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June 2009 - ESTECO North America opens new office
Due to further expansion of our team based in Michigan, we have outgrown our office in Livonia,
where we have been based for the last 2½ years. On June 1st we moved into our new office in in the Crystal Glen building in Novi (only 2 miles up the road from our previous office).
Esteco North America's main US office remains in Miami
The new contacts are:
ESTECO North America Inc
39555 Orchard Hill Place
Suite 430
Novi, MI 48375
USA
Tels: +1 248 522 5977,
+1 248 522 6665
E-mail: na.sales@esteco.com
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January 2009 - Flowmaster™ V7 direct integration in modeFRONTIER™ 4.1
modeFRONTIER™ v4.1 includes the new Flowmaster™ V7 Direct Integration node, which allows Flowmaster™ users around the world to exploit the most complete optimization software tool available on the market.
The type of parameters and results which can be handled by modeFRONTIER™ are those compatible with the GUI Automation API available from Flowmaster™ V7.5.2 (or greater). These affect the following items:
- Components
- Nodes
Simulation data can also be set from within modeFRONTIER™ for both compressible and incompressible flows.
Watch this video to see how the Flowmaster™ Direct Integration node works with modeFRONTIER™:
November 2008 - ESTECO supports SmartFish
During a coffee break at last year's CFD++ User Meeting in Ventura, California, Koni Schafroth, who had just presented the current status of his SmartFish project, met Nader Fateh, VP of ESTECO North America, and the discussion quickly turned to how modeFRONTIER could be used to help in the development of this unique aviation project.
Koni was already employing tools such as UG, CFD++ and Sculptor; the obvious missing component was a process integration and design optimisation tool like modeFRONTIER. Nader, who holds a degree in Aeronautical Engineering and has a background in CFD, was fascinated by SmartFish, and immediately offered to sponsor the project by providing Koni with modeFRONTIER licenses.
SmartFish is a two-seat experimental aircraft of Koni's own design. As the name implies, SmartFish is more reminiscent of a fish than a conventional aircraft (in fact the design is based on the shape of the tuna!), and is extremely unusual in that it has done away with many of the moving parts necessary for the control of conventional aircraft: flaps, spoilers and slats. While no full-scale version of SmartFish exists yet, there have already been several test flights of a fuel cell powered scale model.
The aircraft, projected to have a range of 8000km and a maximum speed of Mach 0.9, is sure to have a great future, for an array of uses: as a UAV, a high performance sports plane, or a business jet, seating up to 20 passengers.
On the SmartFish website there is a quote from one of the best known names in both aviation and literature, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”. Koni and his team are using modeFRONTIER to help them get as close to perfection as possible.
More on SmartFish at: www.smartfish.ch
August 2008 - modeFRONTIER Users' Meeting 2008 list of speakers
The list of speakers of modeFRONTIER Users' Meeting 2008 is now available on the Users' Meeting website. The conference agenda will be soon available.
See the list of speakers on UM08 website >>
February 6, 2008 - modeFRONTIER™ 4.0 released to the public!
We are very pleased to inform you that the latest version of modeFRONTIER™ has been released.
Version 4.0 is a major release of the modeFRONTIER™ system compatible with the previous version 3. The graphical user interface is provided with a brand new look and feel, including major improvements and several new features added:
- Now modeFRONTIER™ features Vector/Matrix handling. This feature is available in the Workflow and performs process integration considering flows of complex data
- Optimization Wizard to reply to the well-known questions: "Which is the best optimization algorithm for my problem? From the list of available algorithms, which one suits my needs best?"
- RSM Creation Wizard: in v3 you used to train only one RSM model for only one Output Variable at a time. With v4.0 you can create automatically as many RSM models as you like for as many Output Variables as you want at a time
- We have implemented state-of-the-art techniques to visualize complex sets of data in multi-dimensional spaces (i.e. SOM and Clustering tools)
- New reliability methods for DFSS (Design For Six Sigma) , such as ANOVA and other specific post-processing Charts
- New Design Space tools which allow the user to quickly generate Summary Reports in PDF, HTML and RTF format
- New Direct Integration Nodes: ABAQUS, ANSYS WB11 , Scilab, Mathcad.
January 2008 - Automotive Industries spoke to Carlo Poloni, CEO of ESTECO
Automotive Industries January 2008 issue publish an interview to the president of ESTECO.
Read the interview on Automotive Industries website.
December 2007 - Esteco supports architectural engineering project at Columbia University
Columbia University published a studio sponsored by ESTECO and several other companies and organizations outside of the School. The studio explored the occupation of the water - that huge domain of the Earth's occupiable volume - in the context of urban energy and ecosystems.
July, 25 - modeFRONTIER™ 3.2.2 released to the public!
We are very pleased to inform you that the latest version of modeFRONTIER™ has been released.
Version 3.2.2 is a minor release of the modeFRONTIER™ system fully compatible with the previous versions 3.2.1 and 3.2.0. Some existing bugs have been fixed, including:- AVL AWS direct integration node: AVL license error message may have appeared during the evaluation of the second design belonging to the scheduler specified due to a bug in the AVL_DVI interface prior toAWS version 5.0.2
- AVL AWS direct integration node: AVL parameters and modeFRONTIER™ variables must have the same names in order to set and extract the parameter values.
- Report Tool: Auto Report unexpected crash during the creation of the report file.
- Optimization Algorithms: Fixed bug in the Levenberg-Marquardt optimization algorithm, which caused redundant design evaluations and unwanted message "LM: Lambda too big" in the Scheduler Log after the exact solution was found, due to a missing control procedure.
- AMESim direct integration node: AMESim Node failed to start the AMEPilot driver when loading the model under Linux/UNIX installations.
- ProEngineer direct integration node: ProEngineer node blocked the modeFRONTIER™ run when in batch mode.
July 2007 - modeFRONTIER supports the Windows HPC Consortium at Doshisha University, Japan
In recent years, high performance computing platforms capable of high speed processing and large scale data processing are demanded by many engineering and science fields; especially in CAE, such as for crash analysis, thermal fluid analysis and structure analysis, along with rapid progress of computing environment and enlargement of information quantity. On the other hand, expensive cost for introducing the technology and the requirement of expert knowledge have been barriers for HPC systems in practice. It is for these reasons that the HPC system has been provided - as a limited solution - which does not imply expensive cost and expert knowledge at this time.
In response to the above, the Windows HPC Consortium was founded as a donated project for education and research of Doshisha University. modeFRONTIER will be used as a powerful software for design optimization within the frame of the project.
Doshisha University's achievements in industry innovation include industry-academic collaborations, in cooperation with Microsoft Co. Ltd. which provides the Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 as an inexpensive and simple HPC platform, and Visual Technology Inc. whose achievements comprise the construction of PC cluster systems for Doshisha University and various application vendors.
By founding the consortium with Doshiba University, we expect good results for education and the promotion of advanced research. Furthermore, this industry-academic collaboration activity aims at spreading the HPC technology widely not only to large enterprises but to small and medium size companies, and expanding the range of computational applications for reinvigorating the manufacturing industries in Japan. The Windows HPC Consortium is managed by Doshisha University and the consortium members participate as donators of the project with an understanding of the objectives of the project.
Windows HPC Consortium
Director: Tomoyuki Hiroyasu
Associate Professor, Dept. of Intelligent Information Engineering and Sciences, Doshisha Univ.
Mitsunori Miki
Professor, Dept. of Intelligent Information Engineering and Sciences, Doshisha Univ.
May 17, 2007 - modeFRONTIER™ 3.2.1 released to the public!
This new minor release fixes a few bugs and adds many new features to the modeFRONTIER™ framework:
- The new AVL Workspace (AWS) node will help the user to seamless integrate the AVL simulation software.
- The UGS NX direct interface node has been introduced to integrate UGS application suite.
- The new MADYMO® node can couple the TNO multibody application software for crash testing of automotive systems.
April 2007 - Esteco North America at IPDO 2007-04-22
Sumeet Parashar of Esteco North America gave a keynote speech entitled Multi-Objective MDO Solution Strategy for Multidisciplinary Design using modeFRONTIER at IPDO-2007, the Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, which took place in Miami Beach in April.
April 2007 - Esteco North America opens Detroit office
Esteco North America has opened a satellite office in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, in order to better support local clients such as Ford Motor Company. This office is currently manned by two people: Dr Sumeet Parashar is responsible for support and training activities, while Bill Rockwell fills the role of Sales Engineer for the midwestern USA. Esteco North America's main office continues to be in Miami. For more information, please contact na.sales@esteco.com
February 2007 - CDAJ annual modeFRONTIER Japanese Meeting
On 30th January, 2nd February and 8th February 2007, CDAJ organized the annual modeFRONTIER Japanese Meeting. To be close to the customer, the meeting held in Yokohama has been replicated in Nagoya and Osaka. Approximately 300 people attended demonstrating that modeFRONTIER is now considered a strategic tool in the development of high quality products and its usage in Japan is growing fast.
CDAJ Users' meeting 2007
January 2007 - The web site of NODESIM-CFD project is active
NODESIM-CFD is a Specific Targeted Research Project financed by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme. It involves a _team of 17 collaborators working in the aeronautical industry and includes consulting companies, research institutions and software companies.
The objective of NODESIM-CFD is to introduce these uncertainties within the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation process by applying non-deterministic methodologies in order to obtain an associated domain of variation of the predicted output quantities, instead of a single value. Tools for the evaluation and quantification of uncertainties in aerodynamic and thermal performance predictions will be developed, supporting the aeronautical industry goals of enhanced design confidence, risk reduction and improved safety.
ESTECO is proud to be part of a consortium led by NUMECA and that puts together prestigeous European aerospace companies and reserch institutions to push the envelope in computational fluid dynamics and design technologies. This project together with HISAC project and other confidential projects makes ESTECO a strategic partner to Aerospace industry.
For information visit the NODESIM-CFD project web site: http://www.nodesim.eu/.
January 2007 - EnginSoft FRANCE office now opened
EnginSoft FRANCE office now opened in the very heart of Paris (7ème Arrondissement).
January 2007 - ESTECO GmbH opens a new office in Frankfurt
ESTECO GmbH opens a prestigious new office in Frankfurt on the Main which shall provide an impressive sales environment to ESTECO Germany and its main office located in Rottenburg.
From the beginning, ESTECO Frankfurt will comprise a team of 10 sales representatives. Sybille Arthen who brings in more than 14 years of experience in software sales and customer relations, will conduct business as Sales & Branch Manager Frankfurt.
ESTECO Germany is growing to explore and satisfy the demands for modeFRONTIER on one of Europe's major markets.
Press release: Esteco becomes a Product Partner of The MathWorks Connections Program
"Esteco srl, a leader in multidisciplinary optimization software, today announced that it has become a member of The MathWorks Connections Program. This partnership is based on the easy-to-use Direct Integration interface between The MathWorks' flagship product, MATLAB®, and ESTECO's modeFRONTIER."
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Press release: TASS joins forces with ESTECO
This strategic move by two global leaders in the fields of automotive safety and design optimisation technology will result in the marriage of key technologies and a more efficient and effective process for producing automotive safety products.
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