If you want to conduct finite element analysis, there's a good chance you'll need to contract with a third party for FEA services. When clients and FEA consulting companies are setting up a project, two of the biggest factors you need to consider are scale and processing power. Folks preparing for projects need to understand how scale and processing power influence the following issues: Time, Performance, and Money The main problem you'll see as you scale up and eat processing power on a project is how everything will take more time.