History
Founded 1998 as a spin-off company of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) by:
Dr. Roger Baud
Dr. Albert H. Widmann
Prof. Dr. Andrei A. Gusev
Prof. Dr. Ulrich W. Suter
(on the picture from left to right)
MatSim – History Highlights
1998 20. May: Establishment of the MatSim GmbH with registered address
in Bassersdorf, Switzerland
Registration of the label name „MatSim" with the
Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Opening of the Zurich office at Bluntschlisteig1, a Zurich villa of the
year 1927 with up-to-date technical infrastructure
1999 Completion of the software package Palmyra with Elasto Mechanical
Solver
Sale of the 1st software license to a US customer
Orders of several customers for computation based on beta versions
Various technical publications in business and technical magazines (main
slogan: "Revolution in the Material Design"
Award "Technology Location Switzerland" (initiative of the State
Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO)
Large scale presence in printed media (10 publications)
Launch of http://matsim.comhttp://matsim.com<//a>
2000 Palmyra version 1.5 with extended Diagram and Laplace Solver
Sale of software licenses to European cumstomers and various
Universities research faculties
Presence at the Hanover Fair with „Technology Location Switzerland “
Participation to „the Swiss Bonding “(International Symposium on
Adhesives)
Participation in CADFEM user meeting in Germany and Switzerland
Specialized publications (3)
2001 Palmyra version 2.0 with interface to the FEM software Ansys
Sale of software licenses to US Government Agency
Presence to the CeBIT with CADFEM
Palmyra Information stage with CADFEM in CH and D (3x)
Own road show in Boston, the USA in „the Swiss House for Advanced
Research and Education" Specialized publications (3)
2002 Palmyra version 2.2 with interface to the FEM software Abacus
Admission into the Technology network Alliance AG
Computation projects with European customers
Presence to the CeBIT with CADFEM
Specialized publications (5)
2003 Palmyra version 2.4 with interface to MesoDyn of Accelrys
Sale of Palmyra licenses to various German companies
Participation in the research project "Nano Mmaterial", a project of
The innovation promotion agency CTI of the Federal Department of
Economic Affairs
Specialized publications (2)
2004 Sale of the Palmyra component "GridMorph" to Accelrys Inc.,
who is offering the product under their own name "Mesoprop" as an
addition of their own „Mesodyn “
Palmyra version 2.5 (without GridMorph) with ePalmyra support
ePalmyra licenses for international customers
Specialized publications (5)
2005 Software Gridder 1.0 morphologies arbitrary with hex Mesh for
computation
Sale of Gridder to a large Germany based Pharmaceutical company
Participation in the project "Apolynaire" (Performance Improvement of
Polymer based Prototype by NanofIllers Reinformcement) of the SUPSI
(Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana)
Participation in the research project Multimatdesign within the FP6
with 9 partners:
"Computer aided molecular design of multifunctional materials with
controlled permeabilty properties". A research project supported by
the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme and
contributing to the implementation of the NMP programme
2006 Sale of various software licences to Universities research establishments
Focus on the European Commission research program "Multimat Design"
and "Apolynaire" program
2007 Focus on the European Commission research program "Multimat Design”
2008 Focus on the "Multimat Design"
2009 Realignment of the entire software portfolio