daratechiDPS AUTO2003

Day One - Monday, June 9, 2003 M1A1 - Intelligent Digital Prototyping Review & Outlook M1A2 - Keynotes: Winning Product Development Processes M1A3 - Previews of Supplier Breakout Sessions M1P1 - Cutting the Cost of CAE Ownership T1P1 - Hardware Matters: Making High-Performance Computer Investments M1P2 - Analytical-to-Physical Correlation Best Practices: Driving Out Cost, Reducing Risk T1P2 - Colloquium #1: Crash Simulation: Latest Advances M1P3 - Systems-Level Optimization: Interoperation, Integration, Process and Data Management T1P3 - Modeling Earth/Snow and Bucket/Blade/Tire Interaction for Off-Highway
M1A1 - Intelligent Digital Prototyping Review & Outlook Daratech will share its research and analysis on the state of the digital prototyping market including the transformation now underway in automotive and off-highway manufacturers' approaches to prototyping, simulation and testing, the business drivers involved, cultural, organizational and technological challenges facing users, and what software and hardware solution providers are doing to address these challenges. This session will also analyze the impact of consolidation among the major suppliers, and future prospects and direction of key market participants.
	Bruce L. Jenkins, Executive Vice President, Daratech, Inc. Intelligent Digital Simulation for Automotive and Off-Highway - Review & Outlook (629KB PDF File)
M1A2 - Keynotes: Winning Product Development Processes What digital prototyping strategies are succeeding today? Senior executives from the world's leading automotive and off-highway manufacturers will reveal the basis for the strategic choices they are making, and their experiences and successes in using these technologies to win in the marketplace.
	Philip R. Martens, Vice President of Product Creation for North America, Ford Motor Company Making the Elephant Dance: The Transformation of Ford's North American Product Development Operations (1.97MB PDF File)
	William R. Knapp, HUMMER H2 Program Engineering Manager, General Motors Corporation HUMMER H2: Going Fast with Digital Tools (13.20MB PDF File)
	Tim Culbertson, Manager, Advanced Vehicle Engineering & Performance Parts Engineering, Performance Vehicle Operations, DaimlerChrysler Corporation Zero-to-Hero in 500 Days: The Dodge NASCAR Winston Cup Engineering Story Abstract
M1A3 - Previews of Supplier Breakout Sessions Co-Sponsors will preview their breakout presentations. These breakouts will feature new technologies, early looks at new releases, and demonstrations of the latest products. This session is designed to help you decide how to allocate your time during the breakouts.

	Mark Bohm, General Manager, ABAQUS Great Lakes, Inc. ABAQUS Breakout Session Preview (1.90MB PDF File)
	Dr. Uwe Knorr, Vice President, EM Division, Ansoft Corporation Ansoft EM - Electrical and Electromechanical Component and System Design (818KB PDF File)
	Michael Wheeler, Vice President, Mechanical Business Unit, ANSYS Inc. ANSYS Update (285KB PDF File)
	Karl Bangert, Sales Director, Function Bay, Inc. Welcome to the Next Generation of Mechanical System Simulation (1.29MB PDF File)
	Greg Hopton, General Manager, LMS North America Leading the Revolution in Functional Performance Engineering (2.83MB PDF File)
	Jim Tung, Chief Market Development Officer, The Mathworks Introduction to The MathWorks (2.00MB PDF File)
	Larry McArthur, Senior Director, Manufacturing Industries Marketing, SGI SGI Focus on Digital Prototyping (176KB PDF File)
	Dr. Alex Van der Velden, President, Synaps, Inc. Facilitate the Interaction of All Applications within One Framework (796KB PDF File)
	Steven C. Luby, President & CEO, VISTAGY, Inc. VISTAGY - Empowering Engineers (351KB PDF File)

M1P1 - Cutting the Cost of CAE Ownership
What are automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers doing to cut the costs of CAE ownership? How can software license agreements be revisited for more favorable terms in light of today's multiple-source marketplace? How can work processes be automated or merged to eliminate waste and inefficiency? Finally, does it make sense to outsource CAE, and if so, to whom?

Mark Bohm General Manager ABAQUS Great Lakes, Inc.	Michael J. Wheeler Vice President, Mechanical Business Unit ANSYS Inc.	Thomas C. Curry Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer LMS International N.V.

T1P1 - Hardware Matters: Making High-Performance Computer Investments
Increasingly powerful hardware is enabling server and even desktop execution of complex simulations that once required a supercomputer. But high-performance computers remain expensive, and increasingly capable simulation software will continue to require the highest-performance hardware affordable. This session will explore strategies for quantifying the cost-benefit of high-performance computers, identifying optimum architectures and computing environments, investing to get more value from existing hardware assets, and avoiding pitfalls in making large hardware purchases.

John Schmuhl, Associate Director, High-Performance Computing (HPC), U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC)
Presentation (141KB PDF File)

M1P2 - Analytical-to-Physical Correlation Best Practices: Driving Out Cost, Reducing Risk
Key to reducing physical prototyping is to drive out cost and risk from digital prototyping through better correlation with physical test. Not only can this extend the coverage of analytical models to simulate a wider range of performance, it can also aid design of better test procedures. Moreover, with management focused on how customers experience products, correlations showing analytical methods directly improve the customer experience can win management backing for the move to math. This session will explore enhancing customer experiences through improved correlation between empirical and analytical methods.

Theo Kaster, Global Chief Engineer, CAE-NVH Chassis Systems, TRW Automotive
CAE Technology in Chassis Systems - Analytical-to-Physical Correlation (4.48MB PDF File)

Robert L. Geisler, Engineering Supervisor, Suspension & Powertrain Mounting, CAE & Validation, General Motors Corporation
CAE/Test Correlation - A Contrarian Viewpoint (1.01MB PDF File) Abstract

T1P2 - Crash Simulation: Latest Advances
Crashworthiness is an area where digital prototyping and simulation are now finding greatly increased acceptance due to the cost and difficulty of physical crash testing, plus heightened consumer sensitivity. Advances in computer performance and software capability are allowing engineers to analyze more and more crash cases digitally, and more closely approximate real-world conditions. The auto and off-highway industries' top experts in crash analysis will address today's leading-edge technical issues in digital crash simulation.

Dr. Jwo Pan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Material Modeling for Crash Simulations (57KB PDF File)

M1P3 - Systems-Level Optimization: Interoperation, Integration, Process and Data Management, Part I
Systems-level optimization requires tradeoffs between numerous, often conflicting goals-vehicle handling vs. ride comfort and NVH, for example. Given the 15 to 20 systems in a single vehicle, these tradeoff studies are complex, iterative processes in which data and information have to move across many applications and disciplines. But interoperability barriers-both CAD-to-CAE and CAE-to-CAE-are a major impediment, as is the shortage of mature technologies for managing simulation data and processes. This session will reveal how manufacturers are overcoming these obstacles, successfully tying together the many tools and processes involved in system-level optimization and managing the resulting information and work flows.

Dr. Thomas P. Gielda, Distinguished Technical Fellow, Visteon Climate Systems
Integrating Next-Generation Product Development Tools
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David Knapp, Director, Product Creation Architecture, Ford Motor Company
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Gordon Willis, President, Vulcan Works, LLC
An Integrated Approach to Systems Design Using the Advanced Engineering Environment
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T1P3 - Modeling Earth/Snow and Bucket/Blade/Tire Interaction for Off-Highway
How are off-highway OEMs and suppliers addressing the tough challenges of simulating bucket/blade/tire and earth interactions? This session will examine best practices and approaches to digitally modeling the complex interactions between the implements and attachments to off-road equipment and earth, sand and rocks, as well as tires and snow.

Warren Hartmann, Technology Manager, Machine Research, Caterpillar, Inc.
Machine - Earth Modeling Needs in the Off-Highway Industry (120KB PDF File)

Dr. Sally Shoop, Research Engineer, U.S. Army - Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
Modeling Off-Road Vehicle Performance (324KB PDF File)

Day One - Monday, June 9, 2003