BWI: Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA) and Denton ATD Announce Distribution Agreement

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Cranes Software International Ltd.
Monday, August 10, 2009 05:14 PM IST (11:44 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA) and Denton ATD Announce Distribution Agreement
ETA, Inc. is a Fully Owned Subsidiary of Cranes Software International Limited (CSIL) and forms a part of the Cranes Engineering Division

Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Monday, August 10, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA), a 100% subsidiary of Cranes Software International Limited and Denton ATD announce a distribution agreement allowing ETA to sell Denton Virtual Dummy products and support them through its VPG finite element modelling product. The agreement linking Denton ATD, a global leader in the development and manufacture of advanced crash dummies and safety measurement devices, and ETA, a leader in the field of virtual product development and engineering software is effective immediately.

The agreement will provide ETA, and its distribution network, the ability to distribute the Denton virtual dummy family as they are released over the next months. This agreement builds on the technical cooperation agreement that was signed between the two companies in January of 2009.

With this agreement, Denton is recognizing the customer's need for a comprehensive sales and support network related to virtual Denton products and associated products. "We are delighted to be working with ETA who has given great support to Denton since its inception of this business segment. Having ETA act as a distributor dramatically increases Denton's ability to meet the customer distribution and support demands which is a major priority associated with all Denton product," comments Dave Stein, Denton ATD President and CEO.

The agreement promises to greatly enhance ETA's future product offerings for crash simulation and occupant safety modeling. ETA President and Head-Cranes Engineering, Abe Keisoglou commented, "This agreement will not only bring our customers new opportunities to use state of the art dummy models in their simulations, but will also deliver enhanced support, training and an opportunity to access Denton's vast hardware and application knowledge."

About Denton ATD

Founded in 1974, Denton ATD, Inc. is an engineering company driven to provide their customers with quality occupant safety products such as multi-axis load cells, crash test dummies, and dummy models based on extensive material research, testing, and innovative design. More information about Denton ATD can be found at www.dentonatd.com.

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. More information about ETA can be found at www.eta.com. 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 Engineering

Cranes Engineering Group, a division of Cranes Software, provides FEA (finite element analysis) solutions, consulting, customization of products, and software development services for the automotive, aerospace, energy & power, oil & gas, electronic packaging, biomedical and civil engineering industries. The division specializes in linear & non-linear stress analysis, crash, NVH, durability, safety, thermal analysis, seismic analysis, CFD, electromagnetics, composite material analysis and civil-structure analysis & design.

The Embedded Software and Controls Unit (ESCU) of Cranes Engineering provides customized end-to-end embedded electronic control solutions & products in the field of automotive, aerospace, locomotive, power generation and industrial automation.

Working with a variety of large product development organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, Cranes Engineering has extensive experience in solving complex engineering problems and has done so in over 250 challenging projects. The group's product portfolio consists of NISA, NISA/CIVIL, NISA DesignStudio, eta/VPG and eta/DYNAFORM. Cranes engineering has strategic alliances partnerships with technology leaders such as dSPACE, LSTC and Mentor Graphics.

About Cranes Software International Limited www.cranessoftware.com.

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, defence 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, defence, 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.


CONTACT DETAILS
Prashanth Sreedharan, Cranes Software International Ltd., +91 (80) 41526400 Extn: 314, prashanth.sreedharan@cranessoftware.com

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