Cranes Software, SERC to co-develop science

New Delhi, Aug 7 (UNI) Cranes Software International, today announced a strategic alliance between its wholly owned subsidiary, Engineering Mechanics Research India (EMRC) and Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC), to develop products for the scientific and engineering community of India.

''This partnership is extremely significant and launches the long term MoU of co-developing products in areas of Structural Engineering and Information and Communication Technology. The integration of FINEART with NISA Display III is a winning combination and will benefit the users and will help us serve the community better,'' SERC Director Dr N Lakshmanan said.

Under the initial phase of the agreement, the two partners will jointly develop a graphical pre-post processor for SERC's finite element code for linear static, dynamic and non-linear transient dynamics, FINite element Engineering analysis using Adaptive Refinement Techniques (FINEART).

To suit the Indian scientific, engineering, research and academic community, the software will exclusively use latest software architectures to attain maximum performance on high-end UNIX workstations and Linux based PC's.

''We are proud to be associated with a premier national lab like SERC and will work together to develop newer applications and possibilities by combining both our skill sets. We are confident that the SERC-Cranes alliance will result in developing indigenous products which are world-class with excellent performance to price ratios compared to the world's leading CAE packages,'' Cranes Software International Managing Director Asif Khader said.

In addition to SERC-Chennai, Cranes will work with C-MMACS-Bangalore, RRL-Bhopal, RRL-Thiruvananthapuram and NML-Jamshedpur to develop various specialised modules of FINEART.

SERC is one of the national laboratories under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Its services are extensively used by the central and state governments and public and private sector undertakings.

Cranes Ltd is provider of specialised scientific software products and services.

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