Marburg, Nov 29th, 2010 - VI-grade GmbH, the leading provider of best-in-class products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical simulation, today announced that China Steel Corporation (CSC), the largest integrated steel maker in Taiwan, selected the VI-grade suite of railway solutions, based on VI-Rail.
The company, that has recently won the service contract for Taipei Metro Rapid Transits (MRT), will work together with the National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology and National Cheng Kung University, using VI-Rail to simulate the multibody dynamics of the MRT rail vehicles.
''We are excited about the technology offered by VI-grade for the railway industry,'' says Professor YC Cheng of NKFUST. ''China Steel decided to seek our assistance and recommendations for this project and we will use the VI-Rail solution to accomplish our preliminary research, delivering to China Steel important information for performance tuning and ultimately helping them to meet the requirements of Taipei MRT. ''
''We are pleased with the fact that the China Steel has decided to adopt the VI-Rail technology,'' says Kinney Shen, CEO, TeraSoft. ''We are looking forward to supporting these important customers for their projects and future research and development on the rail industry in Taiwan. We believe that it is a good opportunity for China Steel to break through the new technology of rail through the cooperation with Taiwan academic institutes and we will offer full support on it.''
''We are happy to report our first commercial success through TeraSoft in the railway industry,'' says Guido Bairati, Sales Director, VI-Grade. ''This demonstrates the efficiency of our commercial strategies in the Asia-Pacific region, that relies on a capillary network of experienced and respected resellers. We are looking forward to a continuous a fruitful collaboration in Taiwan!''
About VI-Rail
VI-Rail is the specialized railway simulation software from VI-Grade. VI-Rail enables to quickly build a complete, parameterized model of a new railway vehicle, easily define its suspension, wheelset, wheel-rail contact, and other vital characteristics. Running through a battery of simulations it is possible to determine the vehicle's stability, derailment safety clearance, track load, passenger comfort, and more. The performance of a railway vehicle design can be optimized virtually in the computer, before cutting a single piece of metal or running a single physical test. VI-Rail users can instantly see the effects of design changes on railcar performance in high-speed animation, easily detecting component interferences, excessive wear, instability, and performance limitations. Users can also plot key parameters in graphs to compare results from different designs. For additional information, click here.
About China Steel Corporation
China Steel Corporation (CSC), located at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, was founded in December 1971. With annual capacity (in terms of crude steel) of over 10 million metric tons, CSC produces a range of products that encompass hot and cold rolled coils, coated coils, plates, rods and bars. The domestic market takes roughly ¾ of CSC's production and exports take the remaining fourth. CSC is the largest steel company in Taiwan, enjoying more than 50% of the domestic market. Principal export destinations are China,. Japan and Southeast Asia. CSC Won the ''National Quality Award'' from the Executive Yuan (Cabinet) in 1991 and war honored with the ''Distinguished Innovation Accomplishment Award'' by the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2009, signifying that CSC's innovation accomplishments have long been acknowledged by the domestic industries, government organizations, academia and research establishments. Under the leadership of the top-management team headed by Chairman Jo-Chi Tsou and President C.H. Ou, CSC has the courage to innovate, as well as strong capability to put the innovation into practice. The company's vision is, ''we aspire to be a trustworthy steel company of global distinction that pursues growth and value-innovation''. CSC actively puts in practice its corporate values of teamwork, entrepreneurial approach, down-to-earthiness and pursuit of innovation. With the application of the latest technology and the most modern management concepts, it sinks deep roots for its core business in steel, and integrates the related downstream industries to foster healthy development of Taiwan's steel industry. CSC also moves towards diversification and toward developing into a globalized industrial group with the steel business at its core that extends to industrial material, trade, transportation, engineering, finance, services, land development and state-of-the-art technology. For further information about China Steel, click here.
About TeraSoft
TeraSoft Inc. is a leading professional engineering solutions provider based in Taipei, Taiwan. TeraSoft helps its customers break through their challenges by providing leading edge engineering software, hardware and system integration services that speed their research and development to production. Customers use the solutions and services which TeraSoft provides to do their technical computing modeling and analysis in communications, electronics, semiconductors, computers and equipment, aerospace and defense, industry automation and machinery, automotive, optical design, financial service, biotech, pharmaceutical and medical etc. TeraSoft also provides optical system design, electronic design automation (EDA) solutions, auto electronics design tools and computer aided automation engineering (CAD/CAE) tools as well. In addition, TeraSoft has developed several ECU prototype and production SW/HW solutions for automation, test & measurement, and automotive control industries. For additional information, click here.
About VI-grade
VI-grade GmbH is the leading provider of best-in-class software products and services for advanced applications in the field of system level simulation. VI-grade, established in 2005, delivers innovative solutions to streamline the development process from concept to sign-off in the transportation industry, mainly automotive, aerospace, motorcycle, motorsports and railways. With office locations in Germany, Italy, Japan, and the USA, VI-grade is a young and growing company with a highly skilled technical team.
Marburg, Nov 29th, 2010 - VI-grade GmbH, the leading provider of best-in-class products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical simulation, today announced that China Steel Corporation (CSC), the largest integrated steel maker in Taiwan, selected the VI-grade suite of railway solutions, based on VI-Rail.