Optimization Culture Arena at Volvo Car Group

CAE has been used for a long time in the vehicle industry. CAE methods for replacing physical testing will continue to develop however a shift in focus and application of CAE methods for the early development phases can be seen in the vehicle industry. This indicates a trend to a more CAE driven development. This will put high demands of development of CAE methods and tools to drive the design.

To support this shift to more upfront CAE an Optimization Culture Arena has been launched at Volvo Car Group. This arena is a cross technical network for knowledge sharing and optimization competence development at VCG that consist of people from CAE, attribute areas, design, testing, technical specialists, academy etc. The arena function is to support implementation of an optimization culture and support development of guidelines and methods regarding optimization. The arena in general and some good examples from the organization and the future directions will be presented.