ESI Group Releases Virtual Performance Solution 2008

Scalable Simulation Solution Spans Multiple Applications and
Domains Using One Simulation Model
PARIS--(Business Wire)--
ESI Group (ESIN FR0004110310), a pioneer and world-leading
supplier of digital simulation software for prototyping and
manufacturing processes, announced today the release of Virtual
Performance Solution 2008, a highly versatile software application
package addressing the market's need for scalable simulation solutions
and Multi-Domain Optimization.

Comprising implicit and explicit solvers, user environment
software, and compute models, ESI Group's Virtual Performance Solution
2008 represents a major release: it combines several applications,
technologies, and cutting-edge options to effectively address industry
challenges of accelerating time-to-market, reducing product
development costs, and meeting quality targets.

Virtual Performance Solution is based on ESI Group's
Simulation-Based Design strategy, supporting an all-inclusive,
scalable simulation solution for linear and nonlinear static load
cases. Empowered by Visual Environment, an open, collaborative
engineering framework, the software enables impact, crash, occupant
safety, high velocity impact scenarios, optimization, as well as
motion and dynamics analysis. All performance tests can be conducted
using one single simulation model, thereby accelerating
time-to-market.

While addressing the needs of multiple industries, Virtual
Performance Solution 2008 is especially well-suited to the aerospace
industry. "Simultaneous explicit and implicit solution was a dream for
any engineer working in advanced structural dynamics and impact
simulations," said Hector Climent, Head of Structural Dynamics &
Aeroelasticity, EADS-CASA/MTAD. "With ESI Virtual Performance Solution
2008, this challenge has been successfully accomplished. It will
greatly simplify our processes and help us in our path towards a more
lean enterprise. This solution is very welcome," he continued.

Developed and validated in conjunction with industry leaders,
Virtual Performance Solution 2008 enables high efficiency,
transparency, and traceability for multi-disciplinary Computer Aided
Engineering (CAE) workflows. Additionally, Virtual Performance
Solution 2008 is extremely efficient and user-friendly: it requires a
single software installation, draws on ESI's vast compute model
library (e.g. crash dummies, human models and barriers), and offers
the user ultimate flexibility by being open to third-party products.

Virtual Performance Solution 2008 includes significant
enhancements in four application areas:

-- Structural crash analysis

-- Occupant safety

-- Impact and high velocity impact analysis

-- Motion and dynamics simulation

Additionally, it includes a Multi-Domain Optimization package.

"From the beginning our primary objective was to ensure that only
one simulation model is needed for both explicit and implicit solution
schemes. Meeting this objective, along with the many other
enhancements in Virtual Performance Solution 2008, underscores ESI
Group's continuing commitment to developing state-of-the-art
simulation solutions that address the market's needs for accelerating
the overall product development process, thereby strengthening
competitiveness in a market requiring ever-shorter development times
at lower costs," said Peter Ullrich, Product Manager, ESI Group.

About ESI Group

ESI Group is a world-leading supplier and 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 to evaluate the environment's impact on product
performance. ESI Group's offer represents a unique collaborative
solution with an open virtual engineering environment known as the
Virtual Try-Out Space, enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a
continuous and collaborative manner while eliminating the need for
physical prototypes during product development. The company employs
over 700 high-level specialists worldwide covering more than 30
countries. ESI Group is listed in compartment C of Euronext Paris. For
further information, visit www.esi-group.com.

Virtual Try-Out Space(R) is a registered trademark of ESI Group.
All other products, names or companies are the brands or registered
trademarks of their respective owners.

ESI Group
Amy de Rouvray, +33(0)1 41 73 59 01
Amy.de.Rouvray@esi-group.com

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