ESI Group to take part in GIFA International Foundry Trade Fair

ESI Group (ESIN FR0004110310) will present its latest casting solutions at the GIFA International Foundry Trade Fair, to be held in Dusseldorf from 12 to 16 June 2007. ESI Group’s casting team will present new ProCAST and QuikCAST solutions and visitors will get a comprehensive overview of the rapid developments in casting-process simulation.

[ClickPress, Tue Apr 10 2007] ESI Group (ESIN FR0004110310) will present its latest casting solutions at the GIFA International Foundry Trade Fair, to be held in Dusseldorf from 12 to 16 June 2007. ESI Group’s casting team will present new ProCAST and QuikCAST solutions and visitors will get a comprehensive overview of the rapid developments in casting-process simulation.

“Twenty years ago, we had to explain the purpose of simulation and CAD software was still in its infancy. Ten years later, towards the end of the 20th century, simulation was well understood but user requirements had shifted the focus towards validating the numerical results with experimental work.

Today, the main challenges are found in the integration of simulation results within the global product life cycle, and in the capability to rapidly predict better results with additional specific casting functionalities in a user-friendly environment. In fact, this is exactly what ESI Group’s casting solutions can offer, because of the company’s fast development, strategic acquisitions and rapid expansion all over the world. As casting-simulation veterans of the GIFA foundry trade fair, we will be honoured to welcome visitors to our booth in 2007 to show our recent developments and explain our strategy,” says Dr Marco Gremaud, ESI Casting Solutions Product Manager.

The ESI Group booth will be run by ESI Group’s multilingual casting team, with representatives from Europe, North and South America, China, Japan, Korea and India. For almost two decades, GIFA has been recognised as the leading international casting trade fair. ESI Group has exhibited its casting-simulation solutions at GIFA since 1989. In 2007, ESI Group’s booth will be in Hall 15, Booth G14.

A major focus during GIFA 2007 will be the link between cast-part properties and their usage in final assemblies under real conditions. For that purpose, ESI Group has developed a new, open collaborative engineering environment allowing process customisation and automation. The users of ESI Group casting solutions benefit from the multi-faceted range of products and solutions (welding, crash impact and safety, stamping, vibro-acoustic, composites and plastics, advanced CFD, etc.).

The ProCAST solution includes: automatic mesh generation; thermal analysis with radiation effects; flow analysis for mould filling; fully coupled thermal, flow and stress analysis; and advanced metallurgical options. The software provides state-of-the-art simulation capabilities to the casting industry, allowing complex processes to be simulated, and also provides foundries with the capability to test more mould designs in less time. In 2006, ProCAST was awarded the European Technology Leadership of the Year Award by Frost & Sullivan.

QuikCAST, a fast and efficient solution for casting-process evaluation, is a streamlined and user-friendly casting-simulation tool that provides a complete industrial solution for foundries, as well as delivering realistic predictions at each step of the casting process. Based on robust solvers and efficient self-correction features, this technology yields comprehensive and realistic results with high mesh independence.

About ESI Group

ESI Group is a pioneer and world-leading supplier of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials. ESI Group has developed an entire suite of coherent, industry-oriented applications to simulate a product’s behaviour realistically during testing, to fine-tune the manufacturing processes in accordance with the desired product performance, and to evaluate the environment’s impact on product usage.

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, virtual engineering solution, known as the Virtual Try-Out Space (VTOS), enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a continuous manner. By drastically reducing costs and development lead times, VTOS solutions offer major competitive advantages and make it possible to eliminate gradually the need for physical prototypes. 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 progressively eliminate the need for physical prototypes during product development, thus offering major competitive advantages.

ESI Group is listed on the Eurolist compartment C of Euronext Paris, and generated sales of €62.2m in 2005. The company employs over 500 high-level specialists worldwide, and covers more than 30 countries.

Virtual Try-Out Space® and VTOS® are registered trademarks of ESI Group. All other products, names and companies mentioned in this press release are brands, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

ESI Group will take part in the GIFA trade show in Dusseldorf (Germany) from 12 to 16 June 2007 (Hall 15, Booth G14).
For further information, please go to: www.esi-group.com

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