LMS (company)
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1980 |
| resolution | November 2012 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Siemens |
| Seat | Leuven , Belgium |
| management | Jan Leuridan |
| Number of employees | 1150 |
| sales | € 175 million (2010) |
| Branch | Measurement technology , software and technical services |
| Website | http://web.archive.org/web/20130302232909/http://www.lmsintl.com/ |
LMS International was a provider of simulation software and development services. The company, founded in 1980 and headquartered in Leuven , Belgium, had over 1150 employees worldwide. LMS was taken over by Siemens at the end of 2012.
background
LMS has partnered with companies in the automotive, aerospace and other manufacturing industries looking to optimize their products. LMS offered these companies solutions for evaluating various properties of mechanical systems. These properties include acoustics, vibrations, oscillations, operational stability and dynamics as well as the physical modeling of the behavior of mechatronic systems .
LMS Deutschland GmbH was a subsidiary of LMS International NV . The German head office was in Kaiserslautern . The Kaiserslautern location created software solutions in the CAE and test area for fatigue analysis. In addition to software development, the Customer Service and Engineering Service divisions also offered service life and fatigue strength analysis. The Leonberg and Munich locations were responsible for service and sales within Germany. Further German branches were located in Göttingen and Hamburg .
history
LMS emerged in 1980 from the mechanical engineering department of the Belgian University of Leuven . Initially, the company specialized in the areas of acoustics and vibrations as well as prototype tests. In 1983 LMS developed its first computer-aided measuring system . In 1987 LMS brought a new generation of measurement systems based on Unix workstations onto the market. In the 1980s the company expanded through an international network of branches and sales offices. The first branches opened in the European centers of vehicle construction: Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain. In 1988 an office was added in the USA. As virtual tests and simulations became more and more important across the industry, LMS relied on innovation and offered solutions for tests as well as simulations that can be used to solve central tasks in vehicle development. Additional offices were opened in the Far East in the 1990s .
LMS expanded primarily through acquisitions of suppliers and competitors. In 2007, LMS acquired Imagine . LMS's product offering now included multidisciplinary CAE simulation. This made LMS the only provider on the market with a complete software platform for modeling and simulating mechatronic systems in vehicles, aircraft and other complex mechanical products. In 2010, LMS took over Emmeskay , a global provider of modern simulation solutions for model-based system development (MBSE). This acquisition was an important milestone for LMS. He supplemented LMS 'solutions for multidisciplinary system simulation with new applications and services for model-based product development and consolidated LMS' position as a global leader in technical product development with a portfolio of test and simulation software and related technical services. In 2011, LMS merged with Samtech . Samtech was a provider in the CAE industry and developer of finite element analysis software (FEA).
LMS International was taken over by Siemens at the end of 2012. LMS solutions will continue to be marketed by Siemens (as of September 2018) as part of the 'Product Lifecycle Management' product portfolio.
Products
- LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim
- Simulation platform for the analysis of multidisciplinary, intelligent systems and for the calculation and optimization of their performance in different disciplines
- LMS Virtual.Lab
- Software suite that can be used to simulate and optimize the behavior of mechanical systems in terms of structural integrity, acoustics and vibration behavior, operational stability, system dynamics (e.g. driving behavior and handling; dynamic movement behavior) and other properties
- LMS Test.Lab
- Integrated, scalable software suite with a uniform platform for test-based development.
- LMS TecWare
- Software for evaluating operational measurements
- LMS SCADAS
- Hardware for data acquisition for mobile and laboratory measurements
- LMS Test.Xpress
- Analysis software for acoustics and vibrations, portable system for data acquisition and analysis
Individual evidence
- ↑ PMA. KU Leuven, accessed August 1, 2011 .
- ^ Noise and Vibration Research Group. KU Leuven, accessed August 8, 2011 .
- ↑ Company profile . Belgian Foreign Trade Agency, accessed October 18, 2011 (French).
- ↑ LMS International acquires Emmeskay, press release from July 16, 2010 ( Memento from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Vogel Communications Group GmbH & Co. KG: Siemens takes over LMS as a leading provider of mechatronic simulation . ( vogel.de [accessed on September 27, 2018]).
- ↑ Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software: LMS: Siemens PLM Software. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .