On August 28th, 2007, PERA Global (ANSYS-China), a leader in R&D informationization technology, and also the largest CAE technology and service provider in China, declared that the company has formally launched the enterprise-wide collaboration simulation platform. More than 400 peoples, including experts from different industries, leaders and news media, witnessed this important historical moment in Changfugong Hotel, Beijing.?
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The press conference started at 9 a.m. with a passionate music intro. First, Mr. Guoming Zhang, PERA Global President, delivered an excellent speech on independent R&D strategies entitled "Practice with Incessant Vigor, Succeed after Extensive Preparation." He stressed that independent R&D was the general trend of development in China, and that the independent R&D of CAE would become a national policy.

PERA Global's independent R&D adhered to the concept of both originating from and focusing on enterprise practices. During 10 years of growth, PERA Global developed strong technical expertise, laid a solid user foundation, gained a great deal of international resources, and accumulated extensive practical experience and knowledge, all of which grounded PERA Global thoroughly in R&D success. Since realizing enterprise demand for collaboration simulation technology, PERA Global has exercised a four-year consultation and implementation, thus mastering the key technology of collaboration simulations. After integraing the advanced platform technological elements of many other enterprises in the world, PERA Global has at long last launched their enterprise-wide collaboration simulation platform -- PERA. President Zhang pointed out that the technology would be quickly applied by enterprise users, tested by users and improved based on user feedback.
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As regards the future independent R&D, Present Zhang said that PERA Global would make its technologies specialization-intensive and its application more industry-oriented. In the near future, PERA Global would be on its way towards internationalization through listing on the overseas market and having PERA products tested in the international market.
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Then, Mr. Jieyong Xu, PERA Global Vice President, and Dr. Lintao Mei, General Engineer of PERA Global, made speeches respectively entitled "Simulation Technology--the Past, Present, and Future" and "PERA 2007--The Method for Enterprises in Collaboration Simulation Platforms." They pinpointed that the "product R&D of a single enterprise is a complicated systems engineering project; it requires collaboration and the integration of each part. But traditional simulation technology and process is departing away from enterprise collaboration systems and forming a simulation 'black hole'.

Discrete application models not only lead to waste in a repetitive investment, but also result in an 'information isolated island' for enterprise R&D, which will reduce the chance of successful innovative R&D. To solve such a problem, PERA Global proposes the concept of 'Collaboration Simulation', advocating the combination of discrete CAE technology, process, data and knowledge to form collaboration advantages and supports the innovation and optimization of complex products."
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As for the PERA platform, they said, "As an enterprise-wide collaboration simulation platform, PERA combines technological tools, management control and knowledge accumulation, the three main valuable segments in the R&D field, and it also has good scalability and compatibility. With advanced information technology, it can realize real-time centralized management of talent, technologies, data, and process, which will greatly enhance enterprise R&D efficiency and success rate." Prof. Haicheng Yang, General Engineer of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Team Leader of the Manufacturing Informatization Expert Team from The Ministry of Science and Technology, and Team Leader of the Digital Military Industry Expert Team of The Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, explained the strategy value of collaboration simulation technology in the view of the overall informatization of product R&D and digitization of military products from Chinese enterprises.

In his speech, of. Yang said, "Simulation technology is becoming more and more important during product R&D processes for modern enterprises. But traditional CAE technologies are mostly applied to individual and isolated product levels, which is detrimental to product optimization and innovation. For this reason, there is an increasingly strong demand in China for collaboration simulation platforms.

The enterprise-wide collaboration simulation platform PERA 2007 launched by PERA Global, which is emerging at the right time, supports products' R&D and innovation, and will push forward R&D digitalization."

At the end, Prof. Yang showed his expectation of the collaboration simulation platform PERA and wished PERA Global great success on the way to independent R&D. Prof. Degang Cui, Vice Director of the Committee on Science and Technology of the China Aviation Industry Corporation II, made an excellent report entitled "Demand of the Aviation Industry for Design Platforms." He said that the aviation industry was animportant application field for collaboration simulation technology and had astrong demand for collaboration platforms. He drew a framework of collaboration simulation platforms that the aviation industry needed and explained the key technology of the framework for the audience. Finally, he pointed out that the PERA launched by PERA Global had met most requirements of the framework, and showed his epectation that PERA will be improved further, with PERA Global's unremitting efforts, to satisfy constantly emerging new requirements from the aviation industry.
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PERA Global raised the concept of "Collaboration Simulation" in 2002, starting to name schemes PERA in the same year, then carried out its development of collaboration simulation platforms, and succeeded in many user enterprises. Mr. Lihao Ping, Vice Chief Engineer of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation No. 14th Research Institute, and Mr. Jin Liu, Vice Director of the Tank Section of the China Armament System Research Institute, attended the press conference on behalf of the actual PERA users, and delivered excellent speeches respectively entitled "Simulation and Optimization General Platform of Comprehensive Design" and "Vehicle Collaboration Simulation Platform," with a lot of detailed application examples, which elaborated the value of the enterprise-wide collaboration simulation platform PERA, and provided valuable references for insiders present at the conference.
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??? Other experts present at the conference commented that the introduction of the collaboration simulation platform PERA not only effectively solved the problem of collaboration simulation during R&D, but also made it possible that the sophisticated technology CAE, exclusive technology of large-scale enterprises, spread from large-scale enterprise to small and medium enterprises. Because the PERA platform comprises several scalable application modules, small and medium enterprise could select relevant application modules, then upgrade, organize and improve step-by-step based on their functional requirements. Now, the Chinese manufacturing industry, with small and medium enterprises as its main body, is facing the historic task that is transforming from "Made in China" to "Created in China." Independent innovation and improvement of product R&D quality has become the current urgent affair. The launch of PERA, undoubtedly, will promote greatly the competitiveness of Chinese enterprises.
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??? The formal launch of the PERA 2007 platform is the first important act since PERA Global received an investment of USD 15 million from American International Group, Inc. (AIG). Mr. Zhang, PERA Global President, said the investment was mainly used for the enhancement of corporate management capacity and improvement of product R&D capacity. PERA Global would adhere to the commitment that the company made to users, and provide users with the most advanced R&D informatization technology and service of the world.

About PERA Global (ANSYS-China)
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??? PERA Global is a company dedicated to the development and innovation of informationization technology R&D. It provides the most advanced products and services around the world, assists users in optimizing R&D process, and helps enterprise users launch new products quickly and highly efficiently, with low cost and high quality. Collaboration Platform for Enterprise Simulation -- PERA is the flagship product of PERA Global that it has independently researched and developed.
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??? PERA Global, as the general agent of America ANSYS Company in China, provides Chinese users with CAE software and services under the name of ANSYS-CHINA. PERA Global is also the agent of other globally well-known brands of R&D technologies.
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??? PERA Global has 240 employees in China, and several branch companies in eight cities, namely Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Nanjing, Wuhan and Xian. For more information, please visit http://www.peraglobal.com .