The Functional Mockup Interface (FMI) is a relatively recent standard for model exchange and co-simulation of dynamic models on the system and component level. It has been adopted by vendors and users alike at an amazing pace – more than 60 tools at the moment. In particular it has been adopted by the Global Automotive Alliance Group (GAAG), an automotive industry organization promoting standards and interoperability. FMI addresses a critical pain point in model-based systems engineering: the ability to share models between tools, and to deploy models in an easy-to-use way to development engineers.  FMI breaks down barriers between departments and companies to collaborate more efficiently without major investments in new tool chains or training and enables efficient re-use of existing modeling assets. The talk will present examples and scenarios from the automotive industry with the following key features:

State-of-the-art multi-core support to enable real-time simulations of unprecedented accuracy

In combination, there features enable process innovations and efficiency gains that enable to tame the increasing complexity of the software development in the automotive industry. 

About the Speaker

Dr. Hubertus Tummescheit

Board Member, Modelica Association

Chief Executive Officer, Modelon Inc. 

Dr. Tummescheit received his MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg Harburg, Germany in 1996, and his PhD in Automatic Control from the University of Lund, Sweden in 2002. 

He has been involved in the Design of the Modelica language from the beginning and is the developer of a number of open source and commercial Modelica Libraries in the energy and HVAC domains. In 2003 he worked as a research scientist at United Technologies Research Center and returned to Sweden in 2004 to start Modelon AB, the first company fully dedicated to tools and services based on Modelica. 

Dr. Tummescheit has served as the CEO of Modelon AB from 2004 to 2012 and moved to Hartford, Connecticut in 2013 to establish Modelon as a leading player in system simulation in the United States.