AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL: An Acquisition That Brings Integrated Chemistry Modeling of Soft Materials to SIEMENS

Siemens Digital Industries continues to build up the sub-PLM capabilities in the Xcelerator portfolio. This time with an interesting acquisition on the simulation side. The company has signed an agreement to acquire Culgi, developers of solutions for chemical modeling and calculations, with a focus on multi-scale simulations in the process industrial area. But the truly fruitful step in this deal comes when Siemens integrates the specialties of the Culgi software with the Simcenter platform and the Xcelerator portfolio. With expanded functions in these environments, Siemens will be the first on the market to offer platform-integrated capabilities of this magnitude. Linking Culgi to the Simcenter portfolio will give process engineers the opportunity to build more comprehensive digital twins, and the ability to combine modeling of materials in micro, meso and macro scale. But what is the value of this?