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ANSYS and a vast competence in FEA - this is what the CADFEM brand stands for since 1985 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Moreover, through company shares and partnerships, CADFEM is a global player in CAE, e.g. in the US, in China, India, and Eastern Europe. CADFEM offers a complete portfolio of leading software tools for numerical simulations, including all product-supporting services such as expert advice, seminars, and support. Furthermore, CADFEM is also an engineering office with a highly trained team of more than 100 design analysts offering CAE consulting and software customization services.

ANSYS Competence Center FEM: Since the founding days of CADFEM, the company is in charge of the complete range of products of the worlds leading CAE provider ANSYS in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Complementary CAE-Software: ANSYS + stands for the range of complementary software solutions Their aim is to maximize the customers' ANSYS benefit. The full range of accompanying services is provided to each software offered.

CADFEM is a founding member of TechNet Alliance AG (www.technet-alliance.com).

CST is one of the two largest suppliers of electromagnetic simulation software and has continuously enhanced its position as market and technology leader in 3D Time Domain simulation. With over 90 employees worldwide and a network of qualified distributors, 120 people are dedicated to the development and support of its EM products in more than 30 countries. CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® (CST MWS) is the market leading time domain tool for 3D EM simulation. Embedded in an advanced design environment, it can be coupled with all CST STUDIO SUITE solver technology including circuit and thermal simulation.

www.cst.com

DISTENE is a leading supplier of pre- & post-processing software tools and techniques targeting the CAD/CAE software developers and end-users who want to incorporate advanced and reliable engineering meshing capabilities into their Simulation-Based Design software chain.

DISTENE offers its 20 year experience and its high-end software to its customers

• to solve the issues related to the connection from CAD to CAE through efficient meshing software technologies,
  
• to analyse, visualise and communicate, throughout the enterprise, multi-physics and large-scaled CAE datasets.
  

The Software solutions proposed by Distene are:

• MeshGems: MeshGems is a robust and industrial library of meshing software components to generate / optimize / adapt unstructured meshes. It is a reference technology on the market because of its speed, quality and robustness at an industrial level. MeshGems components are today integrated by most CAD/CAE vendors of the market in their products (ABAQUS, AUTODESK, ANSYS, PTC, DASSAULT SYSTEMES, MSC.Software, SAMTECH, UGS,...)
• EnSight: EnSight provides its users with an efficient solution to post-process very large numerical multi-physics datasets produced by growing industrial needs. It is also a powerful tool to communicate analysis results throughout the enterprise, in order to make the decision making process easier.
  
  

Founded in 1999, Elysium Co., Ltd, an independent Japanese company headquartered in Hamamatsu, is a world-leading software company specializing in the handling of 3D geometry. The quality and performance of our solutions for CAD-to-CAD translation, CAD-to-CAE/CAM optimization, and interoperability among Point Cloud, Polygon and CAD are highly appreciated among our customers and partners. Our technology has been refined through close partnerships with the world's major CAD software vendors like ABAQUS, Autodesk, Parametric Technology, Siemens PLM Software, SolidWorks and Spatial/Dassault Systemes, and strong relationships with hundreds of customers worldwide. In fact, most Japanese automotive manufacturers, auto part manufacturers, and consumer-electronics manufacturers have adopted our products for their product data management. Of course, our market is not limited to Japan. Nowadays, we have increased our market share in North America, Southeast Asia and in Europe.

www.elysium.co.jp

ESoCAET II is an FP7 Lifelong Learning Programme Transfer of Innovation project. It originates from a successful predecessor: the Leonardo da Vinci pilot project ESoCAET - European School of CAE Technologies, which developed an industry oriented and now continuously offered Master programme, which has been accredited in Germany. The ESoCAET II project transferred the innovative educational programme of the preceding project into a new learning arrangement suited for practitioneers in simulation technique, with a focus on computational mechanics. Targeted students for the new course are technicians and craftsmen. This innovative 160 hours course is offered in blended learning mode (classroom teaching complemented by e-learning modules).

ESTECO was created in 1999 to transfer the knowledge acquired by its founders while working on an European Union sponsored project on Design Optimization (FRONTIER) into a successful commercial product. It took ESTECO almost two years to deliver on its promises, turning a research-stage product into a world-class, industrial-strength, multi- objective optimization platform: modeFRONTIER. Along the way, our initial staff of experts in optimization techniques, numerical analysis and information technology has been expanded to acquire new skills and to position ourselves as ideal partners for engineering companies interested in taking full advantage of their human and computational resources. Now ESTECO counts more than 20 employees. The Head Quarters of the company are located in AREA Science Park in Trieste, Italy.

www.esteco.com

e-Xstream engineering is a software and engineering services company 100% focused on state-of the-art multi-scale modeling of complex multi-phase composites materials and structures (PMC, RMC, MMC, etc). Our mission is to help our customers to excel in: effectively and efficiently designing innovative composite materials and structures; leveraging the exceptional properties of composite materials (stiffness to weight ratio and design freedom); reducing the weight of parts and induced gas emissions and raw material consumption; bringing faster to the market innovative and high quality products; reducing the number of prototypes to lower development time and costs.

www.e-xstream.com

FIGES, the leading engineering service company established in 1990 with more than 80 employees today, is providing advanced engineering services, consultancy, trainings and related software products to research and product development departments of domestic and international Aerospace/Defense and Automotive industry companies.

www.figes.com.tr

Designed for analysts and design engineers, Flowmaster is system simulation software that takes into account the complex internal flow and thermal effects within fluid systems. A library of standard components and suite of generic "building block" components make it possible for engineers to quickly model and simulate, validate and optimise systems at the concept phase of development, before any 3D data is available. Flowmaster enables expert users to capture their knowledge in the software allowing simulations to be performed safely in controlled conditions by a wider range of engineers, providing a higher quality of rapid system development.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI conducts research in the field of computer simulations for product and process development, and is a prominent corporate partner in the industrial and science sectors. SCAI has its role and position as an independent and neutral developer of advanced software solutions. Following this baseline SCAI is open for co-operations with interested software partners in the arena of CAE software. One of our core topics is multi-physics simulation, i.e. the concurrent computation of different physical processes. Examples for such coupled simulations are fluid-structure-interactions, thermal transfer and radiation coupling, magneto-hydro-dynamics applications, or fluid-electro-interactions. These bidirectional coupled solutions can be accomplished by file-based mapping solutions (e.g in metal forming, FSI), or extending your own CAE solutions by advanced numerical mapping algorithms.

www.scai.fraunhofer.de

Intelligent Light has been helping customers maximize the value of CFD investments for over 25 years. FieldView helps you make the most of your FLUENT, CFX and POLYFLOW results. Powerful post-processing quickly identifies important flow features while interactive exploration enables thorough understanding. Examine and compare cases, extract critical values, automate workflow, and make compelling presentations that make an impact. Reduce turnaround time at least 2-5x! Use your multi-core system with FieldView Parallel. Visit www.ilight.com to learn how to improve the return on your CFD investments using FieldView. Start your free trial now and be more effective right away.

Since its founding in 1988, MAGMA has been the pacesetter in defining a new direction for the foundry industry. Its use of foundry simulation has provided new insights into the casting process. New methods for optimizing castings and foundry processes have come from these innovative developments. Today, casting process simulation tools have been successfully merged with metal casting engineering experience. The development of these technologies, and their worldwide acceptance, closely corresponds to the growth in technical understanding, software products and competent service provided by MAGMA, its subsidiaries and its R&D partners.

www.magmasoft.com

Engineers rely on computer modelling and simulation methods as vital components of the product development process. As these methods develop at an ever-increasing pace, the need for an independent, international authority on the use of this technology has never been more apparent. NAFEMS is the only worldwide independent association dedicated to this technology.

Companies from numerous industries and every part of the globe have invested heavily in engineering technologies such as FEA and CFD. But how do they ensure they get the best return from their investment? How do they develop and enhance their capabilities? How do they use the technology in the most effective way?

NAFEMS is uniquely placed to help answer these questions.

NAFEMS is an association of more than 900 companies from across the globe. Members range from major corporations such as Boeing, NASA and Ferrari through to mid-sized organizations, academic institutions and small engineering consultancies.

If you work with simulation, you should be part of NAFEMS.

HP is the biggest IT company in customer, small and medium businesses market, as well as worldwide leader on the enterprise market. Its wide offer includes IT facilities and services, personal computers and access devices, as well as imaging and printing solutions.

HP invests something like 4 thousand million dollars every year to feed the creation of new products, solutions and technologies able to better meet its customers? needs. HP Labs, the Company Research Center, is committed in the development of new technologies able to influence the market and to foster new business opportunities. The company daily registers an average of 11 new licenses all over the world.

For these reasons Hewlett-Packard is today the best ally for its partners, privileged point of reference for companies in business management and for all those customers demanding for quality, reliability and innovation.

HP commitment distinguishes itself by its care for people, principles and for several activities of social responsibilities within different communities, through its experience and technology. HP has always supported scientific research, educational, social, artistic and cultural projects with philanthropic donations.

Founded and headquartered in Palo Alto since 1939, HP has 150.000 professional employees in over 170 countries. The fiscal year turnover at the end of October 2006 was 91,7 thousand million dollars.

www.hp.com/it

Tecniche Nuove, publishing house founded in 1960 in Milan, initially committed with a few specialized periodicals, in the course of time has modified and broadened its structure, has taken control of new communication media, has overcome the "single medium" limit, has enlarged its involvement field but is always remained true to the spirit of its own "mission". Tecniche Nuove is a leading enterprise in the field of the industrial publishing. With its specialized periodicals, technical publications, sector trade fairs, online courses and other specific initiatives, Tecniche Nuove is now able to give voice and visibility to thousands of big, medium and small enterprises, which find in its coordinated media a major instrument, often the only one, to successfully get in touch with its own public. After a 50 years activity with an important growth rate, Tecniche Nuove can affirm to have proactively contributed to the growth of the "specific weight" of several industrial sectors.

The MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. MATLAB, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a graphical environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multi-domain dynamic and embedded systems. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on these product families to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and development in automotive, aerospace, electronics, financial services, biotech-pharmaceutical, and other industries. MathWorks products are also fundamental teaching and research tools in the world's universities and learning institutions. Founded in 1984, The MathWorks employs more than 2100 people in 15 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

www.mathworks.it

Transvalor, founded in 1984, is a subsidiary of ARMINES, the organisation which manages the French "Ecole des Mines" multiple research centers. TRANSVALOR, located in Sophia Antipolis (South of France), is specialized in the material forming software domain, based on the research conducted at the Ecole des Mines de Paris (CEMEF). With his main software, Forge, used to simulate hot and cold metal forming, Transvalor is now a reference in the world market. Today our products have been installed in more than 300 sites in Europe, USA, India and Japan. Our customers work in automotive and aeronautic industries, heavy forge, automotive suppliers, chemical industries and many other industries involved in the metal forming. TRANSVALOR is continuously improving the software through a close collaboration with many industrial partners and the CEMEF research center.

www.transvalor.com