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BRENTWOOD, Tenn., June 13, 2018 –VEXTEC’s predictive VPS-MICRO® software has been applied to test structural, mechanical and electronic products in automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and medical device industries for nearly 20 years.  The company’s clients, which include giants like American Airlines and the US Air Force and Navy, experience significant reductions in testing cost and time-to-market. Singapore’s Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC) is the latest user of VPS-MICRO.  Several leading manufacturers are collaborating with VEXTEC engineers to develop advanced material modeling capabilities for Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes. This effort will help ensure that standard 3D-printing parameters are not only linked to material properties but also to fatigue and fracture performance, which are critical to product lifecycle management.

Traditional fatigue testing involves physically exposing manufactured parts to cyclic stress tests. Because there is inherent variation in materials’ microstructures, the same test must be repeated many times to have confidence in the results. This testing is expensive and time consuming, especially for AM which is known to have wide microstructural variability. VEXTEC’s VPS-MICRO technology leverages computational processing to simulate stress tests with virtual microstructures, performing the large number of required tests much more efficiently.

VPS-MICRO has long been successfully used for metallic parts produced by conventional methods: forging, casting and welding. With manufacturing rapidly embracing and turning toward 3-D printed parts, VEXTEC has correspondingly optimized its algorithms to address the unique challenges presented by additive manufacturing. VPS-MICRO is currently the only probabilistic microstructure fatigue simulation software for AM.

“While we are excited to be the first to offer analytics-based fatigue testing to the 3-D printing space, that’s not what we’re most proud of,” said VEXTEC’s Co-Founder and Chief Product Development Officer, Animesh Dey. “It’s our technology’s accuracy and low cost that is truly transformative for this industry.”

About VEXTEC

Founded in 2000, VEXTEC Corporation is the home of VPS-MICRO, a unique microstructural fatigue durability prediction software based on ICME (Integrated Computational Materials Engineering). This technology fills a gap in the existing capabilities provided by CAD/CAM, FEA, statistical modeling, and physical material and component testing, by effectively integrating them into a single computational processing framework. VEXTEC’s clients include leading multinationals in the aerospace, automotive, electronics, energy, heavy industry and medical device manufacturing sectors, as well as many federal government agencies. VEXTEC has received over $25 million in development funding from US Department of Defense Innovative Research programs, and has been granted seven patents related to its technology.

For more information, visit: http://vextec.com