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ESI signs a Partnership with PARC, a Xerox company
December 2016 by Marc Jacob
ESI Group announces the
signing of a long-term strategic partnership with PARC, a Xerox company. The partnership initially focuses on expanding and
industrializing PARC’s advanced research project on Fault Augmented Model Extension
(FAME), initiated with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The
partnership encompasses system reliability modeling, system safety assessment,
predictive maintenance, and condition-based maintenance. These capabilities will
come to strengthen the already existing ESI solutions dedicated to helping
industrial manufacturers overcome engineering issues related to complex
cyber-physical systems.
As today’s industrial systems incorporate increasingly complex hardware and software
sub-systems, an integrated model- and data-driven approach has become essential to
address design, validation and operational issues throughout the system design and
operations cycles. Over the years, ESI has been developing coherent and integrated
virtual prototyping solutions that enable industrial customers to virtually
manufacture and evaluate product performance in different environments and use
cases. Today, ESI extends its proposition to smart virtual prototyping; giving its
customers the ability to animate their virtual prototypes and use the latest
technologies, including big data analytics and machine learning, to accurately
predict and manage product operational performance from an early stage.
ESI’s partnership with PARC marks the continuation of ESI’s strategic investments in
system simulation. Indeed, in 2013, ESI acquired the cloud-based system design
specialist CyDesign Labs, based in the Silicon Valley, and more recently the German
company ITI GmbH, developer and vendor of SimulationX, the leading Modelica-based
system simulation application in the field of System Modeling of cyber-physical
systems. ESI has also complemented its data-driven system analytics capabilities by
acquiring earlier this year Mineset Inc., specialized in web-based visual analytics
and machine-learning and also based in the Silicon Valley. The research projects
conducted in collaboration with PARC will accelerate the development of hybrid
virtual prototyping and data-driven analytics solutions to maximize the useful and
operationally reliable lifecycle of the products developed by ESI’s clients
