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Design & Engineering Simulation for solutions that will help solve our sustainability challenges this century. Our Vice President of Marketing, Keith Hanna, articulates how CAE will be in the vanguard of delivering practical engineering solutions to future sustainable development in his commentary on page 14. As Ola pointed out in Las Vegas, this is a real business opportunity for all industries, as well as a way to resolve some of the biggest and most complex problems facing humanity today. At HxGN LIVE, I shared our vision of a smarter design ecosystem where better decisions can be made at...

General Motors: Christopher Kinser General Motors Advances Virtual Autonomous Driving & Active Safety Keith Hanna: Sustainable Engineering is Good Business Sense: Computer-Aided Engineering Can Solve Global Environmental Challenges Samsung Electronics: Adams Marc Co-Simulation of a Washing Machine US Army: US Army Use of MaterialCenter for Metals Additive Manufacturing Data Management Panasonic Ecology Systems: Cradle CFD Innovation that Achieves Excellent Indoor Air Circulation Increase Agility and Collaboration in Engineering Development Using MSC Nastran Modules Ford Motor Company: Reduce...

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Volkswagen AG Increase Agility and Collaboration in Engineering Development Using MSC Nastran Modules By Dr. Bruns Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Bruns, CAE-Methods, Volkswagen AG Bhoomi Gadhia, Product Marketing Manager, MSC Software 6 | Engineering Reality Magazine

s we all know in the finite element world, traditional FEA model build-up contains multiple parts and sub-structures which are then organized in finite element codes (such as ‘include’ files in MSC Nastran) for easy exchangeability. While using these include files, a strict numbering guideline needs to be followed to avoid ID collisions between INCLUDEs. It is required in MSC Nastran that a complete model is built-up without overlapping of ID’s. This sort of build provides independent INCLUDE files to handle which are easy to reuse and interchange whenever the vehicle design changes. However,...

“The modules approach helps us save time and ensure our high-quality results. We can use the decrease effort in model build-up, exchange, as well as pre-post processing for NVH, Durability, and Nonlinear Analysis.” - Dr. Bruns, Volkswagen modules. Post-processing results are available in the HDF5, F06, punch, and op2 files, which are partitioned by module. Figure 2: Model Build up at Volkswagen The key benefits of modules are that they reduce reliance on a pre-processor for creating copies of, translating, rotating, or mirroring an existing primary MODULE – this also helps reduce modeling time....

Autonomous Vehicle Testing With Christopher Kinser, General Motors, Milford, Michigan, USA ngineering Reality Magazine recently interviewed Chris Kinser from General Motors, the Director of their Global Autonomous Driving Center in Michigan and an industry expert in rapidly emerging sector of vehicles (AVs). He has a long history of working on electrification and autonomous driving systems, and his team in Milford is responsible for vehicle integration of several General Motors’ advanced technology programs, including self-driving vehicles, as well as automated driving and active safety technologies....

What does your role in General Motors involve and what is GM’s overall approach to the fast-emerging Self-Driving opportunity? I am the Director of the Global Autonomous Driving Center at our Milford, Michigan proving ground where I manage a large engineering team. We believe that autonomous technology will play a key role in our vision of a world of zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion through the enormous potential benefits it holds for society in the form of increased safety and access to transportation. General Motors is in a unique leadership position when it comes to developing...

General Motors Advances Virtual Autonomous Driving & Active Safety By Chris Kinser, General Motors Figure 1: Cruise Autonomous Cars eneral Motors operates a total vehicle performance center at the Milford Proving Ground in Michigan (Figure 2). The Global Autonomous Driving Center is a subset of this work focused on developing active safety features like advance park assist, lane keep assist, full-speed range adaptive cruise, and Super Cruise. This work is guided by GM’s vision of a future with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. The mission of our team is to provide smooth, capable...

Safety is engineered into every step in Cruise’s self-driving vehicles including design, development, manufacturing, testing and validation. Figure 3: General Motor’s Super Cruise Cadillac Driver Attention System Cruise Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Program In May 2016, GM completed the acquisition of Cruise Automation a Silicon Valley startup with considerable self-driving software development expertise. Combined with our expertise in engineering and developing vehicles, our teams began testing self-driving vehicles in San Francisco, CA, Scottsdale, AZ and Warren, MI. By September 2017, we revealed...