Software simulates and evaluates casting process.
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Allowing complex processes to be simulated, ProCAST includes automatic mesh generation, thermal analysis with radiation effects, flow analysis for mold-filling, metallurgical options, and fully coupled thermal, flow, and stress analysis. Based on solvers and self-correction features, QuikCAST offers complete industrial solution to foundries and delivers realistic predictions at each step of casting process with high mesh independence.
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ESI Group Introduces New Versions of Procast and Quikcast at The 11th Edition of The Gifa Foundry Trade Show in Germany
ESI Group has once again chosen the GIFA foundry trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany, to present its recent releases in casting solutions and meet its customers. From June 12 to 16 in Hall 15 at booth G14, get a comprehensive overview of the rapid developments in the area of casting process simulation. The company's multilingual casting team, representing Asia, Europe, and North and South America, will present the new ProCAST and QuikCAST solutions during meetings dedicated to your needs. For almost two decades, GIFA has been recognized as the most important casting trade show in the world, and ESI Group has presented its casting simulation solutions there since 1989.
The users of ESI Group casting solutions benefit from the multi-facetted range of products and solutions (advanced CFD, composites and plastics, crash impact and safety, stamping, vibro-acoustic, welding, etc.). A major focus during this GIFA edition will be on the link (inter-relationships) between cast-part properties and their usage in final assemblies under real conditions. For that purpose ESI Group has developed a new open collaborative engineering environment allowing process customization and automation.
The ProCAST solution includes automatic mesh generation, thermal analysis with radiation effects, flow analysis for mold-filling, fully coupled thermal, flow, and stress analysis, and advanced metallurgical options. This software provides state-of-the-art simulation capabilities to the casting industry allowing complex processes to be simulated and provides foundries with the capability to test more mold designs in less time. In 2006, the ProCAST solution received the European Technology Leadership of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan.
QuikCAST, the fast and efficient solution for casting process evaluation, is a streamlined and user-friendly casting simulation tool which provides a complete industrial solution to foundries and delivers realistic predictions at each step of the casting process. Based on robust solvers and efficient self-correction features, this technology yields comprehensive and realistic results with high mesh independence.
"Almost 20 years ago we had to explain the purpose of our work and even CAD software was in its infancy," says Marco Gremaud, ESI Casting Solutions product manager. Ten years later, towards the end of the 20th century, simulation was well understood but user requirements shifted the focus towards validating the numerical results with experimental work. Today the main challenges are found in the integration of simulation results within the global product life cycle and the capability to rapidly predict better results with additional specific casting functionalities in a friendly user environment. In fact this is exactly what ESI Group casting solutions propose because of its fast developments, strategic acquisitions, and rapid expansion all over the world. As the casting simulation veterans of the GIFA foundry trade show, we will be honored to welcome you in our booth in 2007 to show our recent developments and to explain our strategy," he explains.
About ESI Group:
ESI Group is a world-leading supplier, and a pioneer of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials. ESI Group has developed an extensive suite of coherent, industry oriented applications to realistically simulate a product's behavior during testing, to fine-tune manufacturing processes in accordance with desired product performance, and evaluate the environment's impact on product performance. ESI Group's products, which have a proven track record in manufacturing and have been combined in multi-trade value chains, represent a unique collaborative and open virtual engineering solution known as the Virtual Try-Out Space (VTOS), enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a continuous and collaborative manner. This integrated protocol allows all the company's solutions to work with each other and with applications developed by independent software vendors. By significantly reducing costs and development lead times and enabling product/process synergies, VTOS solutions offer major competitive advantage by progressively eliminating the need for physical prototypes during product development. The company generated sales of nearly $90 million in 2006, employs more than 600 high-level specialists worldwide covering more than 30 countries. ESI Group is listed in Eurolist compartment C of Euronext Paris. For further information, visit www.esi-group.com.
