ESTECO is an independent software provider, highly specialized in numerical optimization and simulation data management with a sound scientific foundation and a flexible approach to customer needs. Our technology brings modularity, ease of use, standardization, and innovation to the engineering design process. With 20 years’ experience, the company supports leading organizations in designing the products of the future, today.
ESTECO smart engineering suite brings enterprise-wide solutions for design optimization, simulation data management and process integration and automation.
Being at the forefront of innovation today means taking a holistic perspective when looking at the design process and embrace agile engineering practices. The ESTECO technology addresses the entire design workflow: by orchestrating best-in-class simulation tools, it streamlines design iterations and leads engineers to new, enhanced solutions. Top industry players are reorganizing internally to keep pace with the rapidly changing engineering practices and are moving towards fast-paced, shared, multi-domain and system-oriented design processes. ESTECO mission is helping companies excel across this innovation journey by providing them with leading-edge technology to master engineering complexity and accomplish the shift to agile product development.
Over 300 international organizations have chosen ESTECO to consolidate specialized expertise, streamline teamwork and boost product development across a wide spectrum of industrial sectors. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Trieste (Italy), with offices in Michigan (USA) and Pune (India) and an international network of channel partners.
The company leading solutions inspire decision making and accelerate product innovation by enabling multidisciplinary engineering practices and allocating competence and software resources where needed.
VOLTA is a web platform for multidisciplinary business process optimization and the management of enterprise simulation data, enabling conscious decision-making and innovative product development. VOLTA helps manage all cross-functional concurrent design steps by integrating multiple modeling formats. Its service-oriented architecture facilitates the execution, sharing and reuse of enterprise engineering knowledge.
modeFRONTIER is the platform for process automation and optimization in the engineering design process. Its innovative algorithms and effective integration with leading simulation tools ease the engineering process. In numerous industries, modeFRONTIER has become essential for increasing the understanding of cost/performance factors and reducing product development time.
Since its foundation as a university spin-off, ESTECO has contributed in several funded research projects and has established a close relationship with the academic world. Professors around the world use the modeFRONTIER optimization platform to teach students how to approach real world multidisciplinary engineering problems.
The ESTECO Academy program offers special licenses, dedicated training sessions and materials with the aim of helping students get a first-hand experience of a professional optimization tool and consequently improve their research works using.
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In 1999 three Italian engineers, Carlo Poloni, Luka Onesti and Enrico Nobile, decided to turn their knowledge in engineering design optimization, acquired during an EU funded project, into a successful commercial product. ESTECO was founded as the first spin-off of the University of Trieste.
ESTECO is an independent software provider, highly specialized in numerical optimization and simulation data management with a sound scientific foundation and a flexible approach to customer needs.
With 20 years’ experience, the company supports leading organizations in designing the products of the future, today.
Our smart engineering suite brings enterprise-wide solutions for design optimization, simulation data management and process integration and automation.
Our aim is to help companies excel throughout this innovation journey, providing them with leading-edge technology to master engineering complexity and accomplish the shift to agile product development. Over 300 international organizations have chosen ESTECO to consolidate specialized expertise, streamline teamwork and boost product development across a wide spectrum of industrial sectors.
COMPOSELECTOR is an innovative European research project involving academic and industrial partners whose aim is to develop, demonstrate and assess an integrated software platform for business decision-making in the selection, design, and fabrication of polymer-matrix composite materials.
The selection and design of composite materials and manufacturing processes are only possible by taking into account multiple influences at different physical scales and complex business processes. To be reliable, this process must be built upon a physical and engineering framework and based upon methods that are systemic, effective and efficient in modelling complex, hierarchical materials and processes. In particular, for composite material design and selection, understanding and quantifying the links between material structure at the nano/mesoscale/microscale and their macroscopic effects is, therefore, essential and requires the integration of several models that have overlapping scales (polymer chemistry, matrix-fibre interface, fibre properties and topologies, etc.).
This implies the need for development and integration of models to describe the behaviour of composite materials at different scales as well as material-processing-property relationships. In parallel, high performance requires not only comprehensive material properties modelling but also understanding of risks, costs, and business opportunities for a range of decisions, from material selection to designing functional structural components and systems. Last but not least, design and selection of materials and manufacturing processes must also accommodate societal requirements for health and sustainability.
The business decision support system and the modelling capabilities as developed within COMPOSELECTOR will be used for both optimal material use and control of material production. The results of such calculations will permit the fast qualification of existing products but also open new opportunities for optimal and advanced material selection thanks to the integration of materials modelling, business tools, and databases into a single workflow. The challenges implied by the massive use of composite materials e.g. in aerospace and transports fields, are tremendous. Diminishing cycle-time, automatised processes, and improving material selection are a key factor to lower the costs and increase the competitiveness.
Business Process Modelling for Composite Materials Design
http://www.composelector.eu/
https://www.esteco.com/corporate/composelector-multi-scale-composite-material-selection-platform-seamless-integration-mater
UTOPIAE is a training and research network funded by the European Commission through the H2020 funding scheme. The main objectives of this network are to train, by research and by example, 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in the field of Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Optimisation and to impart them the skills to become leading independent researchers and entrepreneurs that will increase the EU innovation capacity.These skills will enable the ESRs to pursue careers in academia and industry. Through individual research projects, each ESR will investigate different facets of UQ and Optimization Under Uncertainty and develop cutting-edge methods and algorithms with particular focus on aerospace applications.
This project has received funding from the biggest European Union Research and Innovation programme, Horizon 2020.
Key to securing Europe’s energy supply is diversifying supply routes. This includes identifying and building new routes that unlock resources and decrease Europe’s dependence on a single supplier of natural gas and other energy resources. The GASVESSEL project opens up new possibilities to exploit stranded, associated and flared gas where this is currently economically not viable and creates new cost-efficient gas transport solutions. This will be achieved with a novel offshore and onshore compressed natural gas (CNG) transportation system.
The project, that will be concluded in 2021, has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 723030, and involves a consortium of 13 partners from the industrial marine or energy sector, and leading research institutes.
https://www.gasvessel.eu/
https://www.esteco.com/blog/how-collaborative-multidisciplinary-optimization-can-improve-efficiency-and-maximize-profits
EXSCALATE4CoV (E4C) is a public-private consortium supported by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 tender for projects to counter the Coronavirus pandemic and improve the management and care of patients. This project aims at developing a smart platform against pathogens. It’s the first computational platform dedicated to addressing the need to promptly respond to a pandemic crisis. ESTECO technology will be initially used to maximize the throughput of the “in-silico” screening of molecules on the new hardware being installed at CINECA but further applications are foreseen in subsequent phases.
Funded by: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003551
Agenda 02/09/2020
Meeting title: Optimization of Compressed Natural Gas transportation Vessel: GASVESSEL project
Meeting description: How collaborative multidisciplinary optimization can improve efficiency and maximize profits in ship design
Meeting coordinator: Alberto Clarich
Meeting coordinator e-mail: clarich@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 15' each
Meeting starts at:
11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:30
14:00 - 14:15
14:15 - 14:30
Meeting title: A Business Decision Support System for Composite Material Design
Meeting description: An innovative approach for business decision making selection applied to the design and fabrication of composite materials
Meeting coordinator: Carlos Kavka
Meeting coordinator e-mail: kavka@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 15' each
Meeting starts at:
16:00 - 16:15
16:15 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:45
16:45 - 17:00
Meeting title: ESTECO role in R&D
Meeting description: Working closely with international research institutes and universities is one of the ESTECO’s strong points.
Meeting coordinator: Carlo Poloni
Meeting coordinator e-mail: poloni@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 15' each
Meeting starts at:
16:00 - 16:15
16:15 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:45
16:45 - 17:00
Meeting title: ESTECO role in R&D
Meeting description: Working closely with international research institutes and universities is one of the ESTECO’s strong points.
Meeting coordinator: Carlo Poloni
Meeting coordinator e-mail: poloni@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 30'
Meeting starts at: 17:00 - 17:30
Meeting title: A Business Decision Support System for Composite Material Design
Meeting description: An innovative approach for business decision making selection applied to the design and fabrication of composite materials
Meeting coordinator: Carlos Kavka
Meeting coordinator e-mail: kavka@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 30'
Meeting starts at: 17:00 - 17:30
Agenda 03/09/20
- Chat 09:00 - 18:00
Agenda 04/09/2020
Meeting title: Optimization and simulation in research and innovation
Meeting description: Numerical simulation, multiobjective optimization, uncertainty quantification and metamodeling as powerful tools for research and innovation
Meeting coordinator: Enrico Nobile
Meeting coordinator e-mail: nobile@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 15' each
Meeting starts at:
10:00 - 10:15
10:15 - 10:30
Meeting title: A Business Decision Support System for Composite Material Design
Meeting description: An innovative approach for business decision making selection applied to the design and fabrication of composite materials
Meeting coordinator: Carlos Kavka
Meeting coordinator e-mail: kavka@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 15' each
Meeting starts at:
10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00
Meeting title: Optimization of Compressed Natural Gas transportation Vessel: GASVESSEL project
Meeting description: How collaborative multidisciplinary optimization can improve efficiency and maximize profits in ship design
Meeting coordinator: Alberto Clarich
Meeting coordinator e-mail: clarich@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 15' each
Meeting starts at:
11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:30
Meeting title: Optimization of Compressed Natural Gas transportation Vessel: GASVESSEL project
Meeting description: How collaborative multidisciplinary optimization can improve efficiency and maximize profits in ship design
Meeting coordinator: Alberto Clarich
Meeting coordinator e-mail: clarich@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 30' each
Meeting starts at:
10:00 - 10:30
16:00 - 16:30
Meeting title: Optimization and simulation in research and innovation
Meeting description: Numerical simulation, multiobjective optimization, uncertainty quantification and metamodeling as powerful tools for research and innovation
Meeting coordinator: Enrico Nobile
Meeting coordinator e-mail: nobile@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 30'
Meeting starts at: 11:00 - 11:30
Meeting title: A Business Decision Support System for Composite Material Design
Meeting description: An innovative approach for business decision making selection applied to the design and fabrication of composite materials
Meeting coordinator: Carlos Kavka
Meeting coordinator e-mail: kavka@esteco.com
Meeting duration: 30'
Meeting starts at: 15:30 - 16:00
Carlo Poloni
President
+39 040 3755548
poloni@esteco.com
A Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Trieste, Carlo Poloni co-founded ESTECO in 1999. He previously worked at Aeritalia and Sincrotrone Trieste and joined the University of Trieste as a researcher with a focus on Multidisciplinary Design Optimization. He has authored more than 100 papers and collaborates with international companies and organizations. He is also a member of the board of the Italian Chapter of INCOSE.
Enrico Nobile
Cofounder of ESTECO S.p.A. and Thermal-fluids simulation expert
+39 040 3755548
nobile@esteco.com
Enrico Nobile is Full Professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer at the University of Trieste, where he teaches at both undergraduate and graduate level, and he was the Head of Mechanical Engineering M. Sc. course. Prof. Nobile is the author or co-author of more than 120 scientific publications, and his main research interests are, at present, functional and shape optimization of heat transfer systems and components, and RBF (Radial Basis Function) meshless methods in fluid flow and heat transfer. He was President of NAFEMS Italia and collaborated with many academic and research institutions including, among others, New Brunswick University (Canada), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Politecnico di Milano and Consorzio Padova Ricerche (Italy). He is a co-founder, board member and scientific advisor of ESTECO.
Carlos Kavka
Head of Research and Development
+39 040 375 5548
kavka@esteco.com
Skype: carlos.kavka
Carlos is the Head of Research and Development at ESTECO. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in Optimization at the University of Paris Sud (France). He has been co-Director of international workshops at the International Center for Theoretical Physics ICTP (Italy) since 1993 till 2012 and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina) from 1994 till 2005. He has also participated in research activities at the LHC-CMS CERN experiment from 2005 to 2007. He joined ESTECO in 2008.
Alberto Clarich
Head of Engineering Team
+39 040 375 5548
clarich@esteco.com
Alberto Clarich is Head of Engineering Team at ESTECO and member of NAFEMS Italy Steering Commitee. He received a PhD in “Innovative Parameterisation and Optimisation Methodologies in Aeronautic Field”, University of Trieste (2003), in collaboration with Dassault Aviation, having a background as Mechanical Engineer. He begun working at ESTECO in 2004 as Optimization expert.
