CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
27 May 2008
Implementation Investments
Volkswagen Group Relies on ESI Group’s Virtual Performance Solution
The Volkswagen Group has taken on the Virtual Performance Solution software suite developed by ESI Group for the simulation of vehicle crash, safety and structural load cases. Virtual Performance Solution includes PAM-CRASH, PAM-SAFE products and FPM (Finite Point Method) technology for all vehicle crash and safety simulations, as well as the latest developments in implicit technology for linear and nonlinear structural load cases. The most recent software release – Virtual Performance Solution version 2008 – opens the way to a considerable acceleration in the development process. Impact scenarios and structural load cases as designed, as analysed, as built and as destroyed can now be simulated much more efficiently. This results from ESI Group’s close cooperation with the Volkswagen Group, Europe’s largest automobile manufacturer: both have jointly pioneered crash simulations successfully since 1986.
Dr. Ralph Sundermeier, Head of Functional Calculation and Methods at Volkswagen, is counting on considerable improvements in the development process thanks to VP: “With this further development of the software suite, ESI Group has achieved a quantum leap in the field of simulations. By being able to utilise a unique mathematical model for both, crash and load testing, we’re improving our development efficiency at several stages of a project. Given the ever-shortening development cycles in the automobile sector, this gives us a decisive competitive edge.”
Vincent Chaillou, President and COO of ESI Group, expresses his great pleasure with the car manufacturer’s decision: “Volkswagen has once again shown its trailblazing role in the simulation field by actively supporting the further development of ESI’s software suite. It is our very close cooperation that has allowed us to make these great advances. Volkswagen’s decision to introduce Virtual Performance Solution in their product development process is therefore also an expression of the strategic partnership that has been forged between our companies in the last two decades.”
ESI Group’s software suite enables the realistic simulation of product behavior in varying environments. With Virtual Performance Solution version 2008, based on explicit and implicit technologies, the process of safety checking and behavior of structures under operating conditions can be comprehensively simulated in all phases of vehicle development. ESI Group’s Virtual Performance Solution will help the Volkswagen Group enhance their development capacities and reach earlier the stage of physical prototype test procedures.
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