NAFEMS North America

Goal

The goal of the North American Chapter of NAFEMS is to support the mission of the international NAFEMS organization, namely:

• To facilitate international industry, academia and government collaboration, that leverages unbiased multi-disciplinary engineering expertise
• To improve product and process simulation
• To have a positive impact on quality, profitability, schedules and safety

Objectives

The North American Chapter of NAFEMS will focus on the virtual product development requirements as defined by industry, academia and governments in the USA and in Canada. Its mission is to act as a trusted source and a collaborative resource for the best engineering modeling, simulation and analysis practices in the development of safe, reliable, and affordable products. Its focus is to champion and improve best practices, to promote and enrich educational opportunities aligned with the rapidly-advancing technologies, and to advance the productivity and quality of virtual product development processes.

Specific objectives of the North American Chapter of NAFEMS are to:

• Promote COLLABORATION within the international engineering analysis and simulation community,
• Stimulate INNOVATION via transfer of knowledge in the use of advanced scientific, engineering and computing technologies,
• Maximize PRODUCTIVITY through improved best practices used in product development engineering processes,
• Implant QUALITY in the methods and techniques exploited by virtual product development processes.