Reinventing Seat Design
Achieve Comfort and Efficiency through Virtual Prototyping with Keysight Virtual Seat Solution
19 March 2026 | 3 p.m. CET | online
Seats are more than just a place to sit, they define the comfort, safety, and experience of every journey. In today’s world of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), seat design faces new challenges. Traditionally, solving these challenges meant building multiple prototypes—costly, time-consuming, and limiting innovation. But what if you could predict performance before building a single seat?
on Virtual Seat Solution (VSS) - a breakthrough in CAE technology that enables you to design and validate seats virtually, without relying on costly prototypes. Learn how VSS helps you:
- Reduce program duration and prototype costs.
- Achieve accurate, predictive physics for comfort and safety.
- Adapt to new cabin configurations for AVs.
- Optimize thermal performance, a key target of EVs autonomy.
AGENDA
19 March 2026 | online
3:00 PM CEST
Welcome & Introduction
Alexander F. Walser | ASCS e.V.
3:05 PM
Reinventing Seat Design:
Achieve Comfort and Efficiency through Virtual Prototyping with Virtual Seat Solution
Muriel Beaugonin, Marcel Jagic | Keysight Technologies
3:45 PM
Q&A
Ask the speakers
4:00 PM
End
SPEAKERS
Muriel BEAUGONIN and Marcel JAGIC will deliver an overview of the Virtual Seat Solution, showcasing its comprehensive end‑to‑end capabilities across multiple applications throughout the entire seat design process - from initial definition to full validation.
Muriel Beaugonin is Product Manager of ‘Virtual Seat Solution’ at Keysight Technologies. Having a D.E.A. (Master Degree) of Numerical Analysis from the University Pierre and Marie Curie, at Paris (France), Mrs Beaugonin joined ESI Group to develop Biomechanical Activities in 1993. Her expertise covers the applications of the Finite Element Method to the development of Human Models for the different fields in Biomechanics, such as safety and comfort. In addition to her human body model expertise, she is in charge of Virtual Seat Solution, as a key component of our Structural Mechanics (VPS) offer at Keysight, covering all the domains of analysis for the seat design.
Marcel Jagic is an Application Engineer based in Frankfurt, supporting OEMs with simulation‑driven product development. He focuses on virtual seat comfort analysis, presales technical enablement, and delivering proof‑of‑value studies that help customers evaluate and adopt advanced simulation tools. Known for his practical, customer‑focused approach, Mr. Jagic helps engineering teams optimize workflows and accelerate innovation.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Automotive OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and design engineers focused on innovation and efficiency.
Roles
- Seat, Interior, and Safety Simulation / CAE Engineers
- Comfort, Ergonomics, and HMI Engineers
- Crash and Whiplash Safety Engineers
- R&D and Advanced Engineering Managers
- Virtual Testing and CAE Leads
- Application and Technical Specialists (OEMs, suppliers, partners)
Industries
- Automotive OEMs
- Tier-1 and Tier-2 Suppliers (Seats, Interiors, Airbags, Safety Systems)
- Engineering Service Providers
- Research Institutes and Universities working on occupant safety, comfort, and human modeling
Level
- Technical and operational: engineers responsible for model setup, execution, and analysis
Strategic and supervisory: leads and managers responsible for workflow definition, tool selection, and virtual testing strategy
KEY TAKEAWAYS
After this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Understand how a single core seat model can be reused across manufacturing and comfort analysis, such as static and thermal comfort, until safety evaluation, model rebuilds and iteration time.
- Evaluate seat performance trade-offs (comfort vs. safety vs. manufacturability) earlier in the development cycle using virtual methods instead of late-stage physical prototypes.
- Apply guided, CAD-driven workflows to assess posture, static and dynamic comfort, thermal comfort, and whiplash without requiring deep FEM expertise.
- See differently how seat development can shift from siloed analyses to an integrated, decision-oriented virtual workflow.
