CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
1 March 2007
Events News
ESI Group Takes Part in the International Foundry Trade Fair GIFA; The new versions of ProCAST and QuikCAST for Casting Process Simulation will be presented at the 11th edition of the GIFA
Once again ESI Group has chosen the GIFA to present its recent releases in casting solutions and meet its customers. ESI Group casting simulation solutions have been showed at GIFA since the 1989 edition. From 12 to 16 June 2007, you will have the opportunity to get a comprehensive overview of the rapid developments in the area of casting process simulation. ESI Group's casting team will present the new ProCAST and QuikCAST solutions during meetings dedicated to your needs. ESI GROUP's multilingual casting team coming from Eastern and Western Europe, North and South America, China, Japan, Korea and India will represent the ESI GROUP booth.
The users of ESI Group casting solutions benefit from the multi-facetted range of products and solutions (Welding, Crash Impact and Safety, Stamping, Vibro-Acoustic, Composites and Plastics, Advanced CFD.). A major thrust 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 mould 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 mould designs in less time.
QuikCAST, a 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's were in their infancy. 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 fair we will be honoured to welcome you in our booth in 2007 to show our recent developments and to explain our strategy" says Dr Marco Gremaud, ESI Casting Solutions Product Manager.
To obtain information to prepare your visit to the ESI Group's booth Hall 15 Booth G14 please contact either your ESI Group's representative or visit http://www.esi-group.com .
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