Vitoria-Gasteiz, 26 November 2004. Gamesa Aeronáutica has received a special mention at the MSC.Software World Users Conference in recognition of its dedicated commitment to the use of advanced simulation tools, as provided by this IT company.

Mr. José Luis Osoro Larruscain, CEO of Gamesa Aeronáutica, was the person chosen to receive this award, which took place during the course of MSC.Software?s World Users Conference, held between 21 and 23 November in Munich (Germany).

Gamesa Aeronáutica, part of the Gamesa Group, is the supplier of aeronautical structures and components to leading aeronautics manufacturers, such as Embraer, Bombardier, Airbus and Sikorsky. Its business encompasses the entire process of product development, from the initial stage of design engineering to the final delivery of the components and after-sales service.

MSC.Software is the global leader in the field of numerical simulation. This company provides advanced software for its application in a wide range of engineering specialities, and for a large number of productive sectors, with core areas being its leadership in the aerospace and car manufacturing industries.

The MSC.Software World Users Conference is an international forum of communication for engineers and executives from companies in a diversity of industrial sectors, especially in the fields of aeronautics and car manufacturing. The aim is to share experiences and ideas as well as the more salient results obtained through the use of the simulation software that MSC.Software markets.

By means of the special mentions that the Conference awards, MSC.Software wishes to acknowledge those firms that have excelled over the past two years in the use and application of MSC.Software simulation tools and their integration in a significant manner within the product development cycle. On this occasion, together with Gamesa, the honour of a special mention has also corresponded to companies such as BMW, Bombardier Transportation, Alenia Aeronautica, Volkswagen AG and Airbus Germany.

In the business of calculation engineering and product design, the use and application of the tools for numerical simulation and computer assisted engineering (CAE) constitute an essential element that allows for reducing development cycles and improving the quality of the end product. Gamesa Aeronáutica is firmly committed to the integration, development and application of these tools in its engineering activity, and in recent years it has achieved innovative results that have enabled it to occupy a position of certain advantage over its competitors.

An example of this concerns the results that have been displayed at one of the Conference´s technical sessions, in which Gamesa Aeronáutica has also been invited to make a presentation, regarding the use of non-linear methods of analysis for estimating the prior and subsequent responses to the warping of aeronautical structures. The results forthcoming in this field have enabled design solutions to be proposed that have meant a significant reduction in the weight of the structures.