Paris, France, April 30, 2007 - ESI Group’s Vibro-Acoustic Users Conference (VAUC 2007) will be held at the Hilton Hotel on June 12-13, 2007 in Cologne, Germany. This second vibro-acoustic users’ conference represents a unique opportunity for technical exchange among vibro-acoustic practitioners, researchers and application experts.  During this 2-day event, attendees will have the opportunity to hear papers from major industry professionals and will hear about the latest in vibro-acoustic software and simulation methods.

Noise and vibration quality is a critical factor in the design of a wide range of products, from automobiles and aircraft to consumer appliances. Vibro-Acoustic problems are frequently left until prototypes are built and tested, late in the design process, and after significant costs have been expended. The VAUC 2007 is your chance to see how virtual prototyping solutions reduce the need for costly laboratory testing, speed up the product development process and minimize the production cost of noise and vibration control materials and treatments. Among the speakers, the VAUC 2007 will feature vibro-acoustic professionals from a wide cross-section of industries including Volkswagen AG, Faurecia, Alcatel Alenia Space Italia S.p.a, CNES, and many others.

Not only will vibro-acoustic users gather to hear and share industrial experiences, participants will also learn on the second day about the latest VA One software developments by means of a “hands-on” training session supervised by the ESI VA Support Group, where participants will receive a license of VA One for use on their own computer. VA One is the evolution of the AutoSEA2 and RAYON software, and combines state of the art FEA (Finite Element Analysis), BEM (Boundary Elements Method) and SEA (Statistical Energy Analysis) solvers in one easy-to-use environment for vibro-acoustic analysis and design.

The VAUC 2007 is the event you must attend this year to learn, share and discover new methods for vibro-acoustic simulation analysis and design.

Don’t waste time, register now at www.esi-group.com/VAUC2007/registration.html!

We look forward to seeing you in Cologne, Germany on June 12-13, 2007.

All details can be found at http://www.esi-group.com/VAUC2007/index_html

Or contact Isabelle Girard at isabelle.girard@esi-group.com.

About ESI Group

ESI Group is a world-leading supplier, and a pioneer of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials. ESI Group has developed an extensive suite of coherent, industry oriented applications to realistically simulate a product’s behavior during testing, to fine-tune manufacturing processes in accordance with desired product performance, and evaluate the environment’s impact on product performance. ESI Group’s products, which have a proven track record in manufacturing and have been combined in multi-trade value chains, represent a unique collaborative and open virtual engineering solution known as the Virtual Try-Out Space (VTOS), enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a continuous and collaborative manner. This integrated protocol allows all the company’s solutions to work with each other and with applications developed by independent software vendors. By significantly reducing costs and development lead times and enabling product/process synergies, VTOS solutions offer major competitive advantage by progressively eliminating the need for physical prototypes during product development. The company generated sales of €66m in 2006, employs over 600 high-level specialists worldwide covering more than 30 countries. ESI Group is listed in Eurolist compartment C of Euronext Paris. For further information, visit www.esi-group.com.

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