| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer-aided Engineering Software |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Westminster, California |
| Area served | Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Latin America |
| Key people | David Weinberg, CEO Phil Potasiak, President |
| Products | NEi Nastran, NEi Stratus, NEi Works, NEi Fusion, NEi Editor, NEi Explicit, see the complete NEi Software Product List |
| Employees | 40 |
| Website | NEiSoftware.com |
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NEi Software, founded as Noran Engineering, Inc. in 1991, is an engineering software company that develops, publishes and promotes FEA (finite element analysis) software programs including its flagship product NEi Nastran. The FEA algorithms allow engineers to analyze how a structure will behave under a variety of conditions. The types of analysis include linear and nonlinear stress, dynamic, and heat transfer analysis. Details related to the company's products can be found in the NEi Software Product List. MCT, PPFA (Progressive Ply Failure Analysis), DDAM, optimization, fatigue, CFD and event simulation are just some of the specialized types of analysis supported by the company.
NEi Software is used by engineers primarily in the aerospace, automobile, maritime, and offshore industries. The software is intended to save costs by reducing time to market; testing for function and safety; reducing the need for physical prototypes; and minimizing materials, weight and size of structures. After designers create an FEA model, analysts check for potential points of stress and buckling.[1] Customers include racing yacht builder Farr Yacht Design,[2] and SpaceShipTwo builder Scaled Composites. Other projects using NEi Software include the Swift KillerBee unmanned air vehicle,[3] Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR),[4] James Webb Space Telescope, Red Bull Racing's Minardi Formula One car, and the NuLens Ltd. Accommodative Intraocular lens eye implant.[5]
1991
Noran Engineering, Inc. founded
Eidetics Corporation becomes first Noran Engineering customer
1995
OEM deal signed with Enterprise Software Products to distribute Femap
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V1.0
1996
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V1.1
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V2.0 adding Modal, buckling, and prestress
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V2.1
1997
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V2.2 adding support for laminated composite analysis (including ply failure analysis)
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V2.3
1998
Boeing uses NEi Software on X-34
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V3 adding advanced dynamics and modal transient response
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V4 adding nonlinear static analysis
1999
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V5 adding heat transfer
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V6 adding sparse solver technology
2000
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V7
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V7.1
2001
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V8
2002
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V8.1
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V8.2 adding the next-generation Lanczos Eigensolver
Cessna standardizes on NEi Nastran for FEA
2003
Noran Engineering begins to announces its new consulting services division
2004
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V8.3 adding over 50 enhancements including advanced dynamic solutions, new shell and weld element, parallel processing solver support, and input load and boundary condition interpolation
NEi Software releases NEi Works, an embedded FEA solution for SolidWorks 3D modeling environment
2005
NEi Software releases NEi Works 2.1
Scaled Composites selects NEi Nastran Software
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V8.4
2006
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V9
NEi Software enters into a partnership with SolidWorks to produce NEi Fusion
2007
NEi Software releases NEi Fusion
Noran Engineering becomes a UGS (now Siemens) Channel Partner
Token Based Pricing Introduced
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V9.1 added automated impact analysis, hyperelastic material, linear surface contact, automatic shell-to-shell contact, automated surface contact and weld generation, a 3D composite solid element, vibration fatigue analysis
U.S. Naval Academy Selects NEi Nastran
NEiFusion Wins the Design News magazine "Golden Mousetrap" award
2008
NEi Software joins the Intel Certified Solutions Program
Noran Engineering, Inc. becomes NEi Software
NEi Software releases NEi Fusion V1.4
NEi Nastran Selected as a "Top 10 Product of 2008" by Medical Design Magazine
2009
NEi Software releases NEi Nastran V9.2 adding progressive ply failure analysis (PPFA™), concrete material model, direct enforced motion, bolt preload, enhanced rigid element features, visualization support for various entities, automatic dynamic plots during nonlinear analysis, transparent max/min, and a new NEi Editor interface
NEi Software releases NEi Works 2.0
NEi Software releases NEi Fusion 2.0
NEi Software celebrate 15 Years of Providing Femap Support
NEi Software enters a partnership with Firehole Technologies (now Firehole Composites)
NEi Software introduces NEi Explicit for Nastran
2010
NEi Software releases NEi Works 2.1
NEi Software releases NEi Fusion 2.1
NEi Nastran announces the release of NEi Nastran V10
NEi Software becomes a global reseller for Siemens PLM Software
2011
NEi Software announces the release of NEi Stratus, mobile FEA
NEi Software announces the release of NEi Nastran For Creo™
NEi Software celebrate 20 years of developing, publishing and promoting its core product, NEi Nastran
NEi Software Product List