Innovate with simulation

Fostering sustainable growth under the pressure of a global economy and time-to-market challenges obliges companies to manage simultaneously their network of business processes while maintaining a strict focus on product excellence and innovative solutions.

Industry now needs to move away from the traditional trial-and-error methodology, which places primary confidence in physical prototypes, and must embrace a new paradigm called Simulation-Based Design, more favorable to innovation and overall more effective and less expensive. Many decisions affecting the final design result from computer simulations of the model's physical properties. Physical prototypes are thus progressively replaced - not only because they are cost, time and energy consuming, but because a physical prototype cannot be used: in some situations, it cannot even exist!

Keeping pace with such needs, ESI Group's Virtual Try-Out Space is developing fast, prioritizing software reliability and support. ESI Group has further enhanced its product portfolio and capabilities through the strategic acquisition of EASi’s CAE software and its flagship products, EASi-CRASH/SAFE and EASI Process. And thanks to the recent acquisition of CFDRC’s CAE product division, new leading fluid dynamics software has been added to our product portfolio in the area of semiconductors, biotechnology, fuel cells, and MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems). New subsidiaries in India and China have been opened to answer market needs and growth. And most importantly, major new versions of our most prominent products have also been released (e.g. 2G solutions)..

Simulation-based design is no longer a futuristic methodology for early adopters: it does accelerate the introduction of new products, strengthening market competitiveness, and presents an opportunity not to be missed.

Alain de Rouvray
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer