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Day Two - Tuesday, June 10, 2003 M2A1 - Intelligent Digital Prototyping for Six Sigma Quality M2A2 - Test and Measurement: New Directions and Opportunities T2A2 - Colloquium #3: Durability Simulation: Latest Advances M2A3 - Mechatronics, Control Systems and 1-D: Simulation Technologies and Best Practices T2A3 - Colloquium #4: NVH Simulation: Latest Advances M2P1 - M2P1 - Systems-Level Optimization: Interoperation, Integration, Process and Data Management, Part II T2P1 - Colloquium #4: NVH Simulation: Latest Advances M2P2 - Case Study: Managing the Tradeoffs Between Digital and Physical Prototyping T2P2 - Simulation Data Management M2P3 - OEM/Supplier Collaboration through Digital Prototyping: Conflict vs. Opportunity
M2A1 - Intelligent Digital Prototyping for Six Sigma Quality Improving quality is a top priority for vehicle manufacturers working to slash warranty expenses and recalls while boosting customer satisfaction and brand value. This session will explore how design-for-Six-Sigma approaches such as robust design, statistical engineering, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multidisciplinary optimization are helping companies transform their approach to quality-from inspecting defects out, to building quality in. Justifying digital prototyping investments based on their power to advance corporate Six Sigma goals will be explored, together with how Six Sigma unite the interests of disparate departments and catalyze process change.
	Dr. Agus Sudjianto, Manager, V-Engine Engineering Analytical Powertrain, Ford Motor Company Transfer Functions and Analytical Robustness Abstract
	Dr. Robert V. Kolarik II, Project Manager, Process Technology - Alloy Steel, The Timken Company Presentation not available Abstract
M2A2 - Test and Measurement: New Directions and Opportunities While physical test and measurement remains indispensable in vehicle development, its role is in radical flux. In the future, will most testing be done in-house, or outsourced? What new kinds of teams will be needed? When test departments are downsized, how can a company capture its technicians' experience and knowledge, and make this available to the simulation department to yield better-informed, more realistic simulations? Conversely, how can simulation results be used to create more effective test runs? Meanwhile, with the test automation industry divided over whether to pursue synergies with simulation or stick solely with test, what are safe choices for manufacturers? This session will explore how manufacturers facing these challenges are preserving their test expertise while fostering new synergies between digital and physical methods.
	Henry Hodges, Jr., President, Nevada Automotive Test Center Meeting the Increasing Demand for performance Information in the Design Cycle (2.22MB PDF File) Abstract
	Dr. Christopher Griffen, Senior Director, Acoustics Technology, Collins & Aikman Efficiencies in NVH Engineering Tools (4.53MB PDF File) Abstract
T2A2 - Colloquium #3: Durability Simulation: Latest Advances The seemingly simple questions of how long a product will last, and what will fail first, are intensely complex and difficult to simulate. The world's leading authorities in durability analysis will describe new advances in durability simulation technologies and methods, with a look to the future.
	Paul Lubinski, Principal Engineer, Commercial Vehicle Exhaust, New Vehicle Development, ArvinMeritor Durability Simulation (938KB PDF File)
	Les Grundman, Manager, Computer Aided Engineering, International Truck and Engine Corporation Durability Simulation (645KB PDF File)
M2A3 - Mechatronics, Control Systems and 1-D: Simulation Technologies and Best Practices With growing numbers of vehicle systems coming under electronic control-steering, throttle, braking, all-wheel drive, active suspensions and more-the need to better integrate simulation of control and electronics systems with mechanical-systems simulation is critical. However, simulation of these so-called "1-dimensional" systems is based not on geometric models but instead on models of performance attributes. How can the two domains be tied together? This session will explore technologies and best practices for modeling, simulating and analyzing dynamic, multidomain systems, and accurately and efficiently co-simulating analog, digital, mixed-signal electronics, mechanics, hydraulics, controls, and other technologies.
	Dr. Kenneth Butts, Vehicle System Controls, Electrical/Electronic Systems Engineering, Ford Motor Company Modeling to Manage Electronic Complexity (656KB PDF File) Abstract
	Dr. Larry Michaels, Staff Development Engineer, General Motors Corporation Plant Modeling for Powertrain Control Design (26KB PDF File)
	Dr. Larry E. Kendrick, Senior Staff Engineer, Electronic & Electrical Systems, General Motors Corporation This presentation not yet available. Please check back later.
T2A3 - Colloquium #4: NVH Simulation: Latest Advances Aspects that have long been considered subjective in the NVH domain—cornering confidence, the sound of a car door closing, how a powerful engine should sound—are becoming increasingly addressable by objective measurement and simulation techniques and methodologies. In this colloquium, leading NVH experts from automotive and off-highway manufacturers will describe how this is being achieved, and the latest technological advances.
	Dr. Christopher Griffen, Senior Director, Acoustics Technology, Collins & Aikman Achieving Correlated and Effective Simulation Models (404KB PDF File)
	Sue Stroope, Supervisor, CAE-NVH, BorgWarner Presentation (242KB PDF File)
M2P1 - Systems-Level Optimization: Interoperation, Integration, Process and Data Management, Part II 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. Dennis Nagy, Technical Business Consultant Integration, Federation, and Interoperation: Getting More Business Value Out of What You Already Pay For (2.14MB PDF File)
	Dr. Prasad Mangalaramanan, Lead CAE Specialist, Commercial Vehicles Systems Division, Dana Corporation Design Optimization Method for CAD Structural Components (1.71MB PDF File) Abstract
T2P1 - Colloquium #4: NVH Simulation: Latest Advances This colloquium will explore methods for integrating crash-worthiness, durability, NVH, acoustics, CFD, thermal, multi-body dynamics, optimization, road performance, controls, and other disciplines at the system level, together with technologies and best practices to optimize the preparation of models for the various analytical tools used.
	Dr. Aleksander Hac, Staff Research Engineer, Delphi Corporation Role of Computer Models in Developing Rollover Stability Enhancement Systems (1.25MB PDF File)
M2P2 - Case Study: Managing the Tradeoffs Between Digital and Physical Prototyping While some envision wholly digital product validation, many believe digital and physical prototyping are both necessary and, properly managed, can each bring greater value to the other. This session will explore balancing the tradeoffs between the two technologies, coordinating and managing the resulting processes and data streams, and bridging the organizational and cultural gaps. Real-world cases will reveal how these challenges are being met—successes, pitfalls and workarounds.
	Mick Winship, Manager, Simulation & Analysis, Ricardo, Inc. Physical versus Digital Prototyping (273KB PDF File) Abstract
T2P2 - Simulation Data Management The shortage of effective tools for simulation data management and workflow management is a major impediment to broader, more effective deployment and application of digital prototyping. This session will explore technologies and methods that practitioners are using today to successfully manage the data and processes involved in digital prototyping, and what users want from commercial developers.
	Dr. Prasad Mangalaramanan, Lead CAE Specialist, Commercial Vehicles Systems Division, Dana Corporation Challenge (83KB PDF File)
M2P3 - OEM/Supplier Collaboration through Digital Prototyping: Conflict vs. Opportunity Suppliers under intense price pressure from OEMs are nevertheless being asked to deliver increasing engineering content and take responsibility for more and more of the total product. Key to closer supplier/OEM involvement is digital prototyping, which promises to help OEMs "cascade" system-level functional specifications down to subsystem and component requirements for suppliers, as well as helping suppliers collaborate better with one another. But vexing issues of trust, security, confidentiality and safeguarding intellectual property—for both sides—remain. Presentations and a crossfire panel of suppliers and OEMs will exchange views on safely sharing sensitive information, managing internal and external data and work flows, and what tools and processes are most effective.
	Edward A. Vaughan, Director, Analysis, Development, Validation, General Motors North America ENVISION: A Truly Collaborative Environment (884KB PDF File)
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Day Two - Tuesday, June 10, 2003