On July 6th, 2012 the System Simulation Symposium took place in Tokyo for the sixth time – organized by NewtonWorks and ITI Dresden. This year's keynote from Dr. Akira Ohata (Senior General Manager, Advanced Powertrain Engineering of Toyota Motor Corporation) and the other speeches from Furukawa, Honda, Mitsubishi Electric, Moog, Nikon and Toshiba impressively showed modern technologies and applications as well as the benefits of using system simulation for virtual development of new products.
More than 160 participants could inform themselves about SimulationX interfaces and target applications in detail during the attractive program and at the booths of the following companies:
◆ A.I. Corporation: TestWeaver/Silver and SimulationX coupling for automatic simulation-based system and virtual control tests
◆ ETAS Japan: Coupling of LabCAR and SimulationX for HiL applications
◆ FunctionBay K. K.: RecurDyn and SimulationX interface for complex, multi-physic multi-body system simulation
◆ IDAJ: modeFRONTIER® and SimulationX interface for multi-criterial and multi-domain design optimization
◆ NI Japan: Interface between LabVIEW/VeriStand and SimulationX for control design and real-time applications
◆ Virtual Mechanics Corporation (VMC Japan): CarSim and SimulationX coupling for vehicle dynamics applications
In three talks, ITI presented the application diversity of SimulationX and introduced for the first time in Japan the world-wide unique application combining physical modeling and simulating with failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analysis (FTA). This enables developers and design engineers to assess component and system model variations according to identification and evaluation of potential failure sources already at the design phase.
"For the development of safety-relevant electrical and electronic systems, e.g. in motor vehicles, these methods are not only known, but also, their application within ISO standard 26262 is absolutely necessary by now, and therefore, they are established in software and control development. However, these systems are run in closed control circuits with physical vehicle components and therefore, comprehensive statements are not possible until the failure behavior of components is included." Andreas Abel (ITI Projekt Manager) explains.
Jens Schindler, ITI's Managing Director, sums up: "The very successful cooperation of our partners and customers in Japan is reflected most notably on such a day. By now, SimulationX software has developed into an inherent part of the development of mechatronic systems in Japan – with customers who plan continuously and on a long-term basis. We are pleased about the constructive, but also especially sophisticated applications of our Japanese SimulationX users."