ESI releases Virtual Seat Solution, a unique software solution dedicated to seat prototyping
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ESI releases Virtual Seat Solution,
a unique software solution
dedicated to seat prototyping
Helping develop safe, lightweight and comfortable seats at first try-out
Paris, France - January 27, 2014 - ESI Group, pioneer and world-leading provider
of Virtual Prototyping software and services for manufacturing industries,
announces the launch of Virtual Seat Solution, the only solution on the market
dedicated to the virtual prototyping of seats. It empowers OEMs and seat
suppliers to design, test, improve and pre-certify their seat prototypes, fully
and virtually, without the need for costly physical prototypes. Not only do
industrial clients save cost and time, they can also deliver highly innovative
seats while ensuring all aspects of their performance.
The gains provided by Virtual Prototyping are best expressed in the words of Dr.
Vincent Tejedor, Chief Technical Officer of the French company Expliseat, which
recently launched the lightest economy class airline seat in history. With their
Titanium seat, Expliseat realized the incredible achievement of reducing seat
weight to 4kg - over 50% lighter than a regular seat. Tejedor explains: "Virtual
Prototyping is a proven industrial approach to pre-certify the manufacturing
process and performance of an innovative product, such as our Titanium seat. Our
experience working with ESI's Virtual Seat Solution confirms the efficiency of
this solution in speeding up innovation. Virtual Seat Solution has helped us
reduce drastically the development time usually required to design an innovative
product, and has allowed us to increase the business value of our company in
record time!"
In the automotive sector, major OEMs, including Hyundai Motor Company, and seat
suppliers, already use the solution. Hyundai uses Virtual Seat Solution to test
H-Point, posture, pressure mapping, hardness, and the dynamic comfort of their
seats. Thanks to Virtual Prototyping, Hyundai's research for reducing seat
vibration has enabled them to deliver best-in-class comfort to all car
occupants, helping reduce muscular fatigue and long-term effects on the spine.
Han Ji Won, Engineer in the Body & Trim development team at Hyundai Motor
Company, comments: "Since seats contain lots of components, it's very difficult
to find the factors that influence dynamic comfort. We tried to figure this out
using ESI's Virtual Seat Solution and reached our goal. This new way of working
will help us save money and time effectively."
Expanding on the capacities of ESI's seat comfort software previously known as
PAM-COMFORT, Virtual Seat Solution not only covers trim manufacturing, postural,
static and dynamic comfort, it also enables the assessment of thermal comfort
and whiplash testing.
Clients can easily test the performance of their future products, including the
whiplash performance addressed in EuroNCAP or JNCAP protocols, and comfort
performance according to the SAEJ826 standard. For the first time, these tests
are fully integrated into Virtual Seat Solution, and automated from beginning to
end.
In addition, as Virtual Seat Solution takes into account the effects of
manufacturing, it ensures extremely accurate prediction of the seat performance.
Thanks to case-specific dummies and human models, users can evaluate
performance, precisely predicting the interaction between seat and passengers.
All of these applications can be assessed using a single model common to all
domains of performance, allowing seat designers, seat engineers and seat
specialists to work concurrently and efficiently. Using a single model, they can
quickly assess trade-offs between different design options and enhance their
prototypes.
Virtual Seat Solution is supported by Visual-Environment, ESI's multi-domain
platform, providing a perfect environment to support all CAE needs - from CAD
import, to easy model set-up, pre- and post-processing.
For more information on Virtual Seat Solution, please visit: www.esi-
group.com/virtual-seat
Image: ESI's Virtual Seat Solution allows industrial seat manufacturers to
build, test and improve virtual seat prototypes that take into account the
materials used and the manufacturing history.
For more ESI news, visit: www.esi-group.com/press
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About ESI Group
ESI is a world-leading provider of Virtual Prototyping software and services
with a strong foundation in the physics of materials and Virtual Manufacturing.
Founded over 40 years ago, ESI has developed a unique proficiency in helping
industrial manufacturers replace physical prototypes by virtually replicating
the fabrication, assembly and testing of products in different environments.
Virtual Prototyping enables ESI's clients to evaluate the performance of their
product and the consequences of its manufacturing history, under normal or
accidental conditions. By benefiting from this information early in the process,
enterprises know whether a product can be built, and whether it will meet its
performance and certification objectives, before any physical prototype is
built. To enable customer innovation, ESI's solutions integrate the latest
technologies in high performance computing and immersive Virtual Reality,
allowing companies to bring products to life before they even
exist.
Today, ESI's customer base spans nearly every industry sector. The company
employs about 1000 high-level specialists worldwide to address the needs of
customers in more than 40 countries. For further information, visit www.esi-
group.com.
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