Visteon Partnership With Fujitsu Will Drive Development Of World-Class CAE Technologies
22.10.1999, 10:16
DEARBORN, Mich. (PROTEXT) - Visteon Automotive Systems has
enlisted the expertise of a new partner in developing the world's
most advanced computer-aided engineering (CAE) technology.
Visteon has partnered with Fujitsu Ltd., a leading information
technology corporation in Kawasaki, Japan, to develop and deploy
leading-edge automotive CAE applications.
The agreement pairs Visteon's technical expertise in the
design, simulation and manufacturing of automotive climate
control systems with Fujitsu's world-class computational analysis
capabilities. It will help Visteon improve its product
development cycle times by increasing the use and accuracy of
advanced CAE modeling in the design process.
"Once again, Visteon has partnered with a world-class
organization to insure that it can meet the demands of customers
around the world," said Craig Muhlhauser, president, Visteon
Automotive Systems. "The technical collaboration that this
agreement will generate has the potential to push the entire
automotive industry to a new level of vehicle design and
development. This is exactly the kind of leading-edge result
Visteon expects to drive for its customers."
Fujitsu will develop exclusive hardware and software
applications for Visteon that will allow the organization to
optimize its use of CAE modeling technologies. Visteon will serve
as a beta site for new hardware and software applications
relating to vehicle level modeling tools. Visteon, in return,
will provide Fujitsu with detailed evaluations of the stability,
effectiveness and usefulness of these applications and will
assist the Japanese corporation in the development of simulation-
based design systems for non-related automotive programs.
Visteon will use Fujitsu hardware and software to power two of
its key simulation technologies -- the Unified Parametric Vehicle
System (UPV) and the Interior Climate Comfort Engineering System
(ICCE). UPV is used to optimize front-end airflow and perform
vehicle exterior aerodynamics analysis. UPV data is critical to
establish the amount of heat loss or gain from a vehicle body.
ICCE allows engineers to design automotive interior climate
control systems that optimize passenger comfort and climate
control system performance. ICCE includes CAE methodologies such
as parametric solid models, solar load models, warm-up and
refrigeration cycle models, and analysis of the vehicle interior,
airflow and temperature. In addition, ICCE includes the
capability to correlate airflow and temperature to passenger
comfort.
The ICCE system is used to reduce the amount of climate
control wind tunnel and "down the road" testing required for
vehicle development.
"The agreement we have reached with Fujitsu will allow us to
really push the development and use of some key simulation
technologies," said Frank Croskey, vice president, Visteon
Climate Control Systems. "This offers us a critical competitive
advantage -- we are developing vehicle solutions based on
remarkably accurate virtual simulation rather than field testing.
This takes a great deal of time and cost out of the process while
building in a new level of quality and predictability."
With a global delivery system of more than 125 technical,
manufacturing, sales and service facilities located in 21
countries, Visteon Automotive Systems is leveraging the talents
of its 77,000 employees to deliver innovative, consumer-driven
systems solutions to its customers. ots Original Text Service:
Visteon Automotive Systems Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de
Contact: Media Inquiries: Cheryl Eberwein, 313-248-6321,
ceberwei@visteon.com, or Analyst Inquiries: Kent Niederhofer,
313-390-1467, kniederh@visteon.com, both of Visteon Automotive
Systems Web site: http://www.visteon.com
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