2013 News - 16 December

Ferrari successfully completes the installation of DiM (Driver in Motion)

Marburg, Dec 16th, 2013 – VI-grade, the leading provider of best-in-class software products and services for advanced applications in the field of system-level simulation, today announced that Ferrari completed the installation of the revolutionary motion platform named DiM (Driver in Motion) designed by VI-grade and engineered and manufactured by Saginomiya. In detail, the new dynamic platform for the driving simulator has been successfully installed at the Ferrari Gestione Industriale site in Maranello, Italy and will from now on be used for developing, testing and optimizing new vehicle models, according to the new trend in the automotive industry, allowed by the accuracy and efficiency of Real Time simulation solutions provided by VI-grade.

“The installation of DiM has been successfully completed in full respect of our original plans. The system completely meets our specifications and expectations and represents the perfect complement to our existing engineering process”, said Marco Fainello, Head of the Car Performance Simulation at Ferrari. “Leveraging the experience developed with Formula 1, we will be using from now on the driving simulator for road car development to optimize traditional passive performance with including active system electronics, with the purpose to anticipate driver comments much before the real prototype is built”.

“We are extremely happy to report the completion of this very important activity at Ferrari with our Dynamic Driving Simulator”, said Guido Bairati, Sales Director, VI-grade. “We are looking forward to a continuous and successful usage of DiM at Ferrari, helping the company to improve their excellent cars even further and in shorter time, while providing us with precious feedback to further improve our driving simulation solution.”

The driving simulator is based on the usage of VI-CarRealTime, VI-grade’s flagship solution for real-time vehicle dynamics simulation. The vehicle model is used to calculate the real-time response to the driver’s inputs; the vehicle motions are processed and transformed into feasible platform motions by VI-MotionCueing; actuator movement is eventually calculated on the fly by platform controller.

About Saginomiya

Saginomiya is the leading provider of automatic controls and test systems in Japan as and is very highly reputed throughout the world for the quality of its products. Saginomiya started developing, manufacturing and selling test systems in 1964, expanding in several business fields such as civil engineering and construction, industrial machinery, railway services, power generation, aviation and automotive. Saginomiya’s “Dynamic Servo” has been developed as the ideal test systems utilizing state-of-the-art core technologies such as electric and hydraulic hybrids as well as a next-generation simulator. Saginomiya is are highly committed to serve the needs of the most technically advanced customers in the global market. For further information, click here.

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2013 News - 28 November

VI-grade supplies software solutions for masters in railway systems at Universidad Comillas

Marburg, Nov 28th, 2013 – VI-grade, the leading provider of best-in-class products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical simulation, today announced that Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE, a leading European University located in Madrid, has selected the VI-grade suite of railway related solutions based on VI-Rail as strategic tool for its Railway Systems Master initiative.

The Master course is designed for engineers and science graduates wishing to work in the railway sector, as well as for working professionals from the sector who wish to enhance their training. In order to keep up with the various areas covered, students are advised to devote plenty of time and effort to the modules, if they study the full program: however, class schedules are compatible with a reasonably demanding work schedule.

“We are excited about the technology offered by VI-grade for the railway industry,” says Antonio Fernández, Director of the Masters initiative. “Talgo, one of the main industry partners of our initiative, will contribute with their knowledge in this area, sharing its yearly experience with VI-Rail as simulation tool for their development activities.”

“Railway industry represents a strategic market for Spain,” says Mikel Garbizu, Analysis y Simulacion. “Masters like this one at Comillas ICAI leverage very well trained engineers to the industry. We are looking forward to supporting this important course with our skills and competences in simulation software and services for the railway industry.”

“We are happy to report another very interesting initiative of our company in the railway industry,” says Guido Bairati, Sales Director, VI-grade. “We are looking forward the rich suite of commercial partners of the initiative providing our VI-Rail solution as tool to teach students how to efficiently perform accurate system-level general dynamics analysis for railway systems.”

About VI-Rail

VI-Rail is the specialized railway simulation software from VI-grade. VI-Rail enables to quickly build a complete, parameterized model of a new railway vehicle, easily define its suspension, wheelset, wheel-rail contact and other vital characteristics. Running through a battery of simulations, it is possible to determine the vehicle’s stability, derailment safety clearance, track load, passenger comfort, and more. The performance of a railway vehicle design can be optimized virtually in the computer, before cutting a single piece of metal or running a single physical test. VI-Rail users can instantly see the effects of design changes on railcar performance in high-speed animation, easily detecting component interferences, excessive wear, instability, and performance limitations. Users can also plot key parameters in graphs to compare results from different designs. For additional information, click here.

About Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Comillas is a University of the Church, run for over a century by the Society of Jesus, the private entity that has the largest number of universities under its care in the world. As part of our university mission, the university has always successfully combined an educational experience based on tradition and the continuous updating demanded by social change. Today more than ever, due to the difficult economical circumstances, it is essential to have good communication between a university and society: this is why Comillas is constantly and closely working alongside business, professional and social organizations. For additional information, click here.

About Analysis Y Simulacion

Analisis y Simulacion is an R&D Engineering company, which delivers engineering solutions in the Virtual Product Development field across Spain. The expertise acquired over the years has become a valuable asset, and gained the recognition of the customers. The company has consolidated its presence and growth over the years reaching 73 people in this field. Analisis y Simulacion offers expertise to correlate the world of numerical simulation and the physical testing environment with the most advanced engineering tools: Instrumentation, Data Acquisition, Testing and Simulation Software. For additional information, click here.

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2013 News - 23 September

Škoda Transportation selects VI-grade railway solutions

Marburg, Sept 23rd, 2013 – VI-grade, the leading provider of best-in-class products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical simulation, today announced that ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION, a professional manufacturer of various kinds of passenger coaches located in Plzen, Czech Republic, selected the VI-grade suite of railway solutions, based on VI-Rail.

The company, that produces streetcars, electric locomotives, electric multiple units and rapid transit train systems, will use VI-Rail, and in particular the newly released VI-Rail Wear toolkit, to simulate and optimize the performance of tramcars, EMUs, locomotives and metro, with particular attention to the possibility of reducing the occurrence of wheel wear.

“We are excited about the technology offered by VI-grade for the railway industry,” says Václav Kraus, Ph.D. - Senior research engineer, ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION a.s. “Our company, a professional railway vehicle manufacturer, will use the VI-Rail solution to identify the best suspension and wheel profile settings in order to lead to increase of mileage of wheel until the necessity of re-profiling.”

“We are very happy to report another important commercial success in the European railway industry,” says Guido Bairati, Sales Director, VI-grade. “This demonstrates the efficiency of our development strategies, aimed to provide to new and existing customers a suite of solutions aligned with their most advanced engineering needs. We are looking forward to a continuous a fruitful collaboration with Škoda!”

About VI-Rail

VI-Rail is the specialized railway simulation software from VI-Grade. VI-Rail enables to quickly build a complete, parameterized model of a new railway vehicle, easily define its suspension, wheelset, wheel-rail contact, and other vital characteristics. Running through a battery of simulations it is possible to determine the vehicle’s stability, derailment safety clearance, track load, passenger comfort, and more. The performance of a railway vehicle design can be optimized virtually in the computer, before cutting a single piece of metal or running a single physical test. VI-Rail users can instantly see the effects of design changes on railcar performance in high-speed animation, easily detecting component interferences, excessive wear, instability, and performance limitations. Users can also plot key parameters in graphs to compare results from different designs. For additional information, please visit www.vi-grade.com/index.php?pagid=rail.

About Skoda Transportation

ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION is a traditional Czech company engaged in the field of transport engineering, with a strong position in both domestic and world markets. Establishment of ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION is connected with the specialization restructuring and financial restructuring of the company resulting in acquisition of a strategic owner. ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION and its subsidiaries are focused on the transport engineering industry, its key products include low-floor trams, electric locomotives, subway trains, suburban train units and trolleybuses, as well as traction motors or complete driving gears for transport systems. The ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION group of companies has more than four thousand employees. Škoda experts develop, produce and supply top products customized to the needs and wishes of its customers. Successful investments in new product lines are, along with sales ensured for the long term and the company’s financial stability, proof that ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION ranks among the top European companies in its industry. For additional information, please visit: http://www.skoda.cz.

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2013 News - 29 August

Showa adopts VI-CarRealTime and VI-Motorcycle for successful development of new products

Marburg, Aug 29th, 2013 – VI-grade, the leading provider of best-in-class products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical simulation, today announced that Showa Corporation, Japanese supplier for the transportation industry with a particular focus on automotive and motorcycle components, selected VI-CarRealTime and VI-Motorcycle, the specialized real-time vehicle simulation and motorcycle simulation environments from VI-grade, as preferred CAE system-level simulation technologies for their product development process. In detail, Showa Corporation has been using VI-CarRealTime and VI-Motorcycle Plus Packages since more than two years to successfully develop new products thanks to the powerful functionalities offered by these solutions.

Showa Corporation widely utilizes software products and professional support from VI-grade in the development process of their new products for the automotive and the motorcycle racing industries, for example new variable dampers, new EPS steering and MOTO GP racing study for motorcycles. Showa has also recently completed with success the development of a new high-performance and low-cost conventional-variable damper component.

“Thanks to the VI-grade simulation technologies, our company could succeed to improve the accuracy and optimize the duration of our development cycles for areas such as steering, damper and drivetrains” said Mr. Hirata, Managing Director of Showa Corp. “Currently, we plan to utilize actual VPG and road load data into our simulation process, maximizing the use of simulation technologies in order to further shorten the development time of our products.”

“We are excited about the cooperation with Showa,” says Shunichi Yamauchi, Managing Director, VI-grade Japan. “The success obtained by Showa demonstrates the efficiency of our VI-CarRealTime and VI-Motorcycle solutions in virtually optimizing the design of transportation components. We are looking forward to further contributing to the success of the Showa development team!”

Showa will offer a special opportunity to demonstrate and present their new products (with particular reference to damper, steering, drivetrain components and to the use of the VI-grade solutions as part of their development process) in Frankfurt, Germany in a hotel adjacent to the Frankfurt Motor Show to be held from Sept 10th to Sept 13th, 2013 (please contact the Showa Germany R&D Center at +49 - 6103 - 3106111 for additional information and to confirm your participation to the presentations)

About VI-CarRealTime

VI-CarRealTime provides a vehicle simulation environment where the same simplified vehicle model can be used by vehicle dynamics and controls engineers to optimize vehicle and control system performance. The product enables engineers to quickly and easily perform large Design of Experiments (DOE) and multi-objective optimization studies. VI-CarRealTime is the only real-time solution available in the market that can automatically and seamlessly export a real-time vehicle model directly from ADAMS/Car™. Similarly, VI-CarRealTime also enables to share component property files such as tires, springs, dampers, and bumpstops with ADAMS/Car™. VI-CarRealTime provides validated models which can be used by controls and hydraulic engineers to optimize the controller design based on accurate vehicle performance. VI-CarRealTime can be integrated with Matlab Simulink for controls systems. For further information click here.

About VI-Motorcycle

With VI-Motorcycle, the specialized simulation environment for motorcycle design and testing, an engineering team can quickly build and simulate a complete parameterized model of a motorcycle in order to select fundamental design options and to explore new functional concepts prior to building physical prototypes. VI-Motorcycle is based on the MSC Adams solver and fully supported by VI-grade developers. It provides common methods throughout corporations and suppliers for modeling and design practices. Due to its scalability and extendibility it can be customized easily in order to fit into the development process. For further information click here.

About Showa Corporation

Showa is a leading supplier of automotive and motorcycle components. Headquartered in the city of Gyoda, Japan, Showa responds to its customer demands with the corporate mission statement, “We target Showa as global trusted company. We will continuously innovate ourselves and provide leading products based on high level technologies and quality to meet users’ needs”. For additional information, click here.

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2013 News - 16 July

RML Group selects VI-CarRealTime for its successful Cruze World Touring Car Championship programme

Marburg, Jul 16th, 2013 – VI-grade, the leading provider of best-in-class products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical simulation, today announced that RML Group, the UK-based leading high performance automotive engineering and multi-discipline motorsport organization, has selected VI-CarRealTime, the specialized real-time vehicle simulation environment from VI-grade, to optimize the design of their vehicles, to support and further develop the high level of engineering and operational success of its racing programs. In detail, RML is starting to use VI-CarRealTime from VI-grade for a number of projects, but primarily on the very successful Chevrolet Cruze competing in the FIA World World Touring Car Championship (WTCC).

“Track time is very limited in the WTCC, meaning accurate and detailed preparation is key. VI-CarRealTime helps us in the preparation for each race, but also in the analysis of development ideas and proposals which ultimately lead to the car going faster around the track” says Chris Cronin, Race Engineer WTCC, RML Group. “The value of VI-CarRealTime to RML is significant, adding understanding and validation to vehicle development projects, optimization of the numerous set-up parameters on the cars before arriving at a circuit and importantly building up the engineering knowledge and understanding within the company.”

“We are very excited about the collaboration with RML Group” says Diego Minen, Technical Director of VI-grade. “We are looking forward to continue supporting the success of this important racing team, part of the community of our customers belonging to the racing industry.”

About VI-CarRealTime

About RML Group

RML is one of the world’s leading high performance automotive engineering companies. In competition RML specializes in delivering Touring Car, GT, Sports Prototype and off-road programs in major motorsport series for global automotive brands. RML has won multiple World-Championships for its partners and has a winning pedigree in every series in which it has competed over the past twenty years. The RML designed and built Cruze has won the 2010, 2011 and 2012 World Touring Car Championship and applies this nimble, innovative and winning mindset to also developing high performance road car derivatives and advanced automotive engineering solutions for OEMs. RML is also leading the 2013 World Championship.

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2013 News - 24 June

Michelotto Automobili selects VI-grade real-time solutions

VI-grade, the leading provider of best-in-class products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical simulation, today announced that Michelotto Automobili, the Italian company responsible for the design, realization and development of prototypes of road cars and competition automobiles, selected VI-CarRealTime, the specialized real-time vehicle simulation environment from VI-grade, to support the virtual tuning process of their cars. In detail, the Michelotto engineering team has been using VI-CarRealTime since more than one year to simulate the behavior of their modified racing cars in order to minimize on-track physical testing and to optimize dynamic behavior on different road and driver conditions.

“We were looking for a reliable solution that could enable us to easily optimize vehicle setups of our racing cars”, says Mattia Vendramin, vehicle dynamics engineer at Michelotto Automobiles. “The functionalities offered by VI-CarRealTime enable us to quickly and easily investigate the effect of the design modifications to suspensions and engines that we introduce in our cars in order to make their behavior more suitable to the competitions.”

“We are happy to report this important activity in the automotive industry,” says Guido Bairati, Sales Director, VI-grade. “This demonstrates the efficiency of our VI-CarRealTime solution in virtually optimizing vehicle setup configurations in a quick and reliable manner. We are looking forward to contributing to future racing victories of the Michelotto team!”

About VI-CarRealTime

About Michelotto

Michelotto was founded in Padua, Italy in 1969 and since its beginning it was responsible for competition cars, making it a protagonist since 1971 with the victory of the Italian Turismo Championship Gr.1 Class 850. Michelotto continued its series of successes in 1973 with the debut in the Italian Championship Rally of the Stratos that won five Italian Championships and more than 30 absolute victories. During the following years the relation with Ferrari was established using the 308 GR 4 in the rallies, that lead to several additional absolute victories, including two Targa Florio, two Tour De France, an Italian Championship Rally and a Spanish one. After rallies victories Michelotto moved to sport prototype and GT race first with Ferrari F40 and then with the responsibility for development of 333 SP (that won 2 IMSA WSC and 4 FIA Sportscar Championship). Since 2000 Michelotto worked on Ferrari V8 cars: F360, F430 and F458 that actually run in all major GT championship with various victories in GT class ( included 3 times victory of GT2 class at Le Mans 24H, 4 times victory of Sebring 12h and 3 times victory of Petit Le Mans). Michelotto is responsible for the design, realization and development of prototypes of road cars and competition automobiles from engine to chassis, creating all their components by means of the most advanced systems. The company presently employs more than 80 people, carrying our activities in the following departments: design, machine tools, engines and gears, shop assembly, and administration. It is a structure that allows operating in the automotive environment to be done in a complete manner. For additional information, please click here.

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2013 News - 11 June

VI-grade announces a strategic development partnership with MIRA

Marburg, June 11th, 2013 – VI-grade, the leading provider of best-in-class products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical simulation, today announced the establishment of a strategic development partnership with MIRA, the UK-based leading automotive design, development & certification consultancy. According to this partnership, MIRA will act as a reference site for the automotive software solutions developed and marketed by VI-grade. This partnership is another step forward in line with VI-grade’s mission of bridging the gap between real-world testing and technical simulation, making these two disciplines two complementary contributions to a new vehicle development process based on hybrid simulation.

In detail, the development partnership calls for MIRA to evaluate the software products developed by VI-grade, providing independent development guidance from a Vehicle Dynamics Engineering perspective – rather than just software engineering. Additionally, MIRA will supply digital data of its MIRA Proving Ground circuits to VI-grade to be used in VI-DriveSim, VI-grade’s innovative driving simulation solution installed both on static and dynamic simulators developed by VI-grade and installed at VI-grade SimCenter in Italy.

“We are excited about the consolidation of our long-lasting collaboration with VI-grade” says Dr Geoff Davis, Chief Commercial & Technical Officer. “In particular, we are looking forward to the joint development of a new software tool aimed to automate the creation of a VI-CarRealTime model to complement the SPMM (K&C rig) service currently provided by our organization.”

“We are very happy to report our strategic partnership with MIRA,” says Guido Bairati, Sales Director, VI-grade. “According to the agreement, we will promote MIRA’s services as part of our worldwide sales and marketing activities, through a series of joint customer visits and the participation to selected trade shows and industry exhibitions.”

About VI-CarRealTime

About MIRA

MIRA is a leading automotive design, development & certification consultancy. A cornerstone of the sector, MIRA delivers tailored solutions ranging from individual tests, to turnkey vehicle design programs. MIRA's customer base includes the major vehicle manufacturers, their Tier 1 & 2 supply chain and other independent consultancies throughout most of the vehicle-producing world. At the UK HQ, a core of over 550 dedicated employees fuse the benefits of 35 major development facilities with advanced design & modeling techniques to slash both development timescales and the requirement to build costly prototypes in quantity. MIRA’s main development center is concentrated into a highly secure 760-acre site in Warwickshire, England. From this base, and 9 others and around the globe, clients access a technically compelling service. Operating across the whole range of transport technologies, MIRA provides particular expertise in electrical/electronic systems, occupant and pedestrian safety, aerodynamics, thermal management, NVH, vehicle dynamics, telematics, powertrain integration and all aspects of durability. MIRA is also responsible for the design and construction of numerous other proving grounds and major development centers worldwide. There can hardly be a more authoritative voice for the automotive industry.

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2013 News - 6 March

Ferrari adopts revolutionary driving simulation technology from VI-grade

Marburg, Mar 6th, 2013 – VI-grade GmbH, the leading provider of best-in-class software products and services for advanced applications in the field of system-level simulation, today announced that Ferrari selected the newly developed motion platform named DiM (Driver in Motion). The new dynamic platform for the driving simulator will be installed later this year at the Ferrari Gestione Industriale site in Maranello, Italy and will be used for testing and optimizing the setup of the GT vehicles developed and marketed by Ferrari.

Leveraging the experience developed with Formula 1, Ferrari will be using the driving simulator for GT and road car development to optimize performance, system integration and driver feeling.

The 9 degrees-of-freedom, newly developed DiM platform has been designed in order to take full advantage of VI-MotionCueing, a very innovative motion cueing strategy developed by VI-grade in collaboration with the University of Padua, Italy and consists of a small-size hexapod mounted on top of a planar frame moving on a very smooth sliding surface by means of an efficient and innovative system based on air pads and magnetic pads. The hexapod has been designed to produce consistent pitch and roll rotations and Z translations, as well as small X and Y translations and Yaw rotation. The consistent X, Y and Yaw movements required to generate the feeling of vehicle accelerations on the driver are instead generated by the base tripod. VI-MotionCueing harmonizes the system motion extending the motion envelope and separating low and high frequency contributions, which makes this type of motion platform suitable for both vehicle dynamics and ride studies.

The driving simulator is based on the usage of VI-CarRealTime, VI-grade’s flagship solution for real-time vehicle dynamics simulation. The vehicle model is used to calculate the real-time response to the driver’s input that is provided to VI-MotionCueing, that in turn produces the inputs to the inverse kinematic program which controls the actuators.

“The DiM solution completely meets our specifications and expectations for a system that represents the perfect complement to our existing engineering process”, said Marco Fainello, Head of the Car Performance Simulation at Ferrari. “We rely on VI-grade software solutions for our automotive system simulations since several years and we are looking forward to realizing the maximum benefits out of the high-resolution simulated motion control capabilities provided by DiM. We are also convinced that the revolutionary 9 degrees-of-freedom motion platform from Saginomiya will allow us to reach the target to improve the tools to optimize both handling and ride of the cars we are developing.”

“Motion platforms architectures for driving simulators have been undergoing a very creative development phase in recent years” said Diego Minen, Technical Director, VI-grade. “The new VI-grade conceptual idea and the platform final design provided by Saginomiya was chosen by Ferrari in place of competitive solutions because its kinematics has shown to be ideal for low/high motion frequencies separation and extremely efficient for implementing our new motion cueing strategy, which has been fine tuned with the help of professional driver’s in our and other simulation centers over the past two years. The combination of DiM mechanical architecture and performance, VI-CarRealTime and VI-MotionCueing characteristics is certainly unique to obtain the best driver motion perception”.

“Since the beginning of our activities, back in 1964, we developed, manufactured and sold different types of test systems and we have established our presence in many different industry sectors such as machinery, railway, aerospace, nuclear power, energy and, above all, automotive” said Akiko Watanobe, Public Relations & Advertisement Section at Saginomiya. “Thanks to our history and our experience, we are now favorably reputed with high reliability in many fields as a comprehensive test system maker worldwide using our core hydraulic and electric technology in our Dynamic Servo product line. This strong background made us becoming the best reliable partner to engineer, manufacture and support a new concept of motion platform such as DiM. We are highly committed to serve the needs of the most technically advanced customers in global market and we are delighted to work with Ferrari and VI-grade in developing such a revolutionary motion platform for driving simulators.”

“We are extremely happy to report this very important commercial success at Ferrari with our VI-DriveSim Dynamic solution”, said Guido Bairati, Sales Director, VI-grade. “Thanks to its expertise in design and production of worldwide known GT cars, Ferrari represents for us the ideal reference for the deployment and the further development of our driving simulation technologies.”About Saginomiya

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2013 News - 27 February

Fiat Do Brasil (Fiasa) adopts VI-grade's STATIC Simulator

Marburg, Feb. 27th, 2013 – VI-grade, the leading provider of best-in-class software products and services for advanced applications in the field of system level simulation, today announced that fiat do Brasil, the Brazilian division of Fiat Group Automobiles, installed VI-DriveSim Static, the breakthrough driving simulator technology developed by VI-grade, at their premises in Belo Horizonte, Brasil. The driving simulator will be used for vehicle set up optimization on different digital versions of existing tracks.

“We are impressed with the technology offered by the STATIC Simulator. We believe that the driving simulator is an important tool for vehicle dynamic developments, improving the ride characteristics and reducing the development time. The possibility of starting the vehicle setup using a real driver before the prototypes is a great opportunity,” said Vinicius Leal, Fiat Automóveis S.A. Engenharia do Produto - Chassi - Cálculo e Simulações Virtuais. “In detail, we will use the solution to test and optimize vehicle dynamics on a digitalized test track provided by VI-grade and in the future our plans is to scan further test tracks in order to be able to virtually test the behavior of our cars in different setups. This kind of high fidelity solution using hardware in the loop in a dynamic simulator is ideal to use as a development tool for our dynamic engineers.”

“Automotive transportation represents a strategic market in our country and we are happy that an important reference such as Fiat do Brasil has selected Multicorpos as strategic partner for the implementation of a virtual prototyping process based on VI-grade's driving simulators,” said Alvaro Costa Neto, Managing Director, Multicorpos Engenharia. “We are looking forward to supporting the local branch of Fiat Group Automobiles in getting the most advantage out of this exciting simulation solution.”

“We are extremely happy to report the first successful installation of our STATIC Simulator in South America”, said Guido Bairati, Sales Director, VI-grade. “This demonstrates the efficiency of our commercial strategies in the Americas region, that relies on a network of experienced and respected resellers. We are looking forward to a continuous a fruitful collaboration in Brazil!”

STATIC Simulator

The STATIC Simulator by VI-grade is a professional solution that allows OEMs, Tier1 suppliers and Research Institutes to use driving simulator to start bridging the gap between physical testing and simulation. Our STATIC simulator is based on the same VI-DriveSim software package that is used on COMPACT Simulator and on DiM, but is also fully compatible with 3rd party software solutions. This makes it possible to upgrade the static simulator to a dynamic simulator later on, leveraging previous investments.

HMI, Vehicle Dynamics, NVH and ADAS are some of the disciplines that could be developed using a STATIC Simulator by VI-grade. Cylindrical screen and professional projectors make it possible to reach very high level of realism and to give driver an immersive driver experience.

Thanks to the real-time hardware infrastructure, static simulator is also suitable for software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop applications.

Accessory technologies like VI-BioTelemetry, VI-ActiveSeat and VI-ActiveBelts are also fully compatible with Static Simulator.

About Multicorpos

Multicorpos is an exclusive software reseller for CAE analyses in Latin America for the most prestigious companies in these fields, such as MSC Software for structural and dynamic analyses, FEV for virtual engine simulation and VI-grade for specialized system-level simulation solutions. Multicorpos also includes a dedicated service team able to perform advanced dynamic analyses using the computational tool for Multibody Systems by means of MSC.ADAMS. The team also owns expertise in structural analyses using the technique of finite elements simulation as well as in the analysis of fluid systems using computational techniques (CFD). Located in the high tech district of São Carlos, Multicorpos provides counseling support in the business area and relies on qualified human resources through a close relationship with two of the most important universities (UFSCar and USP)

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