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May 14-18, 2023

Organised by NAFEMS

VMAP SC has organised a workshop on the upcoming NAFEMS World Congress. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the needs and possibilities of such extensions together with user experts from different industry sectors and developers from software companies.

A short introductory lecture on the VMAP standard as well as short presentations on each of the extensions discussed will serve as a stimulus for an open technical discussion among all participants involved. The workshop will be open for any interested party and engineer.

January 31, 2023

In January 2023 the VMAP assembly decided to establish a new technical working group ‘Sensor Data’. In many cases, data from real measurements or monitor data from real production runs are used to verify and validate simulation models. This 'real' sensor data is usually stored in application-specific formats, which makes it difficult for simulation experts to use it easily and efficiently. The aim of this working group is therefore to investigate the possibilities of re-storing such measurement data in an extended VMAP format, to design corresponding extensions to the specification and to demonstrate prototype applications.

December 20, 2022

In December 2022 sixteen founding members – partially coming from the initial ITEA project – established the VMAP Standards Community. VMAP SC will be open to all, who intend to contribute to the VMAP Standard and its extension, thereof.

The Association bears the name „VMAP Standards Community e.V.“, abbreviated as “VMAP SC”. The Association will be entered into the official register of Associations. The registered office of the Association shall be in Sankt Augustin, Germany.

Date/Time: 5 October 2022 at 11:15 CET
Location: Room E – 4-E

Organised by NAFEMS

The VMAP Standard for Vendor-Neutral CAE Data Storage – Workshop on Technical Extensions and Industrial Use Cases

• Introducion
  K. Wolf, P. Gulati (Fraunhofer SCAI)
• First Proposal to Handle Sensor Data in VMAP
  VMAP Standards Community
• Full Model Storage in VMAP
  VMAP Standards Community
• VMAP-Analytics – A Smart Manufacturing Platform
  S. Palla, K. Ekström, J. Lindwall, P. Darth,
  C. Luo, S. Marth, T. Schwartz (Swerim AB)
  
• Open Discussion

Date/Time: 27 April 2022 at 17:00 CET

Organised by NAFEMS

This webinar aims to inform the sector of the progress achieved over the last 12 months. 

The agenda is

• Introduction & Welcome [NAFEMS, 5 min]
• VMAP SC: Legal association timeline and organisation
  [Fraunhofer SCAI, 5 min]
• VMAP Standard: Technical Overview and Updates
  [Fraunhofer SCAI, 10 min]
• VMAP Standard: Technical Working Groups [Robert Bosch, 10 min]
• Associated Projects [Fraunhofer SCAI, 20 min]
  • VMAP Analytics [SWERIM] – VMAP analytics drives industrial manufacturing using Smart digital twins.
  • LeBeDigital [BAM] – Life cycle of concrete: ontology development for the concrete production process chain.
  • German Aerospace Center [DLR] – Integrating the VMAP Standard in their in-house solver.
• Q&A [NAFEMS, 10 min]
   

Webinar Video

EUREKA’s R&D&I cluster, ITEA, honoured the VMAP project for outstanding results in the field of standardization with the "ITEA Award of Excellence for Standardization". The international project has succeeded in developing a vendor-neutral standard for the storage and transfer of data in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE). The VMAP standard improves interoperability in virtual engineering workflows and is already being used by many companies.

The ability to carry forward result data from one simulation step to another in a Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) software workflow has always been dependent on customised data transfer solutions, which requires a huge effort in terms of time and money.

The VMAP Project only represents the tip of the ice-berg. The VMAP SC intends to take this forward by advancing the standard in other multiphysics domains.

The VMAP Project team was recognized by ITEA for its tremendous effort & dedication.

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