optimization

CD-adapco and Red Cedar Technology Break New Ground with Strategic Partnership

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