The ASSESS Initiative was formed by Cyon Research and intrinSIM to bring together key players to guide and influence strategies for software tools for model-based analysis, simulation, and systems engineering. ASSESS is a broad reaching, multi-industry initiative to expand the use and benefit of software tools for model-based analysis, simulation and systems engineering.
The primary goal of the ASSESS Initiative is to prepare the industry for the coming challenges it faces—leading to significantly increase in the usage of and the benefit from these software technologies across the full spectrum of industries, applications and users. Several users of simulation technologies gave keynote presentations including Rodney Dreisbach formerly of The Boeing Company where he served as a Senior Technical Fellow. Rodney challenged the ASSESS audience with “The first generation of CAx is nearing an end! and A New First Generation of CAx is beginning” and an impassioned call for a “Unified Vision” for converting STASES to Analysis, Simulation and Systems Engineering Tools made Smarter (ASSETS). Other keynotes were given by Jesse Citizen, Director, Defense Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (DMSCO), Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering; Roger Burkhart, Technology Architect at Deere & Company; and Zack Eckblad, server/product division at Intel.
ASSESS was a working congress, set up to educate, guide and influence software strategies for multidisciplinary simulation and design exploration. The working groups explored the following themes:
- Democratizing STASES: Making simulation usable and available to anyone who needs it
- STASES Confidence: Building confidence in the simulation methods & processes
- Business Challenges: Topics that vendors and users should consider from licensing to engaging non-technical executives
- The Intersection of Systems Modeling and Classical Simulation: Enabling simulation of very complex systems with an improved connection to detailed analyses
- Aligning Commercial, Government & Research Interests and Efforts: Bringing alignment of efforts to maximize effectiveness of all sectors
- Potential Game Changers: Technology changes that are on the horizon that can have profound effects
- Looking Forward: What’s coming that the ASSESS community needs to be paying attention to
The results of the working groups will be presented at COFES 2016 in April.
“The ever-increasing demand for improved performance of new products has driven their designs to higher levels of system and sub-system complexities. In turn, for industries to remain competitive in engineering new products, their cross-functional system and subsystem modeling and simulation expectations have been increasing at a phenomenal rate,” says Rod Dreisbach, Senior Technical Fellow, Computational Structures Technology, (Retired), The Boeing Company. “I am proud to be an active participant in the ASSESS Initiative. The ASSESS 2016 Congress brought together many of the key players in Analysis, Simulation and Systems Engineering as a great first step for the industry to collaborate on a unified vision to meet the future needs for simulation.”
Three ASSESS sessions will be held during COFES (Congress for the Future of Engineering Software) 2016 in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 7-10: an ACCESS Initiative Advisory Committee meeting, a Special Session for reporting the findings from ASSESS 2016 and an ASSESS roundtable discussion.
The next meetings of the ASSESS Initiative will take place at COFES 2016 in April and NAFEMS Americas Conference in June.
The ASSESS Initiative is an industry effort focused on strategies for software tools for model-based analysis, simulation, and systems engineering. The goal of the ASSESS Initiative is to prepare the analysis, simulation, and systems engineering industry for the coming challenges it is facing. If the industry continues on its current path, it will experience crippling shortages of PhD Analysts required to use currently available tools. While there are promising technologies that may mitigate the projected shortage, much still needs to be done in order to enable the potential “revolution” of increased usage and benefit from these software technologies across the full spectrum of industries, applications and users (in both the government and commercial sectors). The ASSESS Initiative acts by guiding and influencing strategies for the software vendor, manufacturer, academic, and government communities.
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