Paris, France – August 25, 2009 – ESI Group (ISINFR0004110310), a pioneer and world-leading supplier of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes, announced today the opening of its new training center in Bologna, Italy - where ESI Italia is located, in the northern part of the country. The 2009 Italian schedule has thus been added to the training catalogue available online at: http://www.esi-group.com/services/training.

The expansion of ESI training services in Southern Europe confirms the company’s commitment to provide world-class training courses, designed and taught by expert consulting and support engineers, offering flexible agendas, duration, and location. Indeed, hundreds of professional training courses are offered by ESI subsidiaries worldwide, spanning 12 countries and four continents to provide understanding, basic or advanced knowledge about ESI’s solutions to support companies’ needs for performance and innovation.

With over thirty-five years of expertise in software application training, ESI’s offering encompasses classroom, client-site and distance learning to allow companies shorten their time-to-market thanks to End-to-End Virtual Prototyping solutions. Combining lectures, question and answer with the instructor with demos and hands-on sessions, ESI software training courses are one of the best ways for participants to acquire a good understanding of all features and capabilities of the software for immediate application. The class sizes are kept small to ensure that customers have adequate attention and time is set aside to work on their particular problems. Participants are also often asked to send their own cases in advance.

What our customers say about our training courses worldwide:
“Our unique application of PAM-STAMP 2G in a research environment for the aerospace sector requires both rapid and tailored support”, said Dr. Alan Leacock, Advanced Metal Forming Research (AMFoR) Group. “The ESI team has provided structured courses tailored to meet our specific research needs and an exceptional level of support essential to our developing needs”.

Mr. Pundan Kumar Singh at Renault-Nissan stated that “PAM-CRASH training with ESI was quite exemplary and builds a strong foundation for a career in CAE”.
“I am practicing PAM-CRASH also with models sample files. It is quite easy after our last interaction. I have also started reading the help based on contacts and materials. I am discovering new things. My PAM-CRASH training was the most wonderful interaction I had in the last few years. I again thank you for that” added Mr. Pundan Kumar Singh, Renault-Nissan.

“The Pedestrian Impactors training course was based on IKCO demands and a planning of the course was arranged based on our discussion, all the contents were successfully presented according our requirements, the training was efficient” said Mr. Majid Varedi, Iran Khodro Industrial Group, Iran.

Training services help industry leaders overcome industrial challenges by updating engineers on software innovation while continuously expanding their skills for ever-optimized productivity and shorter computation times.

Read more customer testimonials and find out more about ESI training offering at: http://www.esi-group.com/services/training
For any further information, please contact training@esi-group.com.

About ESI Group
ESI is a world-leading supplier and pioneer of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials. ESI 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 to evaluate the environment’s impact on product performance. ESI’s products represent a unique collaborative and open environment for Simulation-Based Design, enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a continuous and collaborative manner while eliminating the need for physical prototypes during product development. The company employs over 750 high-level specialists worldwide covering more than 30 countries. ESI Group is listed in compartment C of NYSE Euronext Paris. For further information, visit www.esi-group.com.

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