Renault and ESI Group sign a framework agreement for strategic collaboration
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To accelerate innovation with Virtual Prototyping
Paris, France - May 16, 2013 - ESI Group, pioneer and world-leading solution
provider in Virtual Prototyping for manufacturing industries, announces the
signature of a framework collaboration agreement with Renault.
The agreement aims at supporting Renault's new strategic plan "Renault 2016 -
Drive the Change", founded on Renault's ambition to make sustainable mobility
accessible to all. The industrial challenge Renault faces is to improve the
quality of its vehicles, while lowering prices and complying with new
regulations aimed at reducing their environmental impact, especially CO(2)
emissions. This translates into a compelling need to accelerate innovation,
necessitating the introduction of new materials and processes that have impacts
that must be evaluated and tested quickly and reliably.
To this aim, as well as to generally enhance the processes that support
innovation, Renault has implemented a Virtual Prototyping methodology. Different
from traditional CAE methods, Virtual Prototyping helps assess numerous options
rapidly; eliminating the need for physical prototypes and providing a powerful
decision-making tool that enlarges the field of innovative possibilities and
accelerates the identification of high value-added innovations.
Renault started using ESI solutions in the early 90's, to perform accurate and
predictive manufacturing simulations and conduct virtual performance tests on
its vehicles, prior to real tests.
In 2011, following the signature of a framework agreement for licences with ESI,
Renault then adopted ESI's Virtual Performance Solution (VPS). Providing
performance engineering and optimization across multiple domains, including
crash, impact and occupant safety, as well as interior acoustics and seat
prototyping, VPS works on a single core model and as a single software solution.
Using VPS, Renault teams are able to predict the effect of manufacturing
processes and material properties on a product's performance and replace the
need for physical prototypes; saving cost and time and assuring the quality of
their products.
Over the past years, Renault and ESI's co-creative approach has given birth to
some of ESI's commercially available software solutions, including its passenger
comfort software suite, now part of Virtual Seat Solution. Aimed at providing
end-to-end Virtual Prototyping for seats, this solution enables engineers to
perform multi-domain simulations related to seat manufacturing and performance,
and provides a basis for optimizing seat design collaboratively using a single
core model.
The framework collaboration agreement between Renault and ESI aims to strengthen
the existing relationship and bring an increasing number of opportunities for
further co-creation around ESI solutions.
Alain de Rouvray, ESI Group's Chairman and CEO, affirms "ESI will aim at
providing solutions leading Renault to go beyond their standard objectives and
to implement disruptive innovations. By helping Renault meet its cost,
performance, lead times, and most importantly, its innovation targets, ESI will
demonstrate the value of its co-creative approach in delivering substantial,
tangible gains in competitiveness."
Jean Loup HUET, Director of Engineering Performance and Methods at Renault adds,
"Renault is pleased to strengthen its collaboration with ESI, a strategic
partner for end-to-end Virtual Prototyping. In alignment with our corporate
strategy, our close collaboration with ESI will enable Renault to anticipate the
needs for new technologies, and to proactively manage the innovations required
to supply the competitive global automotive markets."
About ESI Group
ESI is a pioneer and world-leading provider in Virtual Prototyping that takes
into account the physics of materials. ESI boasts a unique know-how in Virtual
Product Engineering, based on an integrated suite of coherent, industry-oriented
applications. Addressing manufacturing industries, Virtual Product Engineering
aims to replace physical prototypes by realistically simulating a product's
behavior during testing, to fine-tune fabrication and assembly processes in
accordance with desired product performance, and to evaluate the impact on
product use under normal or accidental conditions. ESI's solutions fit into a
single collaborative and open environment for End-to-End Virtual Prototyping.
These solutions are delivered using the latest technologies, including immersive
Virtual Reality, to bring products to life in 3D; helping customers make the
right decisions throughout product development. The company employs about 950
high-level specialists worldwide covering more than 30 countries. ESI Group is
listed in compartment C of NYSE Euronext Paris.
About Renault
The Renault group, present in 118 countries, designs, develops, manufactures and
sells passenger cars and light commercial vehicles under the Renault, Dacia and
Renault Samsung Motors brands. To meet the new challenges facing the automotive
industry, both environmental and economic, Renault is improving existing
technologies with new generations of carbon-efficient engines and implementing
its breakthrough 'Zero Emissions' programme. Renault has rolled out a zero-
emission range featuring Fluence Z.E. and Kangoo Z.E. (launched in 2011), Twizy
(an innovative urban quadricycle released in 2012) and ZOE (due to go on sale in
spring 2013). The range brings innovation to the widest possible motoring
public. With its partner Nissan, Renault is targeting world leadership in the
mass marketing of zero-emission vehicles.
Alain de Rouvray, CEO, ESI Group and Jean Loup HUET, Director of Performance and
Engineering Methods at Renault, January 24, 2013, at the Renault Technocenter
in Guyancourt, near Paris.
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