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Story behind THESEUS-FE^®

Chronology with mile stones in bold letters:

• 2010
• • ... a success story, which will be continued...
• 2009
• • This year was still affected by the global economic downturn. Nevertheless THESEUS-FE defies these odds and maintained its market position successful. The perfect proof was the release of the new version THESEUS-FE v3.0 in June. Moreover Volkswagen AG raised their numbers of licenses to meet the increasing use of THESEUS-FE within the entire corporate group.
• 2008
• • Regardless of the global financial crisis, 2008 was a very prosperous year for THESEUS-FE. It was affected by a lot of developments for the upcoming third version, research, validation, new cooperations and above all by innovative projects driven by our customers. Beside strengthen our customers' relationships especially to BMW Group, Volkswagen AG and Hyundai Motor Company, these projects demonstrated the power of application and gave a deeper inside view to various processes, which at the end lead to new simulation methods and valuable product enhancements affecting the new release. Furthermore Renault Group upgraded their licenses to a world-wide scheme for the support of their affiliates in Romania and Korea and P+Z win over CTC as an exclusive agent for the profitable markets of Japan.
• 2007
• • In June new major release THESEUS-FE v2.0 was published and followed by minor service release THESEUS-FE v2.1 in November. Mr Habig left the company and S. Wagner again get the responsibility for the product. Dr. Paulke promote to the Technical Director of the product. Moreover P+Z won Beijing FEAonline Engineering as their second far-east distributor for the fast growing markets in China.
• 2006
• • By the union of thermosol3D and INKA/TILL code the new software THESEUS-FE² was born and Version 1.0 was presented at the Product Launch Day in May.
• 2005
• • P+Z terminated the agreement with BMW Group by mutual consent and got the intellectual properties on the code. R. Habig joined the team as Business Development Manager to prepare and expand the markets for the upcoming product.
• 2004
• • In autumn the second International INKA/TILL Users Meeting took place in Munich. In the meanwhile S. Wagner become responsible for the product and the need of a fully revised INKA/TILL version internally called V6.0 with Graphical User Interface emerged. At the same time P+Z won Empias Inc. as their first foreign software distributor in Korea. Additionally P+Z gained Dr. S. Paulke for the project, who created a thermal solver called "thermosol" during his PhD, which was extended to "thermosol3D" later on at P+Z.
• 2002
• • In spring the first International INKA/TILL Users Meeting took place in Munich and the last official INKA/TILL Release 5.3.2 came out a couple of weeks later, right before Dr. Schröder died suddenly. M. Ellinger became Team Leader and S. Wagner main developer.
• 2000
• • Dr. K. Schröder joined the INKA/TILL Team and became head of programming and made further developments, which lead to Version 5.0. In parallel the agreement with BMW Group was extended for another five years.
• 1999
• • A small team of three people around INKA/TILL was build to come up the increasing customer demands. In the meanwhile version 4.2 was developed and Dr. Dömök hand over the sales responsibility to M. Ellinger.
• 1998
• • GM and FIAT became one of the first customers of INKA/TILL, followed very quick by other well-known car manufacturers like VW, Opel, Renault...
• 1997
• • First commercial and completely revised P+Z-Version 4.0 of INKA/TILL was released. Mainly programmed by nowadays P+Z's Managing Director Dr. S. Dömök.
• 1995
• • BMW AG close the deal about INKA/TILL with Peters & Zabransky Ingenieursges. mbH
• 1992
• • Last BMW-Version 3.1 of INKA/TILL was released with up to 4 passengers simultaneously
• 1991
• • Permanent in-house improvements lead to Version 3.0 with HSU comfort judging
• 1989
• • Version 2.0 was available at BMW AG with 2D and 3D plots by MOVIE + ANIMATOR
• 1988
• • Fraunhofer-Institute of Building Physics did real-life tests of human beings for validation
• 1987
• • The TILL module with PMV evaluation was implemented
• 1985
• • The first version of INKA was available at BMW AG
• 1984
• • The fathers of INKA/TILL A. Dick and Dr. R. Stricker started the developments
• 1983
• • The idea of INKA/TILL¹ came up at BMW AG

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1	INKA = German abbr.: "INnenraum KlimatisierungsAnalyse / Thermophysiologisches InsassenmodeLL"
2	THESEUS-FE is named following the Greek hero Theseus of mythology, who found the way out of the labyrinth and FE stands for the finite-element approach. Nowadays THESEUS-FE is a worldwide registered trademark of P+Z.