NAFEMS Americas and Digital Engineering (DE) teamed up (once again) to present CAASE, the (now Virtual) Conference on Advancing Analysis & Simulation in Engineering, on June 16-18, 2020!

CAASE20 brought together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies in an open forum, unlike any other, to share experiences, discuss relevant trends, discover common themes, and explore future issues, including:
-What is the future for engineering analysis and simulation?
-Where will it lead us in the next decade?
-How can designers and engineers realize its full potential?
What are the business, technological, and human enablers that will take past successful developments to new levels in the next ten years?

Resource Abstract

The democratization of simulation software has the potential to increase the number of simulation users by one or more orders of magnitude. Similar dramatic expansions of use of complex technologies have been witnessed in many other technology-driven industries such as automobiles, airplanes, and personal computers, navigation systems, music devices, and mobile phones. In each of these cases, the expansion occurs when the nascent, complex, hard-to-use technology is packaged into a form that is simple-to-use, robust, affordable and accurate, and made available to everyone. But this turning point is never simple to accomplish and is hard to predict. However, when it does happen, it has always resulted in an explosion of investment and innovation that further drives the power and use of the underlying foundational technologies to a broader and broader audience.



The RevolutionInSimulation online community resource (Rev-Sim.org) was founded in 2018 – it was launched at the last NAFEMS CAASE conference in June 2018. Rev-Sim provides professional resources and a collaborative community to help increase the value of engineering simulation software (CAE) investments through the Democratization of Simulation. Here you’ll have access to success stories, news, articles, whitepapers, blogs, presentations, videos, webinars, best practices and reference materials to help democratize simulation in your organization. Experts have volunteered to be Topic Moderators, curating the resources and authoring blogs on various important next-generation simulation topics such as Automation, Apps, Democratization, HPC, Business Challenges, Digital Twins, Digital Thread and SPDM, and others. You’ll also have one-stop access to simulation specialists, industry organizations, special interest discussion groups, and industry media, along with software and consulting service providers to accelerate the return on your simulation investments.



Rev-Sim is a free community resource that is funded by the generosity of a number of sponsor companies whose products are at the cutting edge of simulation technology and practice. These companies and their simulation experts provide many valuable resources to the Rev-Sim community.



In this session, the author will present an overview of the Rev-Sim initiative and will report on progress as it hits its 2-year mark. He will provide a vision for the future of Rev-Sim and describe the priorities for the few years.