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

With the progress in CAE simulation leading to more complicated and integrated workflows, data control and transfer becomes essential. This is extremely important in the manufacturing industry where complicated simulation workflows are necessary in tracking material changes throughout the manufacturing process. Traditionally this has led to many one-off solutions created by engineers in their desire to solve their process design problems within the defined timescales. Naturally the result was that many methodologies for transferring information become available but were stand alone and/or unavailable to different departments or entities.

The VMAP data standard is the first to address this issue and solves the problem by standardising the data being transferred to enable complete software interoperability. Additionally, VMAP provides a library of IO routines to help engineers speed-up the creation their workflows thereby removing the emphasis for considering data formats. This enables easier and more flexible data transfer, use of different softwares for different simulations and the creation of re-useable processes that can easily be adapted to include more or different data. Moreover, this enables software interoperability for post-processing and data manipulation and processing.



VMAP is cost-free and is supported by the international VMAP Standards Community made up of independent software vendors (ISVs), developers, academia and other entities and provides the CAE industry with a focus group to provide guidance, collaborate, evolve and maintain VMAP.



This paper describes the VMAP standard and IO libraries, example of its successful implementation via various use cases. The important roles of the VMAP Standards Community are also described.