Speaker 1: So MSC Adams is a motion simulation package. So in, in the simplest terms, it allows you to build a mechanism and solve to predict where all the parts of the mechanism are at any given point in time. It allows you to augment that model with control systems, with flexible bodies, with more advanced modeling entities like tires. There's a whole subset of Adams called Adams car that's widely used in the automotive industry as well. That is a, a template to build, automatically build car models and run standard maneuvers. So the, the biggest user of MSC Adams worldwide is the automotive industry. There's a particular module of Adams called Adams car, which provides you with templates for standard automotive subsystems and systems to automate the building of a car or a bus or a truck and automate the, the setup of standard maneuvers. So lane changes, cornering, braking, acceleration, going over bumps, all these kind of standard maneuvers so that you don't have to go through building at all and you can, you can generate the architecture of a car before you move into the CAD system. Outside the automotive industry, it's quite widely used in aerospace for things like control surface mechanisms for landing gear. We've got customers using it for nuclear handling capabilities, robotics, anything that moves really. Actually SOLIDWORKS Motion is a version of MSC Adams embedded into SOLIDWORKS. So within SOLIDWORKS you can do some simple mechanism design where it automatically builds your joints from your assembly constraints and you can do some simple acceleration velocity force torque type analysis. But if you exhaust the capability there and you want to do some more advanced things like integrating it with a control system, adding flexible components, you might have a tire model, which is quite a, a nonlinear behavior interacting with the road and you simply can't do it in SOLIDWORKS, You can export that Adams model, take it straight into Adams as a, shortcut and add in the extra fidelity entities that you need to build a much better representation of your part without having to go through the initial import of CAD and create every last joint interaction, contact everything cause it's all come through from your SOLIDWORKS. The main benefits from MSC Adams are being able to look at the behavior of your mechanism very, very early in the design cycle. So I like to think of it as the, the virtual product development process as a, V where you start off at the top of the, the left hand V and you're looking at the, the topology of your structure. So you are making decisions about, for example, in a car, what are the hard points for the suspension? Where's the center of gravity? How does the effect of the center of gravity of the engine affect the cornering capability? So you're doing some really simple early simulation to give hard points and crucially loads to the design engineers so that when they go on to design the upright, the control arms, the suspension mounts, all those sort of things, they've got an idea of what the loads are so they can size their components appropriately. And then the real beauty of Adams is you can take those component models via Nastran back into your original topology model to augment it with flexibility to get the effects of design decisions included in the behavior, but also load histories and stress histories to predict durability, life cycles. Reasons to use Adams is it has the flexibility to shadow your entire virtual product development process. So it starts early on just establishing the hard points and the key locations and the key behaviors of your, structure. It generates the loads that your design engineers need to size and define components, but then lets you take those component representations as a finite element model back in to augment your original simple model to increase the fidelity, predict load histories, predict stress histories, and give you that understanding of your structure before you start making prototypes or going into production. Getting started with Adams is really very simple. A lot of simulation packages, if something doesn't work, you get a very esoteric warning message or error message with Adams. If you haven't done it right, it becomes very visually obvious, the mistake you've made when you press go and run the analysis, it's the one of the few packages I'm happy to hand over to a, to a prospect to have a play with if you like to get started on their own. The documentation is brilliant. There is a wealth of material online for all sorts of different applications of Adams and we support that with the technology transfer that we do to, to understand the customer's particular requirements and deliver them example models to, to base their learning around.