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Simulation, modelling and validation software
News Release from: ESI Group
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 30 April 2007
Casting software goes on show in
Dusseldorf
Visitors to ESI Group's stand at the GIFA foundry trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany will get a comprehensive overview of the rapid developments in the area of casting process simulation.
ESI Group has once again chosen the GIFA foundry trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany, to present its recent releases in casting solutions and meet its customers From 12th to 16th June in Hall 15 at booth G14, visitors get a comprehensive overview of the rapid developments in the area of casting process simulation
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 22 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company's multilingual casting team, representing Asia, Europe, and North and South America, will present the new ProCAST and QuikCAST solutions.
For almost two decades, GIFA has been recognised as the most important casting trade show in the world, and ESI Group has presented its casting simulation solutions there since 1989.
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A major focus during this GIFA edition will be on 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 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.
This software provides state of the art simulation capabilities to the casting industry allowing complex processes to be simulated and providing foundries with the capability to test more mould designs in less time.
In 2006, the ProCAST solution received the European Technology Leadership of the Year Award from Frost and Sullivan.
QuikCAST, the fast and efficient solution for casting process evaluation, is a streamlined and user-friendly casting simulation tool which provides a complete industrial solution to foundries and delivers 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.
"Almost 20 years ago we had to explain the purpose of our work and even CAD software was in its infancy", says Marco Gremaud, ESI Casting Solutions Product Manager.
"Ten years later, towards the end of the 20th century, simulation was well understood but user requirements 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 the capability to rapidly predict better results with additional specific casting functionalities in a friendly user environment".
"In fact this is exactly what ESI Group casting solutions propose because of its fast developments, strategic acquisitions, and rapid expansion all over the world".
"As the casting simulation veterans of the GIFA foundry trade show, we will be honoured to welcome you in our booth in 2007 to show our recent developments and to explain our strategy", he explains.
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