january 2008
flomerics celebrates its 20th anniversary as an independent company this year, placing
it firmly into a rare and elite group of companies that have prospered for such
a long period. according to flomerics’ founder, dr david tatchell, this
landmark is a testimony to the company’s high-integrity, people-oriented
culture and its core concept of delivering engineering simulation software for
use by designers and engineers rather than just full-time analysts and
specialists. flomerics has reached an age that puts it among the oldest
companies involved in computer aided engineering, and has just completed a
record-breaking fiscal year where it has achieved a new high in revenue and
seen its worldwide customer base grow to over 2,500 sites and over 7,000
individuals.
“over the past 20 years the market has clearly validated our approach of embedding
powerful simulation software into the heart of our customers’ design
processes,” said dr mike reynell, flomerics’ director of marketing. “the key is
to make simulation software easy to use for the people with the responsibility
for developing innovative products and processes that drive their own
companies’ success.”
the founders of flomerics, david tatchell and harvey rosten, first worked
together in the 1970s pioneering the commercial availability of cfd
technologies. as electronic devices became more powerful, it became
increasingly important to know a system’s precise cooling requirements at the
design phase. taking advantage of this market opportunity, tatchell and rosten
founded flomerics in 1988 to develop cfd software that simulated thermal
exchange at the pre-protoyping phase of product development. tatchell served as
chief executive officer of flomerics until his retirement in 2006. rosten led
the development effort for the company’s first products but died tragically of
a brain tumor in 1997.
the company’s first product, flotherm, was launched in september 1989 for use
in thermal design for electronic systems. today, flotherm remains the clear
market leader in this area with a client list that includes virtually all the
major electronics companies in the world. flomerics’ second product, flovent,
was released in early 1990. this product simulates airflow in buildings and is
used to optimize heating, ventilation and air conditioning in buildings. in
1995 flomerics went public with a listing on the london stock exchange
alternative investment market.
in 2005, flomerics acquired the hungarian-based thermal test equipment company,
micred. the addition of this world-leading technology to flomerics’ portfolio
represents an important step in providing a complete, integrated solution to
customers in the electronics industry.
in 2006 flomerics acquired the german-based company nika gmbh together with a
new breed of cfd software that is fully embedded in the mainstream mechanical
design environment and enables mechanical design engineers to analyze and
optimize complex fluid flow and heat transfer processes across a wide range of
products and industries. seven key technologies distinguish the efd product
family from traditional cfd software, making it quicker and easier to use, more
robust, and more accurate. the efd product family is tightly embedded with
leading 3d mechanical computer-aided design (mcad) software such as solidworks,
pro/engineer and catia v5.
“we are now targeting a much broader range of the engineering market while
remaining true to the vision of our founders by providing cfd software with a
simple interface and automated capabilities that enable it to be used as part
of the mainstream product development process,” reynell concluded. “we will
continue to move forward over the next 20 years by targeting ever broader
sections of the market with simulation software that accelerates product
design, improves product performance and reliability, and reduces costs.”
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for further information, please contact:
mike reynell
director of marketing
flomerics group plc
81 bridge road
hampton court
surrey, kt8 9hh
uk
tel: +44 (0)20 8487 3000
fax: +44 (0)20 8487 3001
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