VisualDSS an enabler of Simulation Based Design

Paris, May 28, 2007 – ESI Group (ESIN FR0004110310), pioneer and world leading provider of digital simulation software, based on the physics of materials, announce the availability of VisualDSS, its End-to-End Decision Support System for CAE.  VisualDSS is an open multi-domain environment compatible with customers’ present and future best practices which enables companies to build and manage simulation models for multi-domain usage, to automate processes & workflow, to manage simulation content & data and to provide knowledge based decision support and automated reporting.

Nowadays, manufacturers around the world improve their use of virtual prototyping. Simulation data volume is increasing considerably, its traceability and easy reuse become crucial. Simulation Based Design is aiming to become the way to designing right on the first time by orienting decisions early in the product development process. VisualDSS capabilities include unique and patented ways of building and maintaining the bidirectional link between CAD data stored in PLM systems and simulation domains. It allows transferring design and engineering modifications to the extended multi-domain team, thus enabling data traceability throughout the development process and more.

VisualDSS features also a data persistency environment, which gathers the simulation data from the different applications used during the whole simulation lifecycle. It enables the capture, storage and reuse of the enterprise knowledge and best practices. VisualDSS is based upon IBM DB2 Content Manager technology which provides the market for years with technical and security features developed and proven in other business areas. Its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) authorizes flexible enterprise deployment, by integrating easily within the IT and data architecture of every company. It gives the ability to link easily to standard or corporate databases or PLM systems.

“VisualDSS is a major breakthrough compared to the existing practices on the market. I’m confident that it will bring a major advantage to our customers in terms of performance improvement, quality and multi-domain simulations implementation” says Haluk Menderes, Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing Worldwide Operations ESI Group

VisualDSS improves effectiveness of business productivity and allows engineers to automate repetitive and cumbersome tasks in their Simulation Based Design process. Customers can capitalize, share and deploy their best practices within their extended ecosystem, taking advantage of the common multi-domain compute model and the openness of the solution to third party applications.

VisualDSS addresses small, medium and large companies in ESI Group’s traditional markets such as automotive, aerospace, defense, energy, heavy industry, consumer goods, etc.

For more information please contact either your ESI Group representative or visit www.esi-group.com.

About ESI Group

ESI Group is a world-leading supplier, and a pioneer of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials. 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 €66m in 2006, employs over 600 high-level specialists worldwide covering more than 30 countries. ESI Group is listed in Eurolist compartment C of Euronext Paris. For further information, visit www.esi-group.com.

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