Major software house Century Research Center Ltd has begun marketing Surfes, a general-purpose structural analysis package developed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries that runs on DEC, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems and Sony workstations: Surfes brings together in one package functions for stress analysis of planar, solid and three dimensional models and is claimed to reduce analysis time by a factor of 10; it sells for between $42,300 and $63,000 and CRC is looking to sell 30 copies.
