ESI Group announced the launch of Virtual Seat Solution, the only solution on the market dedicated to the virtual prototyping of seats. It empowers OEMs and seat suppliers to design, test, improve and pre-certify their seat prototypes, fully and virtually, without the need for costly physical prototypes. Not only do industrial clients save cost and time, they can also deliver highly innovative seats while ensuring all aspects of their performance. Expanding on the capacities of ESI's seat comfort software previously known as PAM-COMFORT, Virtual Seat Solution not only covers trim manufacturing, postural, static and dynamic comfort, it also enables the
assessment of thermal comfort and whiplash testing. Clients can easily test the performance of their future products, including the whiplash performance addressed
in EuroNCAP or JNCAP protocols, and comfort performance according to the SAEJ826 standard. For the first time, these tests are fully integrated into Virtual Seat Solution and automated from beginning to end. In addition, as Virtual Seat Solution takes into account the effects of manufacturing, it ensures extremely accurate prediction of the seat performance. Thanks to case-specific dummies and human models, users can evaluate performance, precisely predicting the interaction between seat and passengers. All of these applications can be assessed using a single model common to all domains of performance, allowing seat designers, seat engineers and seat specialists to work concurrently and efficiently. Using a single model, they can quickly assess trade-offs between different design options and enhance their prototypes.