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News Release from: ESI Group | Subject: EASi software products
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 23 December 2003
Acquisition expands CAE portfolio
ESI Group is enhancing its product portfolio through the acquisition of the intellectual property rights of EASi's CAE software and its flagship product, EASi-Crash.
ESI Group is enhancing its product portfolio through the acquisition of the intellectual property rights of EASi's CAE software and its flagship product, EASi-Crash The acquisition allows ESI Group to offer a common user environment as well as simulation design and control tools for the automotive industry, particularly in the area of safety
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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EASi software products include model building, results evaluation against regulatory requirements and design comparisons.
They offer industry-proven simulation environments for crashworthiness, safety, NVH, durability and process analyses.
"We are very excited about this acquisition, which will strengthen our market penetration by allowing us to offer customers a powerful CAE software solution within our overall VTOS simulation environment", says Vincent Chaillou, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, ESI Group.
"The EASi product portfolio is a great strategic addition to our offer that helps us build the foundations of an open 3G PLM solution for our customers".
For occupant safety simulation, EASi-Crash Mad for Madymo is the most established solution for preparing the Madymo model (including dummies, belts and airbags) and analysing the results.
EASi-Crash Dyna for LS-Dyna and EASi-Crash Rad for Radioss represents a complete, efficient and solver-specific CAE environment that delivers extreme productivity to the user for structural crash and coupling with rigid body for crash synthesis simulations.
EASi-Folder helps to generate complex folded models for safety simulations, by combining full meshing capabilities with powerful mesh-based and mesh-independent folding algorithms.
EASi-Basic Nastran is the first fully integrated environment for comprehensive Nastran simulations.
Users can access the solver capabilities for complex and powerful NVH and durability analyses.
EASi-Process is an advanced technology for creating, automating, and standardising CAE processes for automotive and aerospace engineering.
EASi-Seal is a design-verification environment for seal system and closure designs.
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