ESI's Virtual Prototyping contributes to the project "Passenger Seats of the Future" led by Zodiac Seats France
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
ESI's Virtual Prototyping contributes to the project
"Passenger Seats of the Future"
led by Zodiac Seats France
ESI's Virtual Seat Solution
delivers predictive capabilities from design to pre-certification
Paris, France - June 3, 2015 - ESI Group, pioneer and world-leading solution
provider in Virtual Prototyping for manufacturing industries announces its
participation in the project "Passenger Seats of the Future". Led jointly with
Zodiac Seats France this project involves French industrial, academic and
institutional partners, and has as its objective the identification of
innovative solutions that will meet the expectations of both airlines and
passengers for aircraft seats.
In the highly competitive business of civil aviation, seats are a key element
for airlines to maximize revenue by optimizing payload. Seats also embody an
airline's differentiation strategy: they are the flagship component in the cabin
and a means to entice and retain customers. Having the right seats represents a
true competitive advantage and consequentially aircraft seats are of growing
importance. This is well illustrated by the action of Air France, which is
currently upgrading its long-haul fleet and will add 10,000 new economy class
seats aboard 44 aircraft between June 2014 and July 2016.
Aside from the need to meet passengers' growing expectations in terms of
comfort, future aircraft seats will have to answer challenges linked to weight
reduction as a means to enable airlines to save substantial amounts of fuel.
This must be achieved without negative impact on passenger safety and in
compliance with evolving safety regulations. Future aircraft seats will need to
be lighter, more comfortable, and also allow new in-flight activities (including
phone calls, internet use, medical care.).
Furthermore seats must be adapted to the changing morphology of passengers, as
our population ages and increases in size and weight. Seat designers and
manufacturers must now cater to all types of passengers, whatever their age,
weight or disability.
To speed up the research for solutions offering an optimal balance between
passenger comfort, seat weight and morphological variations, Zodiac Seats France
is leading the project "Passenger Seats of the Future". The laboratory LAMIH,
UMR 8201 CNRS from the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis is
taking part in the project along with the laboratory LBMC, UMR-T 9406 from
IFSTTAR and from the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. On the industrial front,
Texisense, a French company specialized in hi-tech sensors, and ESI have joined
with several subsidiaries from the Zodiac Group: Zodiac Aerotechnics, Zodiac
Aerosafety Systems and Zodiac Actuation systems.
ESI brings to this project a wealth of experience in Virtual Prototyping and
seat comfort prediction - addressing static seating comfort, thermal comfort,
and vibration absorption during different phases of a flight, and for all
populations.
This experience is embodied in ESI's software Virtual Seat Solution, which is
dedicated to the virtual design, manufacturing and prediction of seat
performance and takes into account material physics, manufacturing processes and
the behavior of a human body for all morphologies. Thanks to its unique
precision, Virtual Seat Solution enables the creation of virtual seat prototypes
and the evaluation of seat performance right from the early phases of design.
Virtual Seat Solution empowers seat specialists to quickly explore different
innovative designs at an affordable cost, and ultimately to pre-certify these
designs before a physical prototype is ever produced.
Image: Virtual Seat Solution is a unique software solution dedicated to seat
prototyping
For more information about Virtual Seat Solution, please visit http://www.esi-
group.com/virtual-seat-solution
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services with a strong foundation in the physics of the materials of which
products are built.
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,
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