ESI Group announces the detailed program of its third ESI Global Forum, scheduled May 21 & 22 in Paris, France. The event will gather ESI customers from various industry sectors and countries around the globe and provide opportunity to share their challenges and achievements. The aim of this event is to help industry leaders implement best practices in Virtual Product Engineering and maximize the related benefits – from increased product performance to cost reduction and reduced time to market.
Alain de Rouvray, co-founder and CEO of ESI Group, will share his strategic vision for Virtual Product Engineering while Eric Daubourg, COO of ESI France, will introduce the impressive list of keynote speakers in the following order:
- Eric Landel, Lead Expert in Numerical Modeling and Simulation, Renault
- Herve Gilibert, Chief Technology Officer, Airbus Defense & Space
- Morello Sperandio, Scientific Director, AREVA
- Toshihiro Araki, General Manager of the Integrated CAE Department, Planning and Advanced Engineering Development Division, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd
- Ralph Sundermeier, Head of the Department for CAE-methods, Volkswagen AG
Following these keynote presentations, the conference will split into dedicated industry sessions that will address in more details the specific challenges and best practices for Ground Transportation, Aerospace & Defense and Energy & Power.
ESI customers presenting in the Ground Transportation session will include AP&T (Sweden), Applus + IDIADA (Spain), AUDI AG (Germany), Brno University (Czech Republic), Deutsches Luft- und Raumfahrtzentrum (Germany), Gestamp (France), Honda Motor Co (Japan), Humanetics (Germany), Hyundai Motor (Germany), Jaguar LandRover (United Kingdom), Magna International (United States), Mazda Motor Corporation (Japan), Nissan Motor Co (Japan), Renault (France), PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN (France), Virtual Vehicle Research Center (Austria), Visteon (France), Volkswagen AG (Germany), and West Bohemia University (Czech Republic).
The Energy & Power session will include speakers from AREVA (France), AREVA NP GmbH (Germany), CEA (France), Creusot Forge (France), HEVS (Switzerland), ONET Technology (France), SL Rasch (Germany), and STMicroelectronics (France).
The Aerospace & Defense session will include Acoudesign (France), Airbus Defense & Space (France), Airbus Helicopter (France), Dassault Aviation (France), Deutsches Luft- und Raumfahrtzentrum (DLR), Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France), Doncasters (UK), European Space Agency (Netherlands), Expliseat SAS (Netherlands), Hochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen (Germany), OJSC Aviadvigatel (Russia), PCC Airfoils - LLC (United States), Rolls-Royce (UK), SNECMA (France) and Spirit Aerosystems (UK).
To fulfill the needs of ESI’s growing vibro-acoustics user community, four vibro-acoustics workshops will run in parallel to the aforementioned industry presentations. These workshops will focus on Powertrain Exhaust and Intake, Wind Noise, Cabin Noise and Low Frequency Interior Acoustics.
On the day before ESI Global Forum, a micro-seminar on hot forming is organized jointly with AP&T. That event will focus on virtual hot forming engineering workflows, from customer request to production solution, including material cost estimation, die face design, stamping feasibility and validation, cooling channel validation and Virtual Reality.
