April 26th, 2012

A growing number of high precision optical systems has to perform in harsh conditions. For example, the space and medical industries raise the standards for the design of optical devices that need high dimensional stability, increased accuracy and predictable performances.

That is why in these markets it is often necessary to combine real-life tests with Multiphysics CAE. But a preliminary experimental validation of the numerical solution is mandatory to ensure the very high precision level required for optical applications.

This integrated opto-thermo-mechanic design flow will enable you to speed up the development process and increase the reliability of your devices at a reduced cost.

Seminar given by Open Engineering , AMOS and CSL

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Agenda

• 10h00 Welcome
• 10h30 Introduction: The importance of integrated Opto-Thermo-electro-mechanic design when it comes down to reliability and accuracy (Open Engineering)
• 11h00 Overview of the Opto-mechanic design technology @ AMOS (AMOS)
• 11h30 Break
• 11h45 Experimental characterization of optical devices: Evaluation of the opto-thermo-mechanical CAE techniques that are needed to match the experimental results (CSL)
• 12h30 Conclusion (Open Engineering) - Lunch

Registration

• Please click here to register or express your interest.
• Registration fees 25€
• Payment on the following bank account :
  IBAN : BE22 3400 3398 0047
  BIC : BBRUBEBB
  Name : Technifutur
• Before April 23th, 2012

Venue

www.technifutur.be

March 27th, 2012

MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) conquer our daily lives. They are everywhere: in our cars, at the doctor's office as well as in the plane that takes us to our vacation. But today it lacks an effective response to the demand for reliability of the different actors. In this lecture we will show you how a complete and systematic design flow for MEMS based systems will yield higher quality MEMS based microsystems that are able to operate in harsh environments (temperature, vibration, humidity, corrosion, high voltage ...) while being more power efficient, autonomous and reliable than the classic components they are replacing.

Agenda

• 10h00 Welcome
• 10h30 Introduction: The importance of MEMS-based microsystems for automotive, user electronics, medical and aeronautic design. Opportunities and Challenges (Open Engineering)
• 10h45 The MEMS design flow including an overview of the major production and design centers (SoftMEMS - Open Engineering)
• 11h45 MEMS packaging is crucial for system performance and reliability (Taipro)
• 12h30 Conclusion (Open Engineering)
• 13h00 Lunch
  Optional: Software demonstration &
  cleanroom visit
• Please click here to register or express your interest.
• Registration fees 25€
• Payment on the following bank account :
  IBAN : BE22 3400 3398 0047
  BIC : BBRUBEBB
  Name : Technifutur
• Before March 25th, 2012

Registration

Venue

www.technifutur.be

Open Engineering, a project particpant, has contributed to the presentation of the LIONEL project at Physiol on the 29th of February 2012.

Our contribution consisted in the Mutliphysics CAE of multifocal intraocular implants combining MOLDEX, ZEMAX and OOFELIE::Multiphysics in a single design flow.

The presentation was part of a bigger press conference on the "Pôles de compétitivité". Including other speakers such as C. Pagnoulle, R&D Director at Physiol, O. Dupont owner at Lambda-X and Jean-Claude Marcourt Vice-President and Minister of Economy, SMEs, Trade and New Technologies.

Click here to see video footage from the event.

Please go to the following url at LinkedIn to learn about MEMS design success stories from our partner SoftMEMS

Learning About MEMS

Started by Daniel Payne, EDA Marketing Consultant

15th & 16th November 2011 - Crowne Plaza, Liege Belgium

Following on from the highly successful 2009 Paris User's Conference, 2011 marks several significant celebrations, including the 25th anniversary of SAMTECH, the 10th anniversary of SAMTECH's subsidiary OPEN ENGINEERING and the 50th anniversary of the Aeronautic and Space technics Laboratory of the University of Liège (LTAS) where the first line of SAMCEF and BOSS quattro were written.

We are honoured to welcome TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, EUROCOPTER and SNECMA for our introduction lectures”, said Eric Carnoy, SAMTECH Headquarters's CEO. “They will give attendees an exclusive strategic view on the Virtual Prototyping technologies used in the automotive and aeronautic and sectors. Furthermore, with the international panel of speakers, the SAMTECH Conference 2011 will be a unique place-to-be to discuss the state-of-the-art CAE simulation and analysis projects in the industry”.

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Open Engineering will be present at the Grenoble Innovation Fair on the 20th and 21st of October 2011.

It will be the opportunity for in depth technical discussions on how multiphyiscs simulations respond to the next 20 year Key Enabling Technologies needs.

For more information go to http://www.grenoble-innovation-fair.com/GB_home.html

Pascal De Vincenzo, GM of Open Engineering will present at the Vinas Users Conference on October 20th and 21st, 2011 at the Tokyo Conference Center Shinagawa.

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Open Engineering will present an article on the Experimental validation of opto-thermo-elastic modelling in OOFELIE::MultiPhysics together with the Centre Spatial de Liège and GDTech

Optic test bench results are compared to the predictions obtained by OOFELIE::Multiphysics treating coupled problems of optics, mechanics, thermal physics, electricity, electromagnetism, acoustics and hydrodynamics. From this comparison modelling we implemented to improve the accuracy of computed thermo-elastic distortions and their impact on the optical performances.

For more information, please click on the following link: SPIE - Optical Systems Design

Open Engineering will be present at the NANO KOREA 2011 conference and tradeshow. We will present an article on "The Integrated Design of a MEMS-based Flow-Sensor System" on August 25th in the modeling and simulation section.

We are also present at the tradeshow at the booth A4. We invite you to visit us to find out how Oofelie Multiphyiscs can help you for reliable micro and nano system design work.

A high level of functional integration is critical for successfully building today's smart systems. We will show a high level design flow integration combining tools from Open Engineering for Industrial Multiphysics simulation, SoftMEMS for MEMS technology transfer and Agilent EEsof ADS for circuit design and simulation. Using this flow we will

• Capture all multiphysics interactions and optimize the sensitivity of the sensor
• Simulate the fluid-structure interactions (FSI) together with the electronics circuitry.

The technological integration of the MEMS transducer with an integrated read-out integrated circuit (IC) in CMOS will minimize parasitic elements and thus provide a high resolution.

It wil esnure the system's performance with regards to

• Sensitivity
• Low consumption in view of high autonomy
• Reliability for extended lifetime
• Limiting its cost.

New for 2011!

This course emphasises the coupling between the optical and the structural designs in high precision optical systems, using OOFELIE for Advanced Optics and ZEMAX. Examples of this course will include simple and concrete models such as mirrors, lenses and their mounts.

Course Instructor

Philippe Saint-Georges is development engineer at Open Engineering and is the product manager of the solution OOFELIE for Advanced Optics.

For more information and registration please go to the Optima Research Link.

Paris Air Show
Hall 2B, Stand G49

Come and visit us on our stand!
From 20th to 26th June 2011
Le Bourget, France

Open Engineering will take part as exhibitor in the Paris Air Show 2011 that will be held in Le Bourget (France) from June 20 - 26th, 2011.

At the show we will present our Multiphyiscs CAE capabilities for Sensors and Actuators, Structural Health Monitoring, advanced adaptive opto-thermo-mechanics and Fluid - Multiphyisics Interactions for nozle and wing flutter modeling.

On Wednesday June 1st 2011, the Flanders’ Mechatronics Engineering Centre (FMEC) of the KHBO organizes a seminar concerning the challenges and opportunities for Software Aided Design in the design process of electronics.

MEMS-Based System Solutions: Designs, Tradeoffs and Applications

Erwin De Baetselier – Open Engineering

Click on the link below for the invitation details:

Open Engineering will give a presentation at the 7th Symposium on Aerothermodynamics for Space Vehicles to be held 9-12 May 2011 in Site Oud Sint-Jan in Brugge, Belgium.

The subject of our talk will be "A Strongly Coupled Staggered Approach to Solve Fluid-Structure-Interaction Problems with Thermal and Dynamical Couplings" .

Traditional CFD simulations require highly sensitive settings to obtain converging and reproduceable results and the traditional combination with Multiphysics applications proves to add an even bigger hurdle.

In our talk we will show how you can overcome these problems by using the advanced technological capabilities of the FINE/Oofelie FSI software.: A strongly coupled approach for FSI simulations yields to better convergence and accuracy.

The SAMTECH Group to sign a cooperation agreement with ITMO the National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

Liege, Belgium, March, 2011. OPEN ENGINEERING, the Multiphysics branch of the SAMTECH Group, a leading European provider of simulation software and services, signed a cooperation agreement with the famous Russian University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO). This agreement strengthens the SAMTECH Group position on the Russian market as global CAE software supplier.

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Open Engineering will be present at the Smart Systems Integration Conference in Dresden. We will present an article on "The Integrated Design of a MEMS-based Flow-Sensor System" as well as have a booth at the tradeshow. We invite you to visit us at the tradeshow to find out how Oofelie Multiphyiscs can help you for reliable smart system design work.

A high level of functional integration is critical for successfully building today's smart systems. We will show a high level design flow integration combining tools from Open Engineering for Industrial Multiphysics simulation, SoftMEMS for MEMS technology transfer and Agilent EEsof ADS for circuit design and simulation. Using this flow we will

• Capture all multiphysics interactions and optimize the sensitivity of the sensor
• Simulate the fluid-structure interactions (FSI) together with the electronics circuitry.

The technological integration of the MEMS transducer with an integrated read-out integrated circuit (IC) in CMOS will minimize parasitic elements and thus provide a high resolution.

It wil esnure the system's performance with regards to

• Sensitivity
• Low consumption in view of high autonomy
• Reliability for extended lifetime
• Limiting its cost.

On October 12th, Open Engineering presented at the Space Days. We gave an industry inside presentation on today's challenges combined with an overview of our current activities in the domain.

Releated file New Challenges in Multiphysics Simulations for Space Applications

Open Engineering will be present at the Nano Korea 2010 exhibition. NANO KOREA is the second largest exhibition in the world for nanotechnology.

Indeed, as components are scaling down (e.g. Nanodevices, MEMS), Oofelie truly becomes the simulator of choice for your transducer design: Governing time-constants inside the components reach similar orders of magnitude. This neccessitates Strongly Coupled Simulation techniques for best accuracy and convergence of your results.

Take advantage of our latest developments providing integrated optimized chained and strong couplings of parametrized applications like PiezoPyroElectric, PiezoVibroacoustics, ElectroThermalMagnetics, Thermal Fluid Structure Interaction, Piezo driven Optics, MEMS-MOEMS, MBS, and so much more to discover.

Click here to learn more about the design of Actuators and Sensors Using Oofelie.

The breakthrough release of Oofelie that just came out, provides an answer to many of your current and future challenges. Putting you in front of competition.

Take advantage of our latest developments providing integrated optimized chained and strong couplings of parametrized applications like PiezoPyroElectric, PiezoVibroacoustics, ElectroThermalMagnetics, Thermal Fluid Structure Interaction, Piezo driven Optics, MEMS-MOEMS, MBS, and so much more to discover.

Click here to learn more about the design of Actuators and Sensors Using Oofelie.

Chick here to confirm your attendance to the Open Engineering stand - at Actuator 10 in Bremen

Open Engineering / Samtech will present FINE/Oofelie FSI at the Ewec 2010 Tradeshow in Warsaw, Poland. From Tuesday 20 till Friday 23rd of April 2010.

Open Engineering is proud to annouce the 3.3 version of its Oofelie Multiphysics 2010 with the release of version 7.3 of SAMCEF Field.

Get the free CD of Oofelie Multiphysics 2010

The breakthrough release of Oofelie that comes out in April, provides an answer to many of your current and future challenges. Putting you in front of competition.

Take advantage of our latest developments providing integrated optimized chained and strong couplings of parametrized applications like PiezoPyroElectric, PiezoVibroacoustics, ElectroThermalMagnetics, Thermal Fluid Structure Interaction, Piezo driven Optics, MEMS-MOEMS, MBS , and so much more to discover.

Chick here to subscribe to the Open Engineering - Samtech Nordic Tour in April 2010

The ELPA Company, the Russian leader in the development and manufacturing of specific research based products: piezoceramic materials, piezoceramic devices and acousto-electronic products, trusts Open Engineering for the design of its innovative devices.

Open Engineering will participate to the 2010 edition of the Nanotech fair in Tokyo (Japan), February 17-19 2010.

Open Engineering's representative will be, as well as other Belgian companies, on the AWEX booth.

VINAS, the Japanese partner of Open Engineering, will also participate to this event.

The Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy trust Open Engineering's solution for the design of its innovative sensors..

New Multiphysics Fluid Structure Interaction software system. Open Engineering collaborates with NUMECA and NUMFLO to deliver a brand new Multiphysics Fluid Structure Interaction software system.

The product is based on a strong coupling between OOFELIE and FINE/Hexa and will be the first fully embedded system for efficient and optimal multiphysics simulations. We are very excited by this new software product as it will allow engineers to predict realistic physical behavior of complex systems where the interactions of fluid and structural responses are significant, through a unique, efficient, reliable and user-friendly interface. Version 1.0 Beta is available and we are working on the preparation of the official release.

Open Engineering is proud to announce the new release of its Oofelie Multiphysics 2010 suite in conjuction with the release of version 7.2 of its user interfcae SAMCEF Field.

Details about this version are presented in this Release notes.

Open Engineering will participate to the Aero India Fair. 11-15 February 2009
More information on the meeting website: Aero India 2009

New group office in Beijing (Pekin) to provide support in Pacific area.

Open Engineering gets the visit of RTC; lets follow this link for the movie (3'10")

New office created in Sao Paulo (Brazil) to provide support in South America area.

New contract with ESA for Fluid Structure Interaction to enhance the FSI product in validated FSI strong coupling.