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 future for engineering simulation will be driven by Artificial Intelligence and advanced digital tools to enhance the designers and engineers on handling the increasing systems engineering complexity. The disruptive new technologies require large systems engineering with complex models and increasing number of elements that would reach thousands and even millions of interfaces, to face the changing customer needs, priorities and global market uniqueness.

The designers and engineers are already starting the usage of AI and advanced digital tools to automate the design complex processes in order to generate the required efficiencies and preventive errors tools, to be focused on innovative and ideation process, to reinvent and evolve new products and services.

From a business and human perspectives, the culture change within the organizations is a critical step to fully adopt AI and digital tools such as SMBSE and dilute barriers to change. Another human enabler is the priority of being customer centric, as the origin to accelerate the product development process with advanced models and architectures to anticipate the coming new necessities and priorities of diverse customers and entities.

The proposed methodology integrates the latest new technologies and the emerging ones within an integrated solution to simplify the engineering analysis and simulation, in spite of the intrinsic growing complexity of the new technologies. The main tools of the proposed methodology are AI, SMBSE, virtual simulation and integration platforms to ensure a development ecosystem in accordance with the never-ending race to innovate and satisfy the global markets.

The 2020 decade will be not just a full digital expansion, but also a smart environment in all the products and services. Shared hardware, software and computing services will reduce the cost of developing smart tools, so the usage of AI will be a must to compete and to gain competitive advantages in the global arenas.