Can you describe briefly your main line of business?

The Comsol Group provides software solutions for multi-physics modelling and design, that is coupled field (structural, thermal, electromagnetic, fluid flow) analysis.

What is your best selling product and where do you ship it most?

Comsol Multiphysics, our base line modelling package is a best-seller. Main customers are R&D groups within industry and academia, national laboratories and to a growing extent design engineers in the industry. Main geographic markets are USA, Europe and Japan.

What is your roadmap from there?

We aim to increase the usage of our design and simulation products in the industry by improving and customising them for specific industrial applications such as electronics design. We are also moving towards the system level design area.

How do you differentiate from your competitors?

Our simulation technology is based on a unique built-in equation interpreter CAE user interface and its ability to model using partial differential equations (PDEs). I addition to using ready made formulations for the most common physics applications, a user can easily change or extend those formulations directly in the graphical user interface by adding/changing terms and expressions or by entering completely new equations.

Any strategic move planned for the future?

We are working towards a tighter integration with CAD packages both for mechanical CAD and electronics CAD.

What would make your life easier in this business?

As a provider of multi-physics solutions over a wide range of industrial and scientific fields we would benefit from common, open and universal standards in CAD (geometry) data. The same applies to material data and material models.