TATA ELXSI INKS MOU WITH BELGIAN COMPANY OPEN ENGINEERING

Exclusive partnership to offer powerful and cutting edge CAE solutions in India

New Delhi, September 23, 2008 – Tata Elxsi, the embedded technology arm of the Tata group today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Open Engineering, the R&D subsidiary of the Belgium headquartered Samtech Group, Europe’s leading provider of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software. As per the MoU, Tata Elxsi will be Open Engineering’s exclusive partner in India for the distribution and support of OOFELIE®, a multi-physics numerical simulation professional software dedicated to provide an open powerful but easy to use CAD CAE all-in-one solution for industrial engineering departments and research centers.

The MoU was signed today in the presence of H.E. Jean-Claude Marcourt, Honourable Minister for Economy, Employment, Foreign Trade and Heritage, Government of the Wallonia, Region of Belgium between Mr. Igor Klapka, CEO, Open Engineering and Mr. M.M Prasad, General Manager & Head, System Integration Services, Tata Elxsi Limited.

OOFELIE framework is a design flow software tool for rapid virtual prototyping, parametric simulations, and design optimization for electromechanical systems. It automatically generates meshes from parametric geometries, solves complete multi-physics problems, and provides customized parametric designs. Open Engineering, has developed OOFELIE® for modeling and design of electro, thermal, optical and mechanical systems, integrating electrostatic effects, acoustics, phase change and fluids. Open Engineering also provides project and product design services, and participates in joint industry and academia R&D partnerships for the next generation of sensors and actuators, including micro technologies constraints.

Mr. MM Prasad, General Manager & Head, System Integration Services, Tata Elxsi Limited said, “Increasingly industrial designers and design engineers are looking for cutting edge solutions that can improve product styling and functionalities, enhance product quality and maximize productivity, crunch time to benefit and cost, ensure seamless communication with downstream engineering teams, and incorporate customer feedback loops in the prototype stage itself. The partnership with Open Engineering will enable us to address the growing requirements of the CAE market segments in India such as Automotive, Aerospace, Defence, Research and Education, offering them the support they need when it comes to implementing cost-effective technologically advanced solutions in the shortest possible time “

Mr. Igor Klapka, CEO, Open Engineering said, “By managing an open industrial CAD-CAE multidisciplinary simulation flow, our software products respond to the increasing needs of engineers and designers to have the best advanced fine, accurate and adapted answer to their more and more complex problems, giving them fast, parameterized and industrially improved models’ prototypes. Due to the high technology level of this offer, we need to find high-level market entrance partners. In TATA ELXSI we not only found a technologically trust worthy distributor for India, but also a real partner with industrial added value for our users, which will support them even on the most complex areas like, for example, on thermo mechanical effects, vibro-acoustics radiations, mechanical-optics coupling, fluids-structure interaction, electromagnetic impact, Mems design, piezoelectric systems, etc.”

About Tata Elxsi

Tata Elxsi is the technology arm of the Tata Group, one of India’s largest and most respected business conglomerates with US$ 76.3 billion in market capitalization. The company’s core practice areas cover embedded product design services, industrial design & engineering, animation & VFX services, and systems integration services.

With high quality, cost effective, time-to-market solutions across the product design lifecycle, Bangalore-headquartered Tata Elxsi serves verticals such as networking & communication, automotive, marine, avionics, consumer electronics, media & entertainment, semiconductors, and scientific instrumentation. The company’s strong and multi-faceted team provides expertise in VLSI design, embedded software, networking, telecom, multimedia, storage, visual & high performance computing, mechanical product design and digital content creation services.

Tata Elxsi draws on its knowledge base of over fifteen years in delivering product designs, and a large talent pool of over 3500 technologists. The company’s passion for excellence is backed by SEI CMMi Level 5, ISO 9001: 2000 and BS 7799 certified processes. Tata Elxsi has 13 sales and support offices in India and 20 international offices. This is supported by India development centers in Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram, and a near-shore center in Japan.

About Open Engineering/ Samtech Group

Oofelie®, the “multiphysics” solver dedicated to multiphysics CAE, was born in 1991 in the LTAS ( L T A S), in Belgium. After ten years of developments under the leads of, Igor Klapka, Alberto Cardona, and Michel Geradin , Oofelie® began its industrial life. Open-Engineering was created by Igor Klapka , Pascal De Vincenzo, Alberto Cardona and Michel Geradin in association with SAMTECH sa.The core business of Open-Engineering being to bring Oofelie® Multiphysics to industrial markets, the developments since then were oriented on “strong couplings” and “openness”.

Open-Engineering’s proposes now a suite of solutions adapted to anyone’s needs at any level. The flexibility of this offer is a key element in Open-Engineering’s success. Open-Engineering expands now all around the world.

Contact information
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Tata Elxsi Limited

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