ESI Group is a world-leading supplier and a pioneer of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account realistic materials physics.

Profile

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 e66M in 2006, employs over 600 high-level specialists worldwide covering more than 30 countries.

ESI Group corporate vision: Enable the Virtual Product Design / Simulation Based Design paradigm shift

The company is set to build a decisive strategic advantage in the area of reengineering industrial design and manufacturing processes by digital simulation in order to speed up change over to Simulation Based Design (SBD) for Product Virtual Development (VPD) within the overall major trend of PLM.

Innovation through ‘Realistic’ simulation

Based on this vision, ESI Group aims to provide ‘realistic’ simulation solutions with best-in-class multi-physics modeling for our customers’ ‘Jobs-to-be-Done’. These simulation solutions are offered in an open environment compatible with our customers’ present and future best practices, creating a full MCAE Enterprise solution for Design, Manufacturing and System Integration, supported by a wide ranging offer of engineering services. Providing these simulation solutions will also stimulate customer innovation while sharing Technological R&D knowledge and proving industrial benefits of virtual prototyping, which will allow them to launch innovative industrial products.

The 3 solution steps

1G: ‘Realistic’ simulation software products per type of virtual test, proven within given circumstances & limits of reliability, with dedicated & coherent solver and user environments
2G: Proven simulation software solutions, linking several 1G steps, to provide integrated value chains to predict design and testing variation effects on product performance and/or fabrication processes per selected ‘Job-to-be-Done’
3G: Proven best practice, Process Management and customized System Integration for ‘Simulation Based Design’

The Service strategy complementary to the software product strategy

ESI Group’s strategy fulfils industry’s demand for lower costs and shorter lead times. The company offers a complete range of products and services which drive innovation through promotion and adoption of ‘Realistic Simulation’. ESI Group aims to become the ‘Enabler’ of “Simulation Based Design”.
ESI Group services covers specific expertise through R&D, Methodology, customization, production or on-demand projects, as well as training, academic and support services.

ESI Group offer is dedicated to 3 major industrial sectors:

Transportation (Automotive, Railway, Aircraft)

ESI Group offers a set of dedicated solutions for the transportation industry in the following fields:

• Vehicule crash worthiness and occupant safety.
  
• Body-in-white: simulation of stamping, casting and welding fabricating processes of a vehicle body.
  
• Body-with-trims: simulation of interior vehicle manufacturing and prototyping.
  
• Comfort, noise and vibrations: simulation of acoustics and thermal comfort of a vehicle.
  
• Engine and powertrain dynamics. Interactions of the vehicle with its usage environment (air, water, electromagnetic waves, ...).

Manufacturing industries and Energy

Addressing transformation industries, energy and heavy industry, ESI Group solutions answer various simulation needs such as:

• Manufacturing processes of metallic, plastic or composite parts.
  
• Design and optimization of assemblies, including simulation of their performance within their usage environment.
  
• Simulation of physical and chemical interactions involved by industrial processes such as plasma for semiconductor reactors production.

Electronic components, Defense, Space industries

Products and Services diversification allows to offer solutions in domains like:

• Aircraft and space industries: design and optimization of air flows.
  
• Defense: simulation of complex physical phenomena occurring during aerodynamics operations with moving bodies such as missile launch, seat ejection, …
  
• Micromachines or Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), microelectronics assemblies and nanotechnologies for biology
  and telecommunication applications.
  

Customers

• Transportation (Automotive, Railway, ...)

Allied Signal, Alstom, Audi, Autoliv, BMW, Bombardier, Breed, Bridgestone, Daewoo, Daihatsu, DaimlerChrysler, Delphi, Faurecia, Ford, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Isuzu, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Porsche, PSA, Renault, Renault-
Samsung, Seat, Skoda, Subaru, Takata, Toyota, TRW, Valeo, Visteon, VW…

• Manufacturing industries and Energy

Air Liquide, Alcan, Alcoa, Arcelor, AREVA, BALLARD Power System, CEA, CORUS, EDF, GDF, GE, Hitachi, John Deere, KOBELCO, LG, Nippon Steel, ONET, Posco, Serco, Whirlpool…

• Electronic components, Defense, Space industries and Aeronautics

Airbus Industries, Air Force Research Lab, Bell Helicopter, Boeing, DGA, EADS, ESA-ESTEC, Indian Air Force, Israeli Aircraft Industries, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, LG Electronics, Lockheed Martin, Martin Baker, NASA, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Parker Hannifin, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, Thales, Tokyo Electron Limited, Toshiba Corp., US Navy…

Key metrics

Listed on compartment C of the Eurolist by Euronext Paris
ISIN FR 0004110310 - FTSE 977- Bloomberg ESI FP - Reuters ESIG.LN.
As ESI Group development is based on continuous innovation, the Group is qualified as “innovative company” by OSEO Anvar.

Management

• Doctor Alain de ROUVRAY

Company founder and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

• Doctor Vincent CHAILLOU

President and Chief Operating Officer for Product Operations

• Doctor Lech Tomasz KISIELEWICZ

Vice President for Global Projects and Engineering Services

• Eric MÜLLER-BORLE

Chief Financial Officer

• Laurence BLANCHARD

Human Resources Director