This presentation was made at the NAFEMS Eastern European Seminar "Engineering Analysis & Simulation in the Automotive Industry" held on the 7th of November in Bucharest.

Automotive manufacturers and suppliers are constantly challenged with delivering innovative, safe, and dependable vehicles to market as efficiently as possible. As a result, engineering teams must discover, evaluate, and successfully implement leading-edge technology and methods to produce a reliable, effective outcome. Many of these efforts now come together under concepts such as Industry 4.0, Digital Twin, CAE Democratization, and Cloud Solutions. But what do these really mean for you, as a simulation specialist?

Resource Abstract

How to create an innovation? What has changed for an engineer from the past to now and what will change in the future?



Engineers were, are and will be innovative. Only the way how they find the right solution is changing. Being innovative in the past was possible already by solving a single physics problem. But the expectations and demands of todays and future society and consumers require more – they require multiphysical solutions.



In the same way organizations and simulation tools that focused only on a narrow set of problems in the past need to follow the change to interdisciplinary development teams without walls and simulation environments that are seamless.



Two examples show how the complexity of a multiphysical optimization for an e-motors is handled by Porsche and AMG and how a seamless workflow combines design, performance and manufacturing in a single software environment.