Simulation in the Automotive Industry: Creating the Next Generation Vehicle

Date: November 14th, 2019
Location: Troy, MI (USA)

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Overview

The automotive engineering community is now confronting the largest technology transformation since its inception. This includes the electrification of powertrains for more efficient consumption and cleaner emissions, the reinvention of the battery with fast wireless charging capabilities and finally the advent of a fully autonomous vehicle. Compounding to these technology changes, the automotive companies design verification process is moving away from a major reliance on physical testing to almost a full virtual simulation product verification process.

Hence, the challenges to the automotive engineers are enormous and require a significant increase in the upfront use of numerical simulation capabilities, methods and processes such they’re able to efficiently design, manufacture and deliver these very innovative technologies to the market in greater speeds than ever before.

Description

NAFEMS Americas and invited speakers will cover these topics, and more, at, “Engineering Analysis & Simulation in the Automotive Industry: Creating the Next Generation Vehicle." Located at the MEC in Troy, MI, attendees from the major automotive manufacturers and suppliers will gather at this annual event, in a pre-competitive manner, to exchange ideas, identify best practices, and drive the near-future direction of technology.

This event aims to deliver information and insights on critical topic areas in a manner that maximizes the “take-away” value for attendees. An event agenda and concept championed by several leading figures in the automotive industry will provide the opportunity to learn about the latest technologies and practices, which attendees can later share and apply within their own organizations.

Keynote Presentation

Generative Design in the Future of Next Generation Vehicle Development - S. Xu, General Motors Corporation

Latest technological innovations and societal trend focus our attention to clean energy, vehicle light weighting, electrification and autonomous driving, which in turn quicken the pace and drive the complexity into the next generation vehicle development. New manufacturing process such as additive manufacturing opens up new opportunities to bring the product fast to market and promises benefits

Leveraging Systems Thinking, MBSE and Simulation in the Design and Analysis of Highly Distributed Autonomous Vehicle Systems - C. Davey, Ford Motor Company

The increase in global urbanization presents significant traffic congestion and emission challenges. Ford sees these challenges as an opportunity to design smart Autonomous Vehicle Solutions that can actually help city planners design transportation systems that improve the quality of life for everyone. To accomplish this goal we are leveraging Systems Thinking, Model Based Systems Engineering

Discussion Sessions

An Open Discussion on Democratization in the Automotive Industry

Led by Frank Popielas, SMS_ThinkTank™ Overview With the increasing complexity in engineering overall (products, design and manufacturing processes and services) the challenges for engineering simulation are becoming much more challenging and complex as well. To simply understand under “Democratization of Simulation” that simulation will be made available to non-simulation experts is not

Learning Simulation in the Academic Environment: Inside and Outside the Classroom

Led by Prof. Shawn Midlam-Mohler, Ohio State’s Simulation Innovation and Modeling Center (SIMCenter) Overview Recent discussions have centered on whether students are graduating with the CAE knowledge and skills needed by employers. Prof. Shawn Midlam-Mohler’s keynote at last year’s event, “ Curriculum Innovation to Meet the Growing Demand for Simulation Talent , ” focused on the work happening

Systems Thinking for the Design of Complex Products

Led by Mario Felice, Ford Motor Company Overview It is 2019, and despite decades of software development and application within the automotive industry, simulation continues to mostly exist within organizational silos limited to small number of experts, is highly manual and at times slow to support the faster vehicle development time. As complexity increases, the engineering challenges in

A Round Table Discussion on Generative Design

Led by Simon Xu, General Motors Corporation Overview The increasing complexity in product engineering due to technological innovations in additive manufacturing, new materials, computational power, as well as fast evolving societal trends and the need to bring competitive products fast to markets, make the engineering process much more challenging and complex. The Generative Design process is