History
- 1984
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- INTES is founded by members of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Stuttgart University. On the basis of the Finite Element software ASKA taken over from the university, a new integrated software was developed under the name PERMAS.
- 1986
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- INTES is among the first companies in the newly founded Technology Transfer Center on the campus of Stuttgart University.
- 1990
- PERMAS is re-written from scratch, yielding a completely new software using proven concepts together with many new ideas.
- 1994
- In the scope of the European research project EURO-PORT the software is parallelized. The concepts and the structure of the new PERMAS version are an important prerequisite for this work.
- 1996
- Foundation of INTES France.
- 1999
- With PERMAS Version 7 the parallelized software is delivered to our customers. Due to new developments in hardware architecture, this feature is widely in use.
- 2004
- At the occasion of the 20th anniversary of PERMAS a user meeting is held in Stuttgart where 130 participants attend the introduction of PERMAS Version 10.
- 2008
- Together with PERMAS Version 12 the first version of VisPER (Visual PERMAS) was introduced. This is the new graphical user interface for PERMAS which with its Version 1 supports PERMAS functionalities in contact analysis, optimization, fluid-structure acoustics, substructuring, and evaluation of spotweld results.
- 2009
- PERMAS is now 25 years old which was celebrated by a technology day at INTES offices in Stuttgart.
- 2010
- Foundation of INTES Japan K.K. located in Tokyo.
Since PERMAS Version 5 in the year 1993 the functionality of PERMAS has steadily been extended. PERMAS Version 12 now consists of more than 3 Million lines of code. The emphasis of the development is in the following areas:
- classical structural dynamics and acoustics with modal and direct solution of the equations for vibration and waves,
- thermo-mechanics in combination with contact analysis, non-linear structural behaviour and heat transfer,
- layout-, shape- and design-optimization as well as reliability analysis.
In those years, INTES has built up high competence in the area of numerical simulation.
The development of special algorithms for contact- and Eigenvalue-analysis made considerable advantages available to our customers.
INTES regularly participates in national and international research projects in order to bring together industrial needs and
state-of-the-art achievements from science and technology.
Regular user-conferences join users and developers of PERMAS, in order to foster the exchange on experiences and new developments.