Istanbul Technical University and Simufact Engineering establish ‘Virtual Manufacturing Laboratory’

Industry in Turkey has a growing demand for engineers with simulation know-how
Virtual tryout methods are on the advance in Turkey as well

Istanbul, Turkey, January 21, 2014 – The Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and Simufact Engineering have established a ‘Virtual Manufacturing Laboratory’. The Laboratory will extend ITU´s education, research and development capabilities in the field of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and virtual try-out technologies – as a response to the growing industrial demand in Turkey for engineers with manufacturing simulation software expertise. The official opening ceremony was held by the Faculty of Machinery on November 20, 2013.

During the opening ceremony, Professor Lutfullah Kuddusi, Associate Dean of the ITU Machinery Faculty, stated: ‘Virtual try-out methods are getting spread and we shall be familiar with this level of technology. As we were informed recently from industry about the need of engineers who are eligible to use manufacturing simulation software, we have decided to establish the laboratory in which the Simufact software will be utilized.’
Germany-based Simufact Engineering is one of the leading providers of manufacturing simulation software for metalworking and -processing companies. Virtual testing methods help companies save valuable production resources and simultaneously reduce the time needed to release innovative production processes for (serial) production.
In his speech at the opening ceremony Associate Professor Dr. Murat Tabanli emphasized Simufact’s user-friendly software interface and accurate results.

Prior to the opening ceremony, ITU and Simufact held a one day seminar titled ‘CAE applications in Manufacturing Industry’ which attracted participants from both industry and academia.
In a first step the ‘Virtual Manufacturing Laboratory’ will be used for the course IML402- Manufacturing Laboratory II, in which undergraduate students will perform virtual tests for basic metal forming processes, followed by physical experiments. Besides, graduate students may use the software for advanced academic applications.

The ITU was founded in 1773, during Ottoman Empire period, under the name of ‘Seminary of Naval Engineering’. Today the university meets the needs of more than 30.000 students, most of them striving for an engineering qualification. ITU is placed in the heart of the most industrialized area of Turkey: Istanbul and its vicinity.

Simufact Engineering is a global operating software company providing process simulation products and services to manufacturing industries. Today, after almost 20 years of developing and supporting simulation solutions for the design and optimization of manufacturing techniques in metal processing, the Hamburg (Germany) headquartered company has established as one of the leaders in this business area. Simufact succeeds in extending its global market share backed up by a dynamically growing customer base exceeding a number of 500 customers. Simufact customers come from all areas of manufacturing technology: hot forging, cold forming, sheet metal forming, rolling, ring rolling, open die forging, mechanical joining, heat treatment, and welding. As a service partner, the company is offering individual solutions for manufacturing processes, using state-of-the-art CAE tools. Additional services like consulting, training and technical support complete Simufact’s performance.
In their headquarters in Hamburg, in the German offices in Aachen, Kassel, and Marburg, as well as in the company’s subsidiaries Simufact-Americas in Plymouth, Michigan (USA), and Simufact India in Bangalore, Simufact employs more than 50 people. A strong and continuously growing network composed of local offices, subsidiaries and channel partners ensures global support.

For more information, please visit www.simufact.com

Volker Mensing
Director Marketing & Communications
Tel.: +49 (0)40 790162-160
Cell: +49 (0)151 402 30 677
volker.mensing@simufact.de

simufact engineering gmbh
Tempowerkring 3
21079 Hamburg
Germany

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