Simufact opens Representative Office in Japan

Hamburg, Germany/Tokyo, Japan, June 12, 2014 – On May 15, 2014 Simufact Engineering has opened a Representative Office in Tokyo, Japan. With this step Simufact enlarges its business engagement as a provider of process simulation software for manufacturing industries in the Japanese market.

For seven years now Simufact maintains a close partnership to NTT Data Engineering Systems Corporation (NDES), a leading provider of CAD/CAM/CAE software in Japan. As a Channel Partner of Simufact, NDES has been responsible for the distribution and the technical support of the simulation software Simufact.forming in the Japanese market since 2007. ‘The cooperation with NDES is very successful’, says Stefan Zimmer, Director Channel Operations of Simufact. ‘NDES has been able to enlarge the user base for Simufact software up to more than 80 companies in Japan in the last few years. Thus, Japan is the strongest export market for Simufact products today.’
Simufact.forming covers a wide range of different forming processes in metal working and processing. In Japan most of the companies using Simufact simulation software come from the machinery and plant engineering sector, from the automotive industry, and supplying industries.

‘The significantly increased distribution of Simufact simulation software in Japan is no surprise. It is in line with the current success of simulation-based methods prior to the real manufacturing’, says Atsushi Kinoshita, President of NDES. ‘We expect the stronger presence of Simufact to have a positive impact on our sales activities. In addition, Simufact sets a strong signal to emphasize its engagement in Japan.’

As an interface between the Simufact headquarters in Hamburg and its Channel Partner NDES in Japan, the new Simufact Representative Office will primarily be responsible for administrative and coordinating tasks. Sales activities for the software line Simufact.forming and product-related services as training and first-level technical support (HelpDesk) remain at NDES’ responsibility.

‘Japan is a strategically important market for us; its highly sophisticated production provides a great potential to NDES and us for the distribution of our software’, says Michael Wohlmuth, Managing Director and CEO of Simufact. ‘The Japanese industry is strongly export-oriented and applies high quality standards to their products. Japan is an ideal market environment for our software products.’
The first employee in the Representative Office in Tokyo will be Shinobu Narita. ‘He is the perfect candidate since he brings commercial knowledge of the Japanese market, excellent industry contacts and a technical qualification’, Michael Wohlmuth points out.

New address and contact details of the Representative Office in Tokyo:
Representative Office
Acty 21 Bldg. 8F, 4-2-11
Shiba, Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-0014, Japan

Simufact Japan Representative
Shinobu Narita
Mobile: +81 90 65 66 26 71
E-Mail: shinobu.narita@simufact.jp

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, in the company’s subsidiaries Simufact-Americas in Plymouth, Michigan (USA), and Simufact India in Bangalore, and in the Representative Office in Tokyo, Japan, Simufact employs more than 50 people.

For more information, please visit www.simufact.com.

Volker Mensing
Director Marketing & Communications
simufact engineering gmbh
Phone: +49 (0)40 790128-160
Mobile: +49 (0)151 402 30 677
volker.mensing@simufact.de

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