Get it Right® with End-to-End Virtual Prototyping

The challenging context of this past year brought about changes along with opportunities for further innovation. For ESI and for our customers, these challenges revealed the true value of End-to-End Virtual Prototyping versus standard numerical simulation. Indeed, industrial needs to change and develop innovative products are at their highest and a necessity to remain globally competitive. To address this, End-to-End Virtual Prototyping is a most promising methodology meeting today’s imperatives for innovation.

What to expect from End-to-End Virtual Prototyping?

Effective End-to-End Virtual Prototyping endeavours to anticipate the surprises coming from tests made on real (hardware) prototypes by virtually fabricating, building and testing the product in coherent progressive stages: part by part, component per component and per assembly, and concurrently across multiple domains. A good Virtual Prototype enables at each step of the development cycle to test the performance, margins and robustness on the virtual model under assessment, in order to evaluate and correct, if needed, some critical aspects of the product design or fabrication. Its foundation is Virtual Manufacturing, which relies on a sharp knowledge of the physics of materials during manufacturing and assembly processes to define in a realistic way the “as built” product. Its quality and reliability depend on the rigorous and continuous control of the circumstances and limits of the modeling assumptions at each stage.

In some cases, the imperatives of innovation drive us to a design that goes beyond traditional and regulatory bounds, moving us to where industrial experience becomes insufficient: facing uncertain sizing margins, random robustness, and problematic validation of the new product. The Project Manager is then confronted with uncharted processes while being expected to develop and justify a trial plan for manufacturing and multi-domain performance to evaluate the safety margins and guarantee product robustness.

This is where End-to-End Virtual Prototyping finds its compelling justification: to meet this “high anxiety” associated with innovative design by providing a reliable methodology both progressive and economical. It enables product development teams to produce concurrently quality results: accurate, for the right cost and at the right time with impressive benefits.

Alain de Rouvray
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer