ESI Will Be at CES 2019

Accelerating Manufacturing & Engineering Developments for the Future
of E-mobility

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Group (Paris:ESI), leading innovator in Virtual
Prototyping software and services for manufacturing
industries, will exhibit at CES
in Las Vegas on January 8-11, 2019. Accelerating innovation in various
industries, ESI works for example with leading automakers and their
suppliers across the world to enable smarter manufacturing, greener
designs, and safer vehicles. At CES, ESI will showcase how Smart
Virtual Prototyping helps both OEMs and startups to introduce
disruptive innovations and accelerate mobility developments by
eliminating the need for physical prototypes.

E-mobility translates into greater product complexity

As automakers race to develop sustainable mobility solutions, they are
challenged by complex and often conflicting needs. Adding to existing
requirements such as safety or comfort, manufacturers must find
ingenuous ways to extend Electric Vehicle (EV) range ─ which inevitably
translates into tougher targets for weight reduction and challenging
manufacturability and production costs. Connected and autonomous
vehicles bring yet another layer of complexity.

A unique engineering approach to boost innovation

ESI offers a holistic view of the impact of one requirement on another,
and thereby helps manufacturers come up with optimal designs and achieve
preliminary certification before any physical product exists.
Furthermore, by bridging conventional product development and
engineering silos, ESI’s Smart
Virtual Prototyping solutions efficiently address the problematics
of bringing to market the next generation of innovative, high-quality
yet energy-efficient vehicles. At CES, ESI will focus on bringing their
engineering approach to lightweighting as a major opportunity to achieve
lower emission vehicles and to extend vehicle range. In that context,
ESI will display research work done as part of the United
States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR) consortium.

Improving productivity and shaping Smart Factories

Today, automotive manufacturers are seeking to reduce time to market,
improve product quality, and increase productivity by avoiding product
and process design errors as early as possible. In this respect,
anticipating interactions between operators, machinery and factory
environment is key to foreseeing ergonomic and usability aspects. ESI
will bring to CES its immersive solutions that encourage the design of
human-centric factory processes. On ESI’s booth at CES, visitors will be
able to experience the assembly process of Gazelle
Tech’s eco-friendly vehicle in Virtual Reality. Furthermore, ESI and
its partner Diota
will also showcase synergies between Virtual Reality (supporting product
and process engineering) and Augmented Reality (assisting operators
during assembly and service procedures).

Leveraging IoT and sensors technology to promote safer driving and
operational excellence

As the
Outcome Economy is moving customer expectations from product
quality (as sold) to operational excellence (as used), ESI will
introduce to CES its solutions leveraging big data analytics and virtual
prototyping to ensure products’ reliability over time. Arnaud de la
Fouchardière, CEO,

Vitirover
will join ESI’s booth to introduce a joint project that uses Smart Data
to predict and control the behavior of herds of grass mowing-robots;
exploiting that technology can be applied to IoT-controlled systems
within an electric vehicle.

ESI: a partner of choice for OEMs and startups alike

ESI provides solutions to the world’s leading OEMs, including Fiat
Chrysler Automotive, Ford, Honda, Renault Nissan, Toyota, Volkswagen
Group, and their supply chains. Working closely with such international
customers, leveraging a global ecosystem of academic and R&D partners,
ESI has developed a unique expertise in enabling pre-certification
thanks to virtual prototypes that are as good as real because they have
been built virtually; step by step from raw materials to factory
delivered product. Visitors to CES will have the opportunity to learn at
first-hand how OEMs and startups alike are leveraging ESI’s radical
technology to deliver highly innovative solutions and vehicles.

Would you like to meet the ESI team or get a demo at CES? Book an
appointment here.

For more ESI news, visit: www.esi-group.com/press

About ESI Group

ESI
Group is a leading innovator in Virtual
Prototyping software and services. Specialist in material physics, ESI
has developed a unique proficiency in helping industrial manufacturers
replace physical prototypes by virtual prototypes, allowing them to
virtually manufacture, assemble, test and pre-certify their future
products. Coupled with the latest technologies, Virtual Prototyping is
now anchored in the wider concept of the Product Performance
Lifecycle™, which addresses the operational performance of a product
during its entire lifecycle, from launch to disposal. The creation of a Hybrid
Twin™, leveraging simulation, physics and data analytics, enables
manufacturers to deliver smarter and connected products, to predict
product performance and to anticipate maintenance needs.

ESI is a French company listed in compartment B of NYSE Euronext Paris.
Present in more than 40 countries, and addressing every major industrial
sector, ESI
Group employs about 1200 high-level specialists around the world and
reported annual sales of €135 million in 2017. For more information,
please visit www.esi-group.com.

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