CD-adapco Announces Strong Growth at STAR Conference

LONDON - After three days, fifty presentations, eight live demos and the
consumption of significant quantities of food and drink, the curtain came
down on the STAR European Conference 2009. Held a short distance from
CD-adapco’s London headquarters, the conference defied the current economic
situation by attracting a near record attendance of over 300 attendees, drawn
from all sections of industry and from every discipline in the CAE world.

In his opening address, CD-adapco President Steve MacDonald, was buoyant
about the economic crisis and its impact on the CAE business: “My strong
belief is that the current economic situation presents a fantastic
opportunity to CD-adapco and the CAE community as a whole. In the midst of
constant reminders about how tough times are, CD-adapco managed to grow at
22% last year, a performance that we have matched through the first five
months of our current financial year. I am convinced that CAE is absolutely
the right place to be right now, as more and more companies look to adopt
simulation technology as part of a drive towards lean-engineering. With both
STAR-CCM+ and STAR-CD V4 now fully online and accepted by the marketplace, we
have a busy time ahead of us working out all of the ways that we can deploy
this exciting technology throughout the engineering process, reducing costs
and increasing innovation as we go.”

The central theme of the conference, which was sponsored by Dell, Cray,
FieldView and Microsoft, was “Integrate. Automate. Innovate”. Led by
excellent keynote presentations from Bombardier Aerospace and Access, a
succession of industrial clients demonstrated the tangible benefits that can
be gained from adopting an automation philosophy in their industrial CAE
processes.

A good example of driving innovation through automation, was presented by
Vestas, the world’s leading wind-energy company, who demonstrated how their
entire CFD process had been distilled into a single “Run CFD button”. Using
the button, any Vestas site engineer, located anywhere in the world, can
produce a report detailing the suitability of a region of terrain for wind
turbine deployment, including visualization of the flow field in Google
Earth.

For more information on CD-adapco conferences, webinars, seminars and
events please visit:

www.cd-adapco.com/events

Contact:

Stephen Ferguson
fergie@uk.cd-adapco.com
+44-7525-987460

Source: CD-adapco

Contact: Stephen Ferguson, fergie at uk.cd-adapco.com, +44-7525-987460