A record number of rapporteurs discuss on virtual simulation in Simulia 2011
May 30, 2011
The past 19 May concluded successfully the 23ª International Conference annual of customers of the world-wide specialist in solutions for the management of the cycle of life of products and 3D
The invited speakers were supplemented by more than 90 presentations of engineers who represented more than 80 organizations of manufacturing and research, including Airbus, Abbott vascular, Cordis Corporation, Fiat Research Center, Ford Motor Company, Halliburton, Hyundai, Idiada, Medtronic, Rolls-Royce, Xerox, and many others. The session covered a wide range of sectors, from aerospace to automotive, civil engineering, defence, energy, technology and science of health, among others.
Cases of success in leading companies
The rapporteur Jayaraman Sivakumar, director of the General Motors Powertrain engineering group, described how effective use of the State of the art of simulation in the level of system, subsystem and components, allows GM to provide transmission systems that save fuel and improve the performance of cars and trucks.
BD is a distinguished specialist in medical manufacturing industry since the company adopted the use of the tools of computer-aided engineering (CAE) approximately 25 years to optimize the manufacture and performance of medical products. Anita Bestelmeyer, Director falls for BD, explained how his team is using the technologies of virtual simulation of Simulia for supply to the market products optimal, robust and high-quality, faster and at lower cost.
Benoît Guillaume, an expert in numerical optimization for PSA Peugeot Citroën, stressed the deployment of its automotive and platform optimization, based on the Isight and Execution Engine of Simulia software. The platform aims to improve operational efficiency and capitalize on best practices.
"The figure record of presentations this year shows the high value that our customers attach to share their experiences at our annual meeting for the leaders of opinion in the field of virtual simulation", States Ken Short, Vice President of strategy and Marketing for Simulia, Dassault Systèmes. "Leading this exceptional cast of speakers, Siva, Anita and Benoît contributed knowledge about the way in which its companies are using virtual simulation to gain competitive advantage, exploring and improving performance, security and quality of their products in the real world".
CD-adapco and Microsoft were the Premier Sponsors of 2011 SCC. They were joined in the exhibition of partners other 20 Simulia partners including Anybody Technology, AVL List GmbH, BETA CAE Systems, CAPVIDIA, Cenaero, Core Tech System Co., Ltd., DatapointLabs, e-Xstream engineering SA, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Fujitsu, Granta Design, Intel, JSOL Corporation, LMS International, NVIDIA Corporation, Northwest Numerics &Amp; Modeling, Platform Computing, Safe Technology Ltd., Silicon Graphics, Inc., Simpleware Ltd, and Zentech International Ltd.
