EnginSoft INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2011 CAE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRYand ANSYS Italian Conference

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is a world leader in software, services, and internet technologies for personal and business computing. If offers a complete range of products and services to achieve better results in anyone's activity, thanks to software - in any time, in any place and with any device. In July 2006 Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the first Microsoft software specifically designed to perform HPC parallel applications and to allow users to solve complex calculations. Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003 speeds up both analysis time and users' comprehension, offering a reliable computating platform for high-performance computing, which is easy to implement, manage and integrate with the network and the already existing tools.

www.microsoft.com

IBM Corporate is leader in the innovation, development and production for most advanced I/T technologies. The head quarter is in Armonk, NY, and more than 390thousands employees operate in more than 170 countries. Over than 65% of revenue is by countries outside of US which confirms its pervasive presence around the world. IBM owned by 16 years the leadership in number of patents per year in I/T outperforming all major I/T companies in the world.
IBM has a wide solution portfolio focusing on technical computing and addressing hardware and software architectures to design and to manage scalable infrastructure for computing. Its own solutions integrate proprietary microprocessor architecture, as the recently announced POWER7, or x86 microprocessor architecture. In addition, several partnerships have been actively established with selected hardware technology providers and ISVs to propose the most effective solutions in a coherent vision in the segment of technical computing.

www.ibm.com

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).

www.cadfem.de

DYNAmore is dedicated to support and distribute LS-DYNA, LS-OPT, LS-PREPOST, GENESIS and related software products for crash analysis, metal forming, optimization, and CAE process integration. With the German based company, LS-DYNA users in several European countries have convenient and effective access to the vast experience in LS-DYNA available at DYNAmore, which assures a qualified support for the users.
More than 100 customers from the automotive industry rely on the competence of DYNAmore in the field of LS-DYNA support, dummy modeling and general FEA consulting. Due to the long lasting experience with LS-DYNA and their cooperation with LSTC, DYNAmore is able to offer customers a profound and deep knowledge of every aspect around LS-DYNA.
Among the customers are car manufacturers, automotive supplier and small companies developing components or consulting companies offering FEM analyses with LS-DYNA.

www.dynamore.de

Since its establishment in 2002, E4® Computer Engineering designs and manufactures high performance systems which aim to accomplish both industrial and scientific research requirements and reach a variety of customers ranging from universities to computing centers. Thanks to the established experience and the outstanding quality of its products, E4® is acknowledged and appreciated as a valuable technology supplier by famous and prestigious organizations such as C.E.R.N. in Geneva or the EPFL in Lausanne to name but a few. We design each system individually, after a thorough analysis of the buyer's requirements and we make avail of our strong and solid partnership with the most important technology vendors, to deliver highly personalized, cost effective and power saving solutions which are always subjected to a stress test treatment before reaching the customer's HQ.
E4® Computer Engineering S.p.A. specializes in the manufacturing of high performance IT systems of medium and high range. Our products aim to accomplish both industrial and scientific research requirements and space from universities to computing centers. Thanks to the established experience and quality in this circle, E4® has become a valued technology's supplier and it is acknowledged and appreciated by famous and prestigious organizations such as C.E.R.N. in Geneva.Our thorough working methods, the excellent before and after sales assistance and the continuous investments in new resources for the research and development of highly advanced solutions, have placed our Company amongst some of the most important European players in this Industry as well as earning us partnerships with the best International brands. We design and manufacture our systems with a great deal of attention to the requirements of each customer and we follow every step of the project to ensure made-to-measure solutions for any circumstance: from the web server to the complete data center.

www.e4company.com

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 the modeling of complex multi-phase materials. e-Xstream develops and commercializes DIGIMAT suite of software, a state-of-the-art multi-scale material modeling approach that fasten the development of optimal composite materials and parts used by material suppliers and end users across the industries; automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, industrial equipments, leisure, biomedical, Š DIGIMAT is an efficient predictive toolset used by CAE engineers, materials scientists, chemists,... to design innovative and optimal composite materials and parts time and cost efficiently. Relying on micromechanical approaches, the nonlinear behavior pf complex multi-phase composite materials is accurately predicted. The coupling of the material description with commercial CAE codes such as ANSYS allows for a precise modeling of the behavior of composite structures.

www.e-xstream.com

We realize software and services for reactive business intelligence, interactive visualization, Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (a combination of modeling, machine learning and optimization). Our competitive edge is caused by a unique integration of automated learning and optimization, to facilitate the interaction between domain experts, decision makers, and "reactive" software. The founders and collaborators have more than twenty years of experience and a track of successful real-world applications in wide different areas.

LIONsolver
Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN means combining learning with modeling and problem-solving / optimization. A crucial component of LIONsolver is Reactive Search Optimization (RSO), a robust and efficient method for solving difficult problems. The word reactive hints at a ready response to events while alternative solutions are tested. Its strength lies in the introduction of high-level skills often associated to the human brain, such as learning from the past experience, learning on the job, rapid analysis of alternatives, ability to cope with incomplete information, quick adaptation to new situations and events. This is the main inspiration source for inserting online machine learning techniques into the optimization engine of LIONsolver. This is why we call it "the LION with a HUMAN touch".

Grapheur
Grapheur is the software for data analysis developed by Reactive Search. Grapheur is a one-of-a-kind product, designed and developed following the fundamental concepts of analytical accuracy, innovative visualization and ease of use. Using a simple matrix as input data (organized in a csv file) Grapheur guarantees full compatibility with any existing database or BI system already in use. A vast variety of classical analysis, like histograms, graphs, plots and charts is calculated and displayed quickly in a simple, yet captivating way. Similarity maps and 7D plots are the advanced features of the program: if there is a way to easily search for information inside your data and to present the results with effective and eye-catching visualizations, Grapheur lets you find it.

www.reactive-search.com

From the very beginning, MAXON has always been one of the first developers of 3D software to integrate important new technologies into its applications. MAXON demonstrated its ability to create fast, stable and easy to learn applications with its very first product. Multiprocessor support, multithreading, hyperthreading and DualCore support are just a few of the technologies MAXON has integrated into its applications over the years.
CINEMA 4D is the first professional graphics software that completely supports the Mac OS X Leopard's 64-bit capabilities for Intel and PowerPC processors.

CINEMA 4D Studio is the very best that MAXON has to offer for professional 3D artists. If you want to create advanced 3D graphics but need a helping hand to ensure you create jaw-dropping graphics quickly and easily, then this is the choice for you.

SoftBody Dynamics

Use soft bodies whenever you want dynamic objects to change shape during collision or be affected by other elements. CINEMA 4D Studio's soft bodies are much more than just wobbly shapes - they can, for example, also be inflated. The soft bodies' parameters are so variable that they can be used to simulate almost any type of material.

CINEMA 4D Studio's Dynamics contain much more than just rigid and soft bodies. You can use connectors like hinges, cardans and springs to let objects interact. Angular or linear motors can move your objects without the need of setting keyframes. Torque and speed can be set individually, of course.

www.grmstudio.it

Link engineering Srl is a consultancy firm providing PCB design services and assembled prototypes.
We value honest, long-term relationships with our customers, and strive to become an extension of their design and production processes.
With over 10,000 archived part numbers and our know-how and expertise, we are able to guarantee a result that meets the requirements of all applicable technological standards.
Our 20 members of technical staff, all industrial engineering experts, in our offices in MILAN – BOLOGNA – GENOA – ROME offer consultancy services to our Customers for anything related to: Pcb layout design - Signal and Power integrity analysis - Thermal analysis - Mecatronics design - Virtual prototype – Fast prototype – Manufacturing.

www.linkengineering.it

M3E is the acronym of “Mathematical Methods and Models for Engineering”. The company is a spin-off of the University of Padova with the development and the application of advanced mathematical models and software for the optimal solution of several problems usually encountered in civil, environmental and industrial engineering as core business.
In particular, M3E aims at developing numerical software for the discretization of partial differential equations, linear algebra, optimization and data analysis for several engineering applications. Along with the software, M3E offers consulting services in the field of structural analysis, surface and underground environmental processes, management of water resources, transport and diffusion of contaminants in fresh water aquifers, exploitation of oil and gas reservoir, subsidence and its possible mitigation.
The solutions and the software provided by M3E are designed and developed on the specific problem and on the customer’s hardware, so as to accelerate the design process and the production, to reduce errors and to improve the overall quality of the final product.

www.m3eweb.it

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.

www.nafems.org

NICE is a company focused on products and solutions for Technical Computing, with a solution portfolio covering several different areas like: Technical Computing Portals, Grid and HPC, Cloud Computing, Remote visualization, Software as a Service, Data exchange and collaboration.
NICE develops the industry-leading EnginFrame Grid & Cloud portal, delivering user-friendly, highly customizable access to applications and infrastructures required for CAE processes. For the CAE engineer this means smart access to job submission & monitoring tasks, input & output data associated with applications for Fluid-Dynamics, Structural Analysis and Design Collaboration. Without the need for cryptic job submission commands or knowledge of complex compute infrastructures.
NICE' latest offering EnginFrame Views, gives CAE engineers an integrated solution to access, load balance and manage CAE simulations and desktop sessions running within a Visualization Farm.
EnginFrame has a long history of usage in some of the most prestigious manufacturing organizations worldwide including Aerospace companies like AIRBUS, Alenia Space, CIRA, Galileo Avionica, Hamilton Sunstrand, Magellan Aerospace, MTU and Automotive companies like Audi, ARRK, Brawn GP, Bridgestone, Bosch, Delphi, Elasis, Ferrari, FIAT, GDX Automotive, Jaguar-LandRover, Lear, Magneti Marelli, McLaren, P+Z, RedBull, Swagelok, Suzuki, Toyota, TRW.

www.nice-software.com

Key to Metals, the most comprehensive metal properties database in the world. With over 4 million records for 160.000 metal alloys, powerful Web and desktop search functionalities, and unique proprietary algorithms for metal identification and cross-referencing, Key to Metals daily provides solutions and savings to engineers and designers worldwide. In addition, new Key to Metals Extended Range offers absolutely unique material data essential for advanced FEA calculations. Examples include stress-strain curves for calculations in the plastic range, fatigue parameters, fracture mechanics data and more.

www.keytometals.com

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

Moldex3D is the world leading CAE product for the plastics injection molding industry. With the best-in-class analysis technology, Moldex3D can help you to in-depth simulate the widest application range of injection molding processes to optimize product design and manufacturability, shorten time-to-market, and maximize product ROI. Among the Moldex3D product lines, eXplorer is a CAD-embedded product that allows CAD users to perform quick filling analysis for designing better plastic parts; eDesign is suite of tools that helps you to simulate your part and mold designs before manufacturing begins; eDesignSYNC is an eDesign interface fully embedded in CAD software to bring a seamless workflow from design to Moldex3D simulation. Solid/Shell is a complete series of advanced engineering simulation tools for in-depth analysis and optimization of the most advanced molding processes.

www.moldex3d.com

Kilometro rosso

Kilometro Rosso Science Park is a managed environment that plays host to a wealth of companies, research centres, laboratories, high-tech manufacturing facilities and providers of innovation services. The Park is a multi-disciplinary campus that leverages the diversity of its occupants in order to promote dialogue between the worlds of academia, enterprise and science. Kilometro Rosso also taps the potential of complementary operations and specialisations, implementing an inter-disciplinary approach with a view to reaching new frontiers in science and technology.
The Park’s Mission is to promote the development of a hub of knowledge, innovation and high technology by creating a rendezvous point for innovation-driven companies and for scientific and R&D centres focusing on advanced technologies.
Each research centre, company or laboratory operating within the Park is given the opportunity to exploit all relevant synergies, collaborations and relationships, and it has access to a wide range of value-added services.
Kilometro Rosso can count on the presence of 35 companies from different sectors: automotive, biotechnologies, engineering, advanced materials, mechatronics, design, energy&environment, ICT, and many more, with some 1,500 R&D specialists. Kilometro Rosso is fast becoming one of the most successful science Park of its type and its expansion plans are highly ambitious: the Park will play host to at least 3,000 employees within 5-6 years (researchers and other highly qualified personnel), and with 60-70 companies sited within the complex.
Recently Kilometro Rosso was credited by CENSIS (Report 2009) as one of the top 10 excellence places for Innovation in Italy.

www.kilometrorosso.it

Founded in 1990, ITI is a major provider of virtual engineering systems. The company develops simulation software for engineer-designers and scientists in industry and education, while also offering development and engineering services.
ITI simulation solutions are used by over 850 companies around the world in sectors such as automotive, energy, precision instruments, aeronautics, mechanics, and shipbuilding.
SimulationX enables users to model the interaction of multi-domain system components in order to simulate both dynamic and static behavior. Leveraging pre-defined model libraries (1D and multi-body) in mechanics, hydraulics, pneumatics, thermal science, thermodynamics, electrics, electronics and magnetics, SimulationX makes it possible to study, analyze, and optimize complex technology systems. SimulationX fully supports the Modelica® language, offering a wide range of CAx interfaces and export options for major real-time platforms.

www.simulationx.com

Openeering is the EnginSoft business unit dedicated to the open source software for engineering and applied mathematics. Our mission is to provide consultancy, training and to promote the adoption of open source technologies by the industry.
Over the last years the Openeering team has acquired a wide expertise on the application of the Scilab framework to industrial problems: for this reason Scilab Enterprises, the service company for Scilab software, has recently chosen EnginSoft as Scilab Professional Partner.
Openeering aims to develop partnerships with selected companies, based on the open source software business model, increasing the value of EnginSoft competencies, know how, and completing its offer.

www.openeering.com

Unilab Laboratori Industriali s.r.l., located in Monselice (PD), is a technical provider of full-service Metrology which has been serving Italian industries over the last 11 years. Services such as calibration, testing, consulting, education and training are main of Unilab’s service offerings. As concerns calibrations, Unilab offers traceable in-house and on-site calibration of dimensional and pressure measuring instruments. A wide range of systems (tactile Zeiss CMM, measuring 6 axis arm, optical and laser portable systems, roundness and profilometer tester) can assure a complete set of metrological instruments for a detailed and precise inspection activity. New services focused on product development support for our customers are available since 2011: Metallography and Computed Tomograpy (CT) analisys. The highly trained and dedicated employees support about 400 customers throughout Italy. Unilab’s markets cover the Automotive, Manufacturing, Aerospace and Biomedical markets.

www.unilab.info

WENZEL Volumetrik is a leading innovator of industrial computed tomography technology. It provides powerful and precise devices for carrying out non-contact, nondestructive three dimensional measurements. In 2009, the innovative exaCT M Workstation was introduced which has set a new industry standard in terms of performance, compactness, ergonomics and design. The desktop CT systems exaCT S and exaCT XS were introduced in 2010 and 2011. The applications of the exaCT® machines are non-destructive testing and metrology. Both internal and external structures can be measured. The analysis range from material analysis, assembly testing, dimensional control, wall thickness analysis right up to reverse engineering.
WENZEL Volumetrik is part of the family-owned WENZEL Metrology Group which is one of the world’s leading providers of high-precision coordinate and gear measurement technology along with industry leading measurement software.

www.wenzel-italia.it