"In the semiconductor industry, new technology and processes in your products can offer a significant competitive advantage. Unfortunately, testing and verification of wet wafer processing equipment and processes takes a significant amount of effort and resources. It is imperative to put forth our best effort in every part of the design cycle to get to market sooner. FLUENT allows us to pinpoint the optimal solution and avoid a lot of guess work. Thanks to FLUENT, we can also better interpret and understand results in comparison to test data."

"We routinely depend on FLUENT CFD software to select and optimize designs well before prototypes are built. In alleviating the need for iterative hardware builds, this streamlines the design process and thus, significantly reduces development costs and minimizes time-to-market."

"FLUENT is a very effective tool in our design-by-analysis process. The use of FLUENT software has improved our understanding of complex flow and heat transfer in our products, which would otherwise be difficult to determine and visualize. This insight minimizes our use of costly experimental prototypes. In a recent project, we easily saved over $10,000 in redesign costs by using FLUENT in the design process."

"FLUENT has been an instrumental tool in the product development of our consumer goods. This software has enabled us to visualize air flow patterns in our electronic hard disk drive applications that otherwise would have been very difficult to attain experimentally. Thus, using FLUENT as a design optimization tool has allowed us to increase the functionality of our disk drive filter devices by 50%."

"Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling has become an integral part of the design process at Novellus. By using FLUENT to model design concepts for new reactors, we are able to optimize designs before we ever have to cut one piece of metal. This reduces our risk, and decreases our time to market, at the same time providing a lower cost solution for our customers."

"We are using FIDAP to model complex heat transfer problems that arise during ultra-rapid heating of thin films. The FLUENT CFD code has proven to be extremely robust and flexible, allowing us to easily implement modifications to correctly model subtle, yet important, phenomena within our simulations. By using Fluent's software packages, we're benefiting from significant savings in experimental effort and cost, thereby accelerating our process development cycles."