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OPTIS
NEWS
| OPTIS appoints new Vice President Sales & Marketing 11/07/2008 16:38:05 |
| Toulon, France. Friday, July 11, 2008. OPTIS, world leader in light simulation solutions, has appointed Pete MOORHOUSE, 44, as Vice President of Sales & Marketing.
Moorhouse’s move to OPTIS SAS brings a wealth of industry knowledge and management experience and provides the important interface between technology, sales and the customer.
Moorhouse has a background in automotive interior and exterior design, having worked for General Motors and founded his own design firm.
Jacques Delacour, OPTIS CEO & President : “We look forward to Pete leading OPTIS through a period of vigorous growth on an international level. Pete will enable us to better tailor our product and service offerings to meet the ongoing needs of our customers, and to anticipate their future design, simulation and prototyping issues.”
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| OPTIS OPENS ITS WHOLLY OWNED JAPANESE SUBSIDIARY 13/05/2008 11:09:51 |
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Further strengthening its worldwide presence Toulon, France. Tuesday, 13 May 2008. OPTIS France SAS has further demonstrated its dedication to its long established Far Eastern markets by implementing a wholly owned subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan. The subsidiary, OPTIS Asia & Pacific K.K, is exclusively in charge of the sale of the entire range of OPTIS SAS products and services in Japan. OPTIS Asia & Pacific K.K is already operational and will allow OPTIS to provide a further improved, dedicated assistance to its large customer base, and to strengthen its relationship with its industrial partners. Mostly dedicated to Japanese customers, OPTIS Asia & Pacific K.K already employs 6 people including 3 engineers in charge of technical support. To accommodate its rapidly growing local team, OPTIS Asia & Pacific has moved to new offices with effect from 9 May :
OPTIS Asia & Pacific, K.K TEL: +81 3 3274 1160 The technical team is highly experienced in optical engineering, including more than three years’ seniority in the field of optical simulation within the Japanese market with OPTIS solutions. Benefiting from OPTIS France SAS support, OPTIS A&P will have direct access to the technical expertise, available software and hardware platforms from throughout the OPTIS Group in order to support its customers and industrial partners. OPTIS A&P’s Technical team is already available for Hot Line and can introduce customers and strategic partners to value-added support via the Helpdesk and Care Program. SOFTWARE EDITION OPTIS France, founded in 1989, is the sole and unique editor of SPEOS software as well as its integrated versions within CATIA V5 and SolidWorks platforms. CARE PROGRAM The Care Program solution is part of OPTIS consulting services, and dedicated to supporting customers on the use of the software throughout the course of their projects. SOFTWARE CUSTOMIZATION OPTIS can provide customers with specific development and macro functions in order to adapt their software to their specific needs and production requirements.
Based on OPTIS expertise gained from 19 years’ of know-how and experience in the optical and lighting fields, and using the company’s latest software solutions, OPTIS engineers offer customers consultancy, auditing and patent services to help them find concrete and profitable solutions for their design projects.
OPTIS is the first company to provide a light simulation solution fully based on a physical model inside CAD/CAM software. Its solutions allow designers and engineers to analyze and optimize the lighting performance of products. In 2002, OPTIS integrated its SPEOS solution in CATIA V5 to launch the SPEOS CAAV5 BASED solution.
Angela GREEN, Communications Manager |
| OPTIS appoints Vice President Finance 14/02/2008 11:41:29 |
| OPTIS has appointed Philippe BILLAUD, 51, as Vice President Finance.
A Graduate of Ecole des Cadres (79) and CPA (86), Philippe BILLAUD has held various positions in finance and management for over 10 years, particularly in the areas of M & A and capital development.
Between 1990 to 2007 he held the position of Chief Financial Officer and General Secretary of ESI Group (worldwide leader in virtual prototyping software, 66m €uros and 600 employees worldwide) . Member of the executive committee and on the board of directors, Philippe Billaud was notably responsible for the setting up and organisation of international operations and for acquisitions.
He joined OPTIS on the 1st January 2008.
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| OPTIS to present unique Virtual Reality Solutions at IMAGINA 2008 in Monaco 07/01/2008 14:53:18 |
| OPTIS will showcase its new, unique suite of Virtual Reality Solutions at IMAGINA, the European 3D and virtual reality event in Monaco from 30 Jan - 1 Feb.
OPTIS will present its unique, physically realistic, OPTIS Road Simulator technology which takes into account visual perception.
Also to be launched at IMAGINA will be the SPEOS Architecture Solution, aimed at architects and lighting designers for lighting simulation based on actual material, surface and light source properties.
OPTIS will present these products in a workshop, special evening event, and on its stand N° 32, throughout IMAGINA. For more details, please contact Angela Green on +33 494086697. We look forward to meeting you there. |
| Optical Effects Optimization now possible thanks to OPTIS-NOESIS interoperabililty 05/11/2007 15:44:07 |
| OPTIS and NOESIS are pleased to announce the interoperability of their CATIA V5 -integrated solutions, enabling designers and engineers to automatically optimize visual aspect of your product or scene, including its lighting and optical effects, for the first time.
Find out more by reading the press release :
http://www.optis-world.com/email_download_popup_P_GUID.asp?P_GUID=3BAAEDA4-4B0F-4E86-A07D-0865DE5DAEEB |
| MARVEST project led by OPTIS receives Government funding 26/10/2007 17:01:51 |
| The MARVEST project aimed at improving Maritime Virtual Reality & Simulator Technologies, is led by OPTIS and is scheduled to commence early 2008. The Project has received a promise of state Funding as a part of the Unique Interministerial Fund, by the French Government.
MARVEST brings together both private and public organisations specialized in the fields of Simulator Technologies, Virtual Reality, Light and Sound simualation.
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| SPEOS has become the worldwide standard for Backlighting Unit development 24/09/2004 14:55:39 |
| OPTIS is constantly developing its flagship SPEOS software to help customers develop innovative products.
Nowhere is this more true than in the field of electronic display design. With customers such as Samsung, LG, As reported by our Korean Partner ISSOFT, SPEOS is now able to simulate a system as complex as 1000 000 ellipsoidal dots, in less than 1.5 hours!
When the competition is only able to simulate a system with 10,000 dots in an overnight simulation!
This is further proof that OPTIS is offering the only solution which can support our customers’ ambitions!
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| OPTIS launches a unique software for Windshield Analysis 24/09/2004 14:55:18 |
| OPTIS announces the launch of brand new solution for Windshield Analysis, designed to allow both windshield manufacturers and vehicle manufacturers to check the compatibility of their windshield design with optical standards, to make a static analysis of image distortion through the windshield, and to make video sequences of what will be seen through it while the vehicle is in motion, thus enabling them to validate the windshield’s visual performance.
It is aimed at vehicles manufacturers who wish to validate a new shape of windshield, and to those windshield manufacturers wishing to make a complete analysis of their design. This software is available in both SPEOS standalone which is compatible with all CAD programs, and it is also integrated in CATIA V5 from Dassault Systèmes. SPEOS Windshield Analysis will not only answer the needs of windshield manufacturers themselves but also those of several departments within vehicle companies. By sharing this solution the vehicle-manufacturer departments working on style, body, life on board, and safety will benefit from being able to share data about designs more easily, and check them right from the first stages of the development process. The user will be able to quickly evaluate the impact of the modifications he or she makes to the design and adjust it accordingly. The vehicle manufacturer can now check the design without having to transfer it to the windshield manufacturer, maintaining confidentiality for as long as possible while saving time and money. Given the problem of one being able to determine the design of a new vehicle from a windshield design, this advantage has already proved popular with vehicle manufacturers. SPEOS Windshield Analysis is an efficient engineering tool for windshield manufacturers and, thanks to its easily interpreted graphic results, Windshield Analysis will help them to explain and justify their designs to car manufacturers quickly. Windshield manufacturers will be able to produce a feasibility study within one hour of receiving the project. Windshield Analysis has already been chosen by a major windshield manufacturer. Using this solution means they will be able to cut out the phase of real tests traditionally conducted in a laboratory, and thus reduce the time it takes to design and determine the final shape. In turn this will help to reduce the lead times for launching a new vehicle. This newly developed solution enables the user to check that the windshield design complies with the international standards ECE R43 and SAE Z26. The user will also be able to carry out a quantitative analysis of the windshield in terms of distortion, light transmission, secondary image and color identification. On top of this, Windshield Analysis Workbench enables a qualitative evaluation of the windshield for the vehicle in both static and dynamic conditions. One of the innovations of this solution is the particular attention paid to optical surfaces, whose specific shape must be accurately modeled in the mechanical environment. Distortion in the dynamic state can be easily calculated, a useful plus given that the human eye will see “image acceleration” on the edge of a windshield in a moving vehicle but will not see it when the vehicle is stationary. “Image acceleration” is of interest to car manufacturers and is a criterion that should be taken into account along with standards compliance when choosing a windscreen design. With SPEOS Windshield Analysis, the windshield designer will be able to simulate the sighting target for reflection and transmission, view sighting marks, and also model how those marks distort the image (the road, landscape) through the windshield. The Moiré effect can also be simulated for analysis of distortion – something that until now could only be observed empirically on a physical prototype. Non-specialists will quickly master it the Windshield Analysis solution, which does not require any optical or technical knowledge. Users can simply select the windshield geometry in their CAD program, and the workbench will do the rest, giving optically accurate results in a matter of minutes about its compliance with standards. “With SPEOS Windshield Analysis, OPTIS is launching on the market a solution which will interest vehicle and windshield manufacturers alike,” said Jacques DELACOUR, CEO of Company OPTIS. “Thanks to this unique, dedicated software, car manufacturers will have greater control over windshield design, and windshield manufacturers will be able to respond to car makers’ requests quicker and more accurately.” "This new OPTIS application demonstrates the power of a virtual optical simulation solution delivered in an integrated PLM environment," said Severin LANFRANCHI, director of research and development, Dassault Systèmes. "This solution lets users conform to industry standards in the course of virtual product development. Furthermore, the added value of being able to create simulations will enable our automotive clients to reduce costs and to be able to optimize the final design of a windshield very early in the product development process." |
| OptisWorks 2004 SP1 –now available in Japanese 24/09/2004 14:54:36 |
| OptisWorks , the only software for optical and light simulation to have been awarded the Gold Product status, and 100% integrated in SolidWorks, has now been translated for the Japanese market.
Optis’ high level of investments into the research and development of light simulation software have been oriented towards multiplying applications, going from optics to light. The improvements that OPTIS has made to our user interfaces, in particular the integration of optical simulation into CAD programs, mean that new applications (telephones, TV, lighting, headlamps..) which have become everyday items, are today developed by non optical specialists.
“By translating our software into Japanese, we are continuing to improve their ease of use ; it is important that users can be completely focused on the system that they are designing, rather than on understanding the tool they are using to design it” said Jacques Delacour, OPTIS President & CEO.
This first version in Japanese coincides with the opening of an OPTIS office in Tokyo which marks the growth of OPTIS sales in Asia.
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| OPTIS opens office in Tokyo 24/09/2004 10:15:24 |
| With thriving growth rates on the Japanese market, OPTIS is strengthening its local position by setting up an office in Tokyo. It is simultaneously launching the first Japanese version of its OptisWorks software for optical and light simulation, integrated in SolidWorks. |
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