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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.


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Céline Gallerne
celine.gallerne@esi-group.com
Tel. :    +33 (0)1 41 73 58 46  


 

Video interview of ESI Group Chairman & CEO Alain de Rouvray Windows Media Player
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Audio Interview of Vincent Chaillou directed by David Heller from MCADCafe.com
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