Pioneer and major actor in the field of digital simulation, ESI Group is a recognized world-leading provider in virtual prototyping solutions which enhance product design and performance, as well as manufacturing processes with the use of realistic material physics, to accelerate innovation through a single collaborative and open environment for “End-to-End Virtual Prototyping”.
2010
- ESI Group employs more than 750 high-level specialists worldwide. Headquartered in Paris (France), the company and its global network of agents provide sales and technical support to customers in more than 30 countries.
2009
- ESI Group expands into Tunisia with the creation of a ‘near-shore’ services division dedicated to high value-added projects and also strengthens its strategic partnership with the Tunisian firm Acoustica.
2008/2009
- ESI Group strengthens its position and opens a new subsidiary in Italy and in Brazil. ESI Group’s aim is to extend its worldwide presence to better help customers keep their international competitive edge.
2008
- Acquisition of Vdot™, a US software platform for lean process management allowing rapid, reliable decision-making by all actors of the PLM and specifically throughout the digital simulation process, enhancing project automation and completion.
- Acquisition of US services company Mindware Engineering Inc., a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) specialist aiming to supplement its high value-added services, essential component of ESI global offering.
2007
- Strategic Collaboration with ChengDu Aicraft Industry, a major Chinese aircraft manufacturer and global aviation industry partner for Aeronautic Composites Manufacturing Engineering, in their aircraft design and manufacturing engineering process.
- ESI Group confirms its quality commitment with the renewal of the ISO 9001:2000 certification.
- Launch of the European MARI Consortium (for Marine, Aero, Rail and Industrial structures) in order to establish VA One modeling guidelines.
2006
- Airbus adopts PAM-RTM for CATIA V5, a software program used to simulate the manufacturing of composite components formed by injection molding.
- Technological collaboration announcement with Intel in order to jointly develop enterprise leading solutions.
- With the signing of a strategic partnership to take over the Chinese-based company ATE Technology International’s activities, ESI targets both market diversification and a strengthening of its geographical presence.
- ESI Group is recognized as a European Technological Leader and picks up 2006 Frost & Sullivan award for its casting software ProCAST.
- With the acquisition of IPS International’s digital simulation services for engineering applications (CAE), as well as the intellectual property rights to their virtual human models “H-Models”, ESI complements its services offering, notably in production projects, in South Korea initially.
2005
- ESI releases breakthrough simulation technology for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization. PAM-FLOW™ Adjoint Solver cuts significantly the number of design iterations in CFD shape optimization on an automotive air duct.
- ESI launches PAM-VA One, the One Simulation Environment for Full-Frequency
Vibro-Acoustic Analysis. PAM-VA One has been described by industry professionals as the most important breakthrough in vibro-acoustics in the past twenty years. - ESI Group announces new industrial parallel version of its Finite Element foundry simulation software. ProCAST 2005 delivers unprecedented performance on Linux and UNIX clusters at a very competitive cost.
For any request (Images, Press Kit, Interview…), please contact:
Céline Gallerne
celine.gallerne@esi-group.com
Tel. : +33 (0)1 41 73 58 46
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