COSMOSDesignSTAR Purchased by Nikon for Design, CAE Purposes.

LOS ANGELES -- COSMOS(TM) today announced the purchase of COSMOSDesignSTAR(TM) by Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, for conducting analyses of all its camera products including digital, film, single-lens reflex and compact cameras, lenses, and other imaging equipment.

"We organized a project team to select the best design and computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools for Nikon," said Mr. Shunsuke Ueno, manager of the Development Management Department of Imaging for Nikon. "The team was made up of camera designers and experts in CAE. They used COSMOSDesignSTAR software and compared it to several other tools for six months, and based on the testing results, Nikon chose it as the best application because of its ease-of-use, powerful capabilities (especially nonlinear analysis), and its cost and performance ratio."

Nikon Corporation is particularly interested in the software's nonlinear analysis capabilities because many of its analyses focus on gaps and large displacements. Mr. Yoshinobu Nasu, chief of the Development Management Department of Imaging, added, "In 2004, Nikon plans to have 50% of its designers who use 3D CAD perform analyses with COSMOSDesignSTAR, and we will deploy it to 100% of our designers in the very near future."

"Nikon has long been recognized as one of the world's leading camera manufacturers in both technology and quality," said Lih Wu, general manager and vice president of the COSMOS Advanced Analysis Group. "In recognition of the importance of up-front design simulation, the company adopted COSMOSDesignSTAR as an engineering tool that's essential to ensuring both quality and reliability. COSMOSDesignSTAR's ease-of-use and power will help Nikon retain its market-leading position in the camera industry."

A multi-CAD design analysis tool, COSMOSDesignSTAR helps design engineers and expert analysts alike detect potential design problems quickly and correct them before beginning prototype production, saving companies the time and expense of post-production fixes. In use in some 2,000 companies, COSMOSDesignSTAR is fully associative with Autodesk(R) Inventor, Solid Edge(R), and SolidWorks(R) software, and supports CATIA(R) V5 through Rev. 13, and can also work with designs from other popular CAD programs via STEP and IGES transfer.

By conducting multiple "what if" studies, design engineers can determine the reliability of their designs quickly, shorten design review cycles, and reduce the number of physical prototypes that need to be tested. In addition to such basic design analysis capabilities as linear static and thermal, COSMOSDesignSTAR offers advanced capabilities including nonlinear and fatigue analyses.

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COSMOS solutions have been chosen by over 12,000 companies worldwide, believed to make COSMOS the most widely used finite element analysis (FEA) software in the world. The company, formerly known as Structural Research & Analysis Corporation, is an affiliate of Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq:DASTY, Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA). COSMOS software offers computer aided engineering (CAE) solutions ranging from simple stress and displacement tests to more complex analyses including impact testing, nonlinear, dynamic response, and fatigue simulation. COSMOS has been a leading developer and innovator of FEA, optimization, and simulation software products since 1982. For the latest news, information, or a live online demonstration, visit the company's Web site (www.cosmosm.com) or call [phone].

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