VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE
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Cash and Safety Simulation Software

Electric powertrains and autonomous driving have impacted the components and architectural structures of new vehicles. Because of these revolutionary modes of transportation, OEMs are required to ensure that vehicles maintain the same levels of crash safety, performance (range, lightweight, comfort) and cost-efficiency. Furthermore, they can no longer afford to spend the time and resources needed to crash, measure, and evaluate real cars, only to go back to the drawing board and build “improved” prototypes. OEMs and their suppliers must find a way to keep up with evolving requirements – that ability lies in simulation. OEMs can virtually test an unending number of scenarios, which is key to ensuring the successful development of an electric vehicle with a global mindset.

Leading engineering teams are adopting an increasingly digital mindset to deploy innovative concepts at an unprecedented pace while meeting or exceeding performance requirements. To do that, they need the right tools.

VPS's unique Single Core Model allows you to eliminate silos between disciplines by opening the door to lightning-fast iterations and unmatched efficiency while developing innovative solutions. By drastically reducing the time spent on construction and modification of your model, engineers can investigate design options and variations, allowing them to make the best trade-offs and reduce the time spent on the synchronization of models between domains. VPS customers, from startups to top OEMs, conduct multi-domain engineering using this single core model. They're breaking down the silos separating engineering departments and working concurrently towards their goals, delivering innovative products at a manageable cost and risk.

The extended scalability and robustness offered for high-performance computing are key to investigating multiple design options, virtually testing the car's performance, around a single core model, and performing iterations before design freeze. In addition to multi-scale modeling, this offers improved accuracy along with the benefits of cost and time savings.

ESI's teams of experts are supporting engineering organizations throughout the world to implement virtual prototypes, integrate them across their ecosystem, establish their value & ROI, and ensure they are fully equipped for sustainable deployment.

Elevate your lightweight designs with Virtual Performance Solution

• ESI VPS is known for its end-to-end Virtual Prototyping of structures, as it accounts for the manufacturing and assembly process for performance prediction. Having a detailed knowledge of the impact of the manufacturing process on structural performance is imperative. 
• New features like advanced composite crash and strength models allow you to predict the rupture behavior of composite parts and their capability to absorb energy during a crash.
• By coupling metal structures with composite materials, you open yourself up to more flexibility when it comes to design while remaining cost-efficient and compatible with mass production.
• Using a multi-scale approach, engineers can virtually test performances of new technologies to join composite and metallic parts, ensuring optimal crash and fatigue performance. This is important as it influences the crash scenario. 
• Since lightweight impacts NVH performance, using a single core model for all performances is key in making the right design trade-offs. Because reducing weight often means reduced structural performance, it directly impacts crash, safety & noise, and vibration & harshness (NVH) performance. The absence of precise and reliable simulations often causes engineers to adopt conservative safety margins, directly impacting weight, and therefore, global program performance.