The CFD market is one that’s seeing a lot of action at the entry level – we’ve seen a number of start-ups come online in the last few months. “With CD-adapco, we’re acquiring an established technology leader that will allow us to supplement our world-class industry software portfolio and deliver on our strategy to further expand our digital enterprise portfolio.” “Simulation software is key to enabling customers to bring better products to the market faster and at less cost. Klaus Helmrich, member of the Managing Board of Siemens, commented that “As part of its Vision 2020, Siemens is acquiring CD-adapco and sharpening its focus on growth in digital business and expanding its portfolio in the area of industry software. Put alongside its other acquisitions in the last few years, such as LMS, this makes a lot of sense. Why so much? CD-adapco’s code is high-end, used heavily in the automotive, marine and aeropspace industries, exactly where Siemens PLM operates. Some changes at the top, following the passing of its founder and CEO last year, meant that the privately owned company was on the market – and Siemens stumped up the cash. Fluent and CFX got snapped up in pretty short order by Ansys, leaving just CD-adapco on the market. If you’d have looked back 10 years ago, CFD leaders were CD-adapco (with its Star-CCM products), Fluent and CFX. That’s quite a sum, particularly when you consider that CD-adapco’s revenue is around the $200 million mark – with some pretty healthy growth, it’s still a fair few old quid.ĬD-adapco is one of a very small number of vendors supplying specialised and highly respected codes in a number of industries, with its reputation built on its mastery of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). News in late last night took us by surprise – Siemens is intent on acquiring CD-Adapco for just a shade under $1 billion.Īccording to the press release, “Siemens and CD-adapco have entered into a stock purchase agreement for the acquisition of CD-adapco by Siemens.

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