MSC Software is a provider of mechanical computer-aided engineering (MCAE) software solutions. The company's MCAE solutions are intended to allow the design-to-manufacture team greater freedom to innovate design concepts, optimize complex solutions and exploit materials as a design variable. Principal software products include MSC.Nastran, MSC.Patran, MSC.MARC, MSC.Dytran and the MSC.Working Model product family. MSC also provides strategic consulting services by partnering with customers to improve the integration and implementation of their MCAE technologies.