This presentation was made at the NAFEMS Americas Conference "Simulation in the Automotive Industry: Creating the Next Generation Vehicle" held on the 16-18 March 2021.

The automotive engineering community is now confronting the largest technology transformation since its inception. The demand to manufacture cleaner, safer, and smarter vehicles, along with providing an overall enhanced driving and ride experience, has never been higher. As a result, engineering teams must discover, evaluate, and successfully implement leading-edge technology and methods to produce reliable, effective results.

Hence, the challenges for automotive engineers are enormous and require a significant increase in the upfront use of numerical simulation capabilities, methods, and processes such that they’re able to efficiently design, manufacture and deliver these innovative technologies to market in greater speeds than ever before.

Resource Abstract

The transportation and vehicle industry are disruptively changing today. The megatrends as urbanization, eco-efficiency, electrification and automated driving are driven by the socioeconomic environment, professional diversification, e-commerce and mostly customers’ ever higher expectations. The new directions like e-mobility and automated driving require new solutions and products in technical level. Hence, beside the conventional simulation methodologies, new disciplines must be introduced in design and development processes to meet with customers’ requirements, standards and needs. The main goal of the presentation is to outline the challenges of the next decade in the commercial vehicle industry with especial care for the virtual modelling and simulations.