About Simpact

You are in safe hands with Simpact. We are an agile engineering consultancy with a core business activity in the design, development and engineering of bespoke structures. Our vast experience, across diverse markets allows us to solve the most demanding Engineering challenges.

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Safety, Mobility & Sustainability

Founded in 2000 by Tim Williams and Dirk Landheer by putting the knowledge and expertise gained from their PhDs in automotive safety into practise, Simpact helped to shape the CAE revolution in automotive safety development and continuously pushed boundaries by applying innovative techniques.

In 2007 Simpact began to redefine itself by embarking on an active programme of diversification. The aim was to reduce reliance on the cyclic automotive market and seek out new markets that have not yet experienced the benefits of the CAE revolution. With our company cornerstones that incorporated a social ambition and a strong value base, Simpact broadened their market coverage to include project work in Defence, Aerospace, Industrial and Consumer.

Non-Stop Innovation

Today Simpact make full use of their vast experience, academic backgrounds and relationships to conduct cutting edge R&D and project work.

By continuing to work closely with the UK’s top Universities, Simpact has exclusive access to the latest techniques and state-of-the-art technology.

Safety has always been at the centre of everything we do. Some of our work saves lives, and as we grow and diversify, this is what continues to drive us.

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Some of our Engineering Projects

History of Simpact

2000

Jan 2000

Incorporation. Provision of safety CAE support to Jaguar Land Rover with MSX International

Nov 2000

- Office in Coventry
- TIER 1 supplier status with main customers Jaguar Land Rover and Pininfarina Ricerca e Sviluppo (Italy)

2003

Apr 2003

TIER 1 supplier status to Ford (Germany)

Dec 2003

Portable non contact 3D laser scanning added to CAE capability

2004

Oct 2004

Simpact CAE capability for soft armour demonstrated in DTI sponsored study

Nov 2004

Simpact et al. register novel automotive airbag design with their customer Ford Global Technologies LLC

2005

Apr 2005

With European funding Simpact R&D produce world's first soft armour FEA models with plastilina backing suitable for commercial body armour development.

2006

Mar 2006

ISO9001:2000 Quality Management System Accreditation

2007

Aug 2007

- 2nd office, Banbury
-Recruited RADIOSS UK experts for Aerospace vulnerability projects

2008

Nov 2008

Relocate all engineering activities to open plan office in Leamington Spa

2009

Jul 2009

Mech. properties of selection aramid fabrics characterized with SAATI enabling soft armour predictive FEA

2010

Jan 2010

Key project partner to University of Warwick /WMG PVCI Programme

2011

Aug 2011

FSI Publication in FSI "Inconsistency in 9 mm bullets measured with non-destructive X-ray computed tomography”

2012

Sept 2012

PASS 2012 paper “Inconsistency of threat level in soft armour standards, correlation of experimental tests to bullet X-ray 3D images”

2013

Mar 2013

Move to larger premises in Warwick with workshop facilities

2014

Jan 2014

Investment in Photron high speed camera

Aug 2014

Result of £1M TSB CR&D with Morgan Advanced Materials and WMG:
- Practical predictive CAE tool for hard armour
-Intuitive 3D visualisation technique Exploitation ready

Sept 2014

PASS 2014 poster “The Effect of bullet yaw on the threat level; a numerical investigation”

2015

Sept 2015

Launch ICARUS light

Dec 2015

KTP results Composite fatigue study with WMG

Dec 2015

Simpact Guided gravity Drop test rig SDR2200 commissioned

2016

Jan 2016

PACET “Pre-strain Analysis of Composites using Emerging Technologies”

Mar 2016

LIFT “Lightweight Innovative Flexible Technology” 1-year CR&D project

Sept 2016

PASS 2016 paper “Experimental-based numerical simulation of the drop test within NIJ Standard-0101.06 for personal hard armour development”

2017

Jan 2017

Simpact High-Speed Pneumatic Launcher SPL6000 commissioned

Feb 2017

Simpact Free-fall Drop Rig SFR6300 commissioned for large scale high energy drop testing

Mar 2017

COMPPRESS “An Innovative Step in the Compression Moulding of Composites” 1.5 year CR&D feasibility project

Jul 2017

Simpact successfully apply Digital Image Correlation (DIC) to blast testing

Sep 2017

Simpact deliver LIFT “Lightweight Innovative Flexible Technology” at LCV2017

2018

Jan 2018

Simpact upgrade to the RESCALE HPC platform for very large LS-DYNA compute requirements

Mar 2018

Simpact successfully upgrade to ISO9001:2015 Quality Management System

Aug 2018

LIFT “Lightweight Innovative Flexible Technology” Patent filed

Sep 2018

Installation and commissioning of COMPPRESS composites manufacturing machine in our workshop

2019

Apr 2019

With the Ariel Motor Co and Composite Braiding , deliver B.A.C.S (Braided Automotive Composite Springs)

2020

Mar 2020

With Aston Martin, deliver B.L.A.S.T (Bespoke Lightweight Automotive Security Technology) R&D

Mar 2020

1st UK lockdown.

Dec 2020

2nd UK lockdown

Simpact offices remain open for projects of national importance during the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021

Feb 2021

3rd UK lockdown.

Mar 2021

With Reynolds Technology deliver H.I.T.S (Hybrid Integrated Technology Structures) R&D

Apr 2021

With Pashley Cycles and WMG, deliver A.L.E.C.S (ARTICULATING LIGHTWEIGHT ELECTRICALLY-assisted CARGO SOLUTION)

Sep 2021

With Pashley Cycles, win the NVN Nick Carpenter Innovation Award

2024

Apr 2024

Simpact awarded Launchpad funding for Carpe-diem

2025

Jan 2025

New offices and workshop at the University of Warwick Innovation Campus near Wellesbourne

Key Stakeholders

We favour simple job titles at Simpact. We just say what we are best at, and our small but formidable international team of cherry-picked engineers do the rest.

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Dirk Landheer

Managing Director

Dirk was born in Nuenen, a small Dutch village best known for the connection to the artist Vicent van Gogh.

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Tim Williams

Business Development

Tim is edgy with his ideas and grew up on adrenaline and a need to go fast.

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David Lemouton

CAE Specialist

David grew up in rural Normandy, France, and pursued a challenging five-year engineering curriculum.