India's Cranes Subsidiary ETA Gets SAE Award
for Detroit
 BANGALORE,
India, Dec 14, 2009 – Cranes Software announces that its subsidiary Engineering Technology Associates,
Inc. (ETA) was selected from amongst five finalists as the winner of the 2nd
Annual SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Detroit Section/MITEF Vehicle
Innovation Competition. ETA’s winning entry was a seamlessly integrated design
development process, entitled the Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process.
After two selection rounds, the five finalists were invited to present
their innovations at the San Marino Club in Troy, Michigan. Representatives
from industry leading automotive manufacturers and suppliers served as
judges for the competition and ultimately selected the ACP Process as the
winner of the award in the established company category. The award marked
ACP as the innovation likely to have the biggest positive impact on the
automotive industry and its products going forward.
 ETA
presented the key benefits of the ACP Process at the event. These include a
demonstrated capability to reduce product development costs by 35-40%,
reduce product mass by approximately 20%, improve product performance
(stiffness, NVH, crash/safety, durability) as well as reduce manufacturing
and tooling cost through part consolidation.
The ACP Process is a proprietary, performance-driven, holistic product
design development method which is based on design optimization. ACP
incorporates the use of multiple CAE tools in a systematic process to
generate the optimal design solution.
Contrary to conventional methods where just one or a few design concepts
are evaluated, using the ACP process, multiple load conditions are evaluated
simultaneously for hundreds of design concepts. The resulting concepts are
detailed, analyzed and optimized. This ensures that final product meets all
performance, mass and cost targets.
Significant efficiencies and product improvements are achievable using
the ACP Process, whether it is applied on a component, sub-system or
full-system. In this practice, ETA’s expert team revisits process
requirements and uses the most advanced technology, tools and materials to
give the client the lightest possible structure.
A tier-one supplier to the global automotive industry, ETA’s clients
include Ford, General Motors (GM), and Chrysler. Its esteemed client list
also includes the Auto/Steel Partnership (A/SP) and WorldAutoSteel.
Advanced Product Development engineers working as structural analysts for
the world’s largest automotive manufacturers established ETA in 1983. ETA’s
expertise in the areas of vehicle durability, NVH, metal forming,
crashworthiness, occupant safety and product design have led to its
development of the ACP Process. Proactive in the creation and implementation
of new analysis methods and software, ETA is the developer of DYNAFORM and
VPG. ETA is a subsidiary of Cranes Software International Limited (CSIL).
About ETA
Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. has impacted the design and
development of numerous products including automobiles, trains, aircraft,
household appliances and consumer electronics. By developing software
products that enable engineers to simulate the behavior of these products
during manufacture or during their use, ETA has been involved in making
these products safer, more durable, lighter weight, and less expensive to
develop.
ETA is a subsidiary of Cranes Software international Limited
(CSIL) within the Cranes
Engineering group. For more information, please go to
www.eta.com or call (248) 729-3010.
About Cranes Software International Limited
Cranes Software International Limited, through its software products and
productized solutions addresses the needs of scientists, engineers,
researchers, and decision makers in multinational companies, governments,
defense establishments, academia and research institutions in the aerospace,
automotive engineering, banking and financial services, bioinformatics,
biology, biotech, chemistry, physics, communications, consumer research and
marketing, criminological sciences, cryptography, defense, electronics
engineering, empirical analysis, engineering, environmental sciences,
genetics, geo sciences, life sciences, material characteristics, material
sciences, medical research, oil exploration, pathology, psychological
research, quality control, remote sensing, signal processing and
telecommunications space. While Cranes Software’s core areas of operations
are enterprise analytics, engineering design, simulation and testing, the
company's business interests also include high-end training services and R &
D in future technologies.
Cranes Software offers a range of proprietary products - SYSTAT,
SigmaPlot, SigmaStat, SigmaScan, TableCurve 2D, TableCurve 3D, PeakFit,
NISA, NISA/CIVIL, NISA DesignStudio, eta/VPG, eta/DYNAFORM, XID, XIP, Survey
ASYST, iCap Reporter, iCap Webmaster, iCap Dashboarder, iCap Data Primer,
InventX, Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Team Server, Cubeware Importer,
Protector Plus, and world-renowned products from reputed principals such as
Livermore Software Technology Corporation, The Mathworks, Texas Instruments,
dSPACE, Mentor Graphics, IBM, Siemens, Genomatix Software Inc. and Breault
Research. The company also has alliances with Microsoft, BusinessObjects,
BEA, Borland, Net Solutions, Anantara, Wipro and Craft Silicon.
Cranes Software has a presence in 39 countries (through its direct
offices, subsidiaries, channel partners, franchise relationships and other
alliances) and has global user base of over 350,000 users.
For more information, visit
www.cranessoftware.com.
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