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On-demand available until November 20th 2023
The keynote and panel discussion at ESI Live 2023 will take the audience on a journey through today's deep tech landscape, where AI unlocks the depth of data, and where we explore the synergies and potential of human-machine collaboration. How are emerging and cutting-edge technologies impacting various industries today? What new doors does this open? How can we remain adaptable and be sure to invest in the right technologies, talent, and processes to make the most of the simulation-driven paradigm? Join us for this thought-provoking round table discussion.
Emmanuel Leroy
Executive Vice-President, Chief Product & Technology Officer, ESI Group
Mike Russell
Head of Customer Success, ESI Group
Mickey McManus
Senior advisor and leadership coach at BCG & research fellow emeritus at Autodesk’s Office of the CTO
Olfa Zorgati
CEO
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Haley Edmonds
Bilingual journalist and moderator
The move towards virtual testing for vehicle homologation has started. Pedestrian protection cases are already being addressed, and it will be introduced soon for protocols like far-side impact testing. Further regulations will follow before long.
In this session, we look at the future of virtual homologation, and methods evolving to address this requirement. We will focus on one scenario likely to be considered for future inclusion: pre-crash conditions with automated braking and steering. We will show how, to meet this need, system and finite element simulations can be combined to provide realistic behavior when braking with ABS during a crash.
Dr. Corina Klug
TU Graz
Pierre Culiere
ESI
Torsten Blochwitz
ESI
In the drive towards ever safer roads, airbags have become an increasingly critical focus of vehicle safety. With that elevated focus comes ever more complexity which brings with it increasing difficulty in airbag development.
As airbag sophistication has increased, so has the technology required to realistically simulate and predict their deployment behaviour, and other design elements, such as how they should be folded.
Discover the latest technologies and methods available to address this need, and how ESI's solutions in this area have evolved to meet the demands of airbag development teams today.
Alain Trameçon
ESI
Dr. Lars Aschenbrenner
Volkswagen
Jean-Christophe Allain
ESI
Crash and safety simulation today demands ever more load cases, to address expanding regulations, on an increasing number of vehicle variants. This has pushed the need for efficiency greater than ever before, to the point where simulation process automation has become essential.
Automation of simulation workflows significantly reduces manual effort, decreasing overall costs and delivery times. From model preparation to quality checking, there are many automation opportunities on offer to help you achieve much faster time to results.
This session will provide you with real-life customer examples, illustrating simulation process automation in action.
Jean-Christophe Allain
ESI
Advances in the Boundary Element Method (BEM) have pushed the performance of solving larger and larger models in a computationally efficient manner to the forefront of the simulation method. This presentation goes over the different BEM solvers available with VA One, their characteristics, benefits, and limitations. The newly implemented H-Matrix BEM solver offers considerable solution time and memory reduction for the largest models. In this presentation, a detailed validation case of the H-Matrix BEM solver for a space habitat comparing standard BEM vs H-Matrix BEM is presented. Computational performance and results accuracy are evaluated and compared.
Alexis Castel
ESI
In electric vehicles the absence of the internal combustion engine has decreased the exterior noise emitted affecting vulnerable road users’ safety, especially at speeds below 30km/h. Several regulations in different countries are challenging automotive manufacturers in the design of warning sound systems to ensure the safety of vulnerable road users while conveying the proper brand image.
This session will show how boundary elements and ray tracing are two solutions that are helping automotive engineers in the design and optimization of Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems.
Massimiliano Calloni
ESI
Electric Motor noise presents a unique challenge for acoustic designers working to optimize noise levels for interior and exterior noise of electric vehicles.
To improve acoustics, structural modifications such as ribs or heavy layers can be applied to the motor casing, or electromagnetic forces can be reduced. However, countermeasures often shift the problem to a different frequency range.
An effective solution involves the use of 3D multilayer poroelastic material (PEM) directly coupled to the motor casing.
In this session you will see how combining FEM, BEM and PEM approaches can be used to predict the insertion loss of the poroelastic encapsulation solution for electric motors.
Willem Van Hal
ESI
The cosmetic quality of cars is playing a key aspect in the buyers overall evaluation of car quality. And with the increase in new vehicle designs and materials, it has become more and more crucial to assess early if the cosmetic quality of a stamped part will be at a satisfactory level to allow the various teams to engage as early as possible the required action plans to secure this aspect, without delaying the start of production and the cost of the stamp engineering and try-out actions.
This session will explore how a forming simulation solution, coupled with the Artificial Intelligence abilities allows customers to evaluate early the cosmetic quality of the stamped parts, or the entire body of a car.
Frédéric Guillon
ESI
Mark Vrolijk
ESI on behalf of AUTAZA
Thermal and Mechanical Joining involve complex interactions between chemical, thermal, metallurgical, and mechanical phenomena. These interactions generate residual stresses and distortions in a welded structure, which significantly affect its lifecycle performance.
Computer-aided assessment of joining fabrication can significantly enhance the overall performance, quality, and service life of the structure.
In this session you will learn how engineers can virtually manufacture, assemble and test body & chassis components, control the tolerances, secure the process feasibility, and improve welded structures performance.
Yannick Vincent
ESI
Christian Sontia-Nangue
Renault
Mobility sector has been facing an in-depth transformation with its electrification. New materials, new designs and light weighting are among the main drivers for casting part manufacturers.
To succeed to produce efficiently a free-defect casting component, it is fundamental to make the right decisions in the very early stages of a design cycle to avoid bad design, poor cast component quality or late deliveries.
This session will show how engineers can virtually assess the castability of automotive components, challenge designs and finally check the component quality to produce premium quality castings in an optimal manufacturing cycle time.
Loïc Calba
ESI
Pavel Sotka
Skoda
Developing new aircraft had conventionally required the fabrication and construction of physical mock-up environments to validate the processes and methods applied by "industrial athletes" to assemble, operate, and service the aircraft of the future. However, physical piloting of processes to build and maintain those aircraft places Aircraft Technicians at risk to discover if risks exist.
This session will share how virtual and extended reality methods are applied to keep "industrial athletes" safe and productive when assembling, operating, and maintaining the future of flight.
Eric Kam
ESI
Leading enterprises seek to extend their ability to validate product packaging and process planning enterprise-wide, beyond the limits of Physical Master build pilot facilties. By breaking their reliance on physical master builds during product development, OEMs can bring innovative products to market without needing to invest in fabricating and constructing physical master builds. They avoid deferring decisions until physical products are available and reduce risk that decisions are made too late delays market introduction.
In this session we will learn what leads heavy machinery enterprises like Volvo to deploy collaborative Virtual Workspaces, to augment their master build processes with digital master builds.
Marc Niemann
ESI
Steve Horton
Volvo Group Trucks
Digital transformation within various industries means a necessary digitalization of physical validation of assembly processes, removing the requirement for physical prototypes or process-piloting environments in early stages or product development.
Human-centric assembly process validation of 2-dimenensionally elastic components is one of the challenging obstacles organizations have to overcome when holistically simulating product integration and assembly processes.
In this session, you will see the new next-generation real-time simulation capability for elastic parts and components, along with an overview of customer use-cases and the benefits that the advanced simulation generates for organizations.
André Rückert
ESI
Dr. Sibylle Steck
Mercedes Benz
Designing complex products first time right is a challenge, that should be addressed from the very beginning. Any evolution or change in any development stage - requirements, system architecture, physical and logical behavior, and testing - ideally must be assessed with respect to its impact on the final product.
This requires the creation of a digital thread that connects all the stages. Through this, as well as continuous validation through virtual test campaigns, flaws are discovered early in the process and can be fixed well in time.
This session will show you how the process can be managed, and how the integrated virtual testing is automated.
Marcel Gottschall
ESI
Johan Cederbladh
Volvo Group
The growing need for accurate results has dramatically increased crash simulation model sizes. This restricts the number of high-fidelity simulation runs achievable, limiting exploration of multiple design variables to optimize a vehicle.
The typical number of high-fidelity FE runs for classical optimization is triple the number of parameters, which proves costly. Advanced reduced order modelling, however, only needs a few runs to enable fast parametric design space exploration, guiding engineers to an optimal design.
In this session we introduce you to this concept, and how it can overcome model size restrictions, helping you to affordably optimize vehicle performance and safety.
Gavin England
ESI
Fatima Daim
ESI
The “real-time” response of a system, such as a welding station, to its process parameters is made possible today using parametric models called reduced order models that are driven by intelligent machine learning technology.
These reduced order models are created from numerical design of experiments, and can be enriched with experimental design of experiments to improve the quality of the response, while considering phenomena that are not available in numerical models.
This session will present the “Hybrid Twin” advanced approach used on laser brazing within the AM2 project, as well as its potential application to in-line control of the process.
Anitha Mysore Nanjundaswamy Rao
ESI
Yannick Vincent
ESI
The keynote and panel discussion at ESI Live 2023 will take the audience on a journey through today's deep tech landscape, where AI unlocks the depth of data, and where we explore the synergies and potential of human-machine collaboration. How are emerging and cutting-edge technologies impacting various industries today? What new doors does this open? How can we remain adaptable and be sure to invest in the right technologies, talent, and processes to make the most of the simulation-driven paradigm? Join us for this thought-provoking round table discussion.
Cristel de Rouvray
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member, ESI Group
Emmanuel Leroy
Executive Vice-President, Chief Product & Technology Officer, ESI Group
Mike Russell
Head of Customer Success, ESI Group
Mickey McManus
Senior advisor and leadership coach at BCG & research fellow emeritus at Autodesk’s Office of the CTO
Olfa Zorgati
Deputy CEO
Haley Edmonds
Bilingual journalist and moderator
The move towards virtual testing for vehicle homologation has started. Pedestrian protection cases are already being addressed, and it will be introduced soon for protocols like far-side impact testing. Further regulations will follow before long.
In this session, we look at the future of virtual homologation, and methods evolving to address this requirement. We will focus on one scenario likely to be considered for future inclusion: pre-crash conditions with automated braking and steering. We will show how, to meet this need, system and finite element simulations can be combined to provide realistic behavior when braking with ABS during a crash.
Dr. Corina Klug
TU Graz
Pierre Culiere
ESI
Torsten Blochwitz
ESI
In the drive towards ever safer roads, airbags have become an increasingly critical focus of vehicle safety. With that elevated focus comes ever more complexity which brings with it increasing difficulty in airbag development.
As airbag sophistication has increased, so has the technology required to realistically simulate and predict their deployment behaviour, and other design elements, such as how they should be folded.
Discover the latest technologies and methods available to address this need, and how ESI's solutions in this area have evolved to meet the demands of airbag development teams today.
Alain Trameçon
ESI
Dr. Lars Aschenbrenner
Volkswagen
Jean-Christophe Allain
ESI
Crash and safety simulation today demands ever more load cases, to address expanding regulations, on an increasing number of vehicle variants. This has pushed the need for efficiency greater than ever before, to the point where simulation process automation has become essential.
Automation of simulation workflows significantly reduces manual effort, decreasing overall costs and delivery times. From model preparation to quality checking, there are many automation opportunities on offer to help you achieve much faster time to results.
This session will provide you with real-life customer examples, illustrating simulation process automation in action.
Jean-Christophe Allain
ESI
Advances in the Boundary Element Method (BEM) have pushed the performance of solving larger and larger models in a computationally efficient manner to the forefront of the simulation method. This presentation goes over the different BEM solvers available with VA One, their characteristics, benefits, and limitations. The newly implemented H-Matrix BEM solver offers considerable solution time and memory reduction for the largest models. In this presentation, a detailed validation case of the H-Matrix BEM solver for a space habitat comparing standard BEM vs H-Matrix BEM is presented. Computational performance and results accuracy are evaluated and compared.
Alexis Castel
ESI
In electric vehicles the absence of the internal combustion engine has decreased the exterior noise emitted affecting vulnerable road users’ safety, especially at speeds below 30km/h. Several regulations in different countries are challenging automotive manufacturers in the design of warning sound systems to ensure the safety of vulnerable road users while conveying the proper brand image.
This session will show how boundary elements and ray tracing are two solutions that are helping automotive engineers in the design and optimization of Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems.
Massimiliano Calloni
ESI
Electric Motor noise presents a unique challenge for acoustic designers working to optimize noise levels for interior and exterior noise of electric vehicles.
To improve acoustics, structural modifications such as ribs or heavy layers can be applied to the motor casing, or electromagnetic forces can be reduced. However, countermeasures often shift the problem to a different frequency range.
An effective solution involves the use of 3D multilayer poroelastic material (PEM) directly coupled to the motor casing.
In this session you will see how combining FEM, BEM and PEM approaches can be used to predict the insertion loss of the poroelastic encapsulation solution for electric motors.
Willem Van Hal
ESI
The cosmetic quality of cars is playing a key aspect in the buyers overall evaluation of car quality. And with the increase in new vehicle designs and materials, it has become more and more crucial to assess early if the cosmetic quality of a stamped part will be at a satisfactory level to allow the various teams to engage as early as possible the required action plans to secure this aspect, without delaying the start of production and the cost of the stamp engineering and try-out actions.
This session will explore how a forming simulation solution, coupled with the Artificial Intelligence abilities allows customers to evaluate early the cosmetic quality of the stamped parts, or the entire body of a car.
Frédéric Guillon
ESI
Mark Vrolijk
ESI on behalf of AUTAZA
Thermal and Mechanical Joining involve complex interactions between chemical, thermal, metallurgical, and mechanical phenomena. These interactions generate residual stresses and distortions in a welded structure, which significantly affect its lifecycle performance.
Computer-aided assessment of joining fabrication can significantly enhance the overall performance, quality, and service life of the structure.
In this session you will learn how engineers can virtually manufacture, assemble and test body & chassis components, control the tolerances, secure the process feasibility, and improve welded structures performance.
Yannick Vincent
ESI
Christian Sontia-Nangue
Renault
Mobility sector has been facing an in-depth transformation with its electrification. New materials, new designs and light weighting are among the main drivers for casting part manufacturers.
To succeed to produce efficiently a free-defect casting component, it is fundamental to make the right decisions in the very early stages of a design cycle to avoid bad design, poor cast component quality or late deliveries.
This session will show how engineers can virtually assess the castability of automotive components, challenge designs and finally check the component quality to produce premium quality castings in an optimal manufacturing cycle time.
Loïc Calba
ESI
Pavel Sotka
Skoda
Developing new aircraft had conventionally required the fabrication and construction of physical mock-up environments to validate the processes and methods applied by "industrial athletes" to assemble, operate, and service the aircraft of the future. However, physical piloting of processes to build and maintain those aircraft places Aircraft Technicians at risk to discover if risks exist.
This session will share how virtual and extended reality methods are applied to keep "industrial athletes" safe and productive when assembling, operating, and maintaining the future of flight.
Eric Kam
ESI
Leading enterprises seek to extend their ability to validate product packaging and process planning enterprise-wide, beyond the limits of Physical Master build pilot facilties. By breaking their reliance on physical master builds during product development, OEMs can bring innovative products to market without needing to invest in fabricating and constructing physical master builds. They avoid deferring decisions until physical products are available and reduce risk that decisions are made too late delays market introduction.
In this session we will learn what leads heavy machinery enterprises like Volvo to deploy collaborative Virtual Workspaces, to augment their master build processes with digital master builds.
Marc Niemann
ESI
Steve Horton
Volvo Group Trucks
Digital transformation within various industries means a necessary digitalization of physical validation of assembly processes, removing the requirement for physical prototypes or process-piloting environments in early stages or product development.
Human-centric assembly process validation of 2-dimenensionally elastic components is one of the challenging obstacles organizations have to overcome when holistically simulating product integration and assembly processes.
In this session, you will see the new next-generation real-time simulation capability for elastic parts and components, along with an overview of customer use-cases and the benefits that the advanced simulation generates for organizations.
André Rückert
ESI
Dr. Sibylle Steck
Mercedes Benz
Designing complex products first time right is a challenge, that should be addressed from the very beginning. Any evolution or change in any development stage - requirements, system architecture, physical and logical behavior, and testing - ideally must be assessed with respect to its impact on the final product.
This requires the creation of a digital thread that connects all the stages. Through this, as well as continuous validation through virtual test campaigns, flaws are discovered early in the process and can be fixed well in time.
This session will show you how the process can be managed, and how the integrated virtual testing is automated.
Marcel Gottschall
ESI
Johan Cederbladh
Volvo Group
The growing need for accurate results has dramatically increased crash simulation model sizes. This restricts the number of high-fidelity simulation runs achievable, limiting exploration of multiple design variables to optimize a vehicle.
The typical number of high-fidelity FE runs for classical optimization is triple the number of parameters, which proves costly. Advanced reduced order modelling, however, only needs a few runs to enable fast parametric design space exploration, guiding engineers to an optimal design.
In this session we introduce you to this concept, and how it can overcome model size restrictions, helping you to affordably optimize vehicle performance and safety.
Gavin England
ESI
Fatima Daim
ESI
The “real-time” response of a system, such as a welding station, to its process parameters is made possible today using parametric models called reduced order models that are driven by intelligent machine learning technology.
These reduced order models are created from numerical design of experiments, and can be enriched with experimental design of experiments to improve the quality of the response, while considering phenomena that are not available in numerical models.
This session will present the “Hybrid Twin” advanced approach used on laser brazing within the AM2 project, as well as its potential application to in-line control of the process.
Anitha Mysore Nanjundaswamy Rao
ESI
Yannick Vincent
ESI
At ESI, we have always been passionate about taking bold steps to create a better world. As pioneers of a virtual-first approach to solving the most complex and critical problems with simulation, we continue to lead the way as we guide our customers along their journey to digital transformation. ESI provides reliable and customized solutions anchored on predictive physics modeling and virtual prototyping expertise. Our predictive, real-time, immersive physics-powered simulation solutions, combined with our extensive talent and intellectual property, help our clients save valuable time, resources, and money by avoiding costly and limited physical testing. Our clients rely on us to assist them in building a safer, cleaner, and more productive world. We take that trust seriously and do everything we can to ensure that we support them at every milestone along the way. By staying ahead of the curve, and embracing innovation and sustainability without compromise, it drives us to be the best we can be
