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SIMULATION & ANALYSIS: AI and Machine Learning Central Themes at NAFEM’s Nordic Summit in Lund

Last week's big deal in the CAE space, Siemens' purchase of AI, HPC, simulation and analytics player Altair has undeniably pinpointed how important these pieces have become in product realization. That a company is valued at as much as just over $10 billion is clear evidence of how the needs related to simulation and analysis have increased radically in the wake of digitization. But the question now is, what it will look like in the future when artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) also make a broad entry into these domains. How can these technologies add value?
This question is a central theme when a number of the industry's leading representatives come to Lund, Sweden, where the organization NAFEM will hold its Nordic Conference on November 20 to 21.
For those unfamiliar with the organization, it may be noted that NAFEM, founded in 1983 with the specific goal of promoting the efficient use of finite elements and related technology. In fact, NAFEMS is the only independent association dedicated to FEA and CFD worldwide. Currently, there are over 1,000 member companies with the common interest base circulating around design and simulation.
An interesting fact when it comes to simulation and analysis related to AI is that people in the domain have actively thought about these pieces since the 1950s and more specifically in the area of engineering analysis with CAE systems there has been a strong trend for the industrialization of AI and ML since the 1980s. But during the last decade, the development has been particularly explosive, both in terms of how the use of software solutions has spread to wider layers within product development, and in terms of the commercial success of the companies that develops these solutions. Approximately the money invested in this during the latest decade has grown by around ten percent a year, or more, until, according to the PLM analyst CIMdata, in 2025 it amounts to an estimated just under $13 billion. This with Ansys as the leading company, followed by MathWorks, Siemens, Dassault Systemes and Altair; an order that will be completely changed in the aftermath of the Siemens/Altair deal. This combination will move up and become second in the market, after Ansys.
During the NAFEMS Nordic event there are anyway a number of interesting keynotes and lectures. In the main text below, we publish the entire program, but from the extensive agenda can be highlighted, among other things: • Grzegorz Orzechowski (LUT University) discussing AI-powered digital twins: "Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds in Modern Mecha(tro)nics", • Dassault Systeme's Padmeya Prashant Indurkar, Barakat Bokharaie and Jan Granlund: "AI-supported 3D -surrogate modeling - case study of thermomechanical simulation of a glass table" • Andre Tavares, Siemens Digital Industries Software: "Automated damage localization in carbon fiber composites via machine learning and deep learning"

In recent years, the combination of increased computing power, dedicated tools and huge interest in the technology has led to an exponential increase in usage. Most companies are sitting on a large amount of data, virtual or physical, that can be used to create models for better and smarter decision making.

This is what the agenda looks like for the NAFEMS Nordic Conference in Lund, Sweden.

Wednesday the 20th of November
10:30 Pre-seminar short course: AI for Simulation Engineers – Max Kassera (yasAI)

13:30 Welcome & Introduction. Pär-Ola Jansell (member of the NAFEMS NORDIC Steering Committee/Altair Engineering); Albert Roger Oswald (NAFEMS)

13:40 Keynote presentation. AI-Driven Digital Twins: Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds in Modern Mecha(tro)nics – Grzegorz Orzechowski (LUT University)

1​4:15 Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation with AI – Joakim Lindholm (Altair Engineering)

14:35 Data-Based Design of a Tracking Controller for Planar Closed-Loop Mechanisms  – Sanam Hajipour Talkouei, Dieter Bestle (University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg)

1​5:00 Event Detection and Cause Correlation for Crash Simulation Results – Dominik Borsotto (Sidact)

16:15 Machine Learning Tools and Applications for Optimization and Design Exploration – Dimitrios Drougkas (BETA CAE Systems)

1​6:40 Towards AI-Empowered Design Exploration – Jan Granlund (Dassault Systemes)

16:50 AI-Empowered 3D Surrogate Modelling: Case Study of Thermo-Mechanical Simulation of a Glass Table – Padmeya Prashant Indurkar, Barakat Bokharaie, Jan Granlund (Dassault Systemes)

1​7:15 Memory for Your AI: Lessons Learned from 6 Years of Applied Research on Contextual Graph-Data-Bases as Enabler for AI Use Cases – Christopher Woll (GNS Systems); Marco Lah (Context64.ai)

Thursday, 21st of November
08:30 Keynote presentation. Applications of AI/ML in Fatigue Analysis – Anssi Laukkanen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)

09:05 Automated Damage Localization in Carbon Fiber Composites via Machine Learning and Deep Learning – Andre Tavares (Siemens Digital Industries Software)

09:30 Artificial Neural Networks Aiding the Calibration Process of Polymers in the Packaging Industry – Eskil Andreasson (Tetra Pak); Md Shafiqul Islam (Blekinge Institute of Technology)

10:40 Modelling of Visco-Plasticity using Neural Networks – Martin Kroon (Linnaeus University)

11:05 AI-Driven Design Parameter Optimization for Sheet Metal Forming Processes – Kai Dietheim, Koutaiba Kassem-Manthey (GNS Gesellschaft für numerische Simulation); Semih Burak, Christian Terboven (RWTH Aachen University); Seyed Ali Mohammadi, Ahmad Tarraf, Felix Wolf (TU Darmstadt); Lukas Moj, Christopher Woll (GNS Systems)

11:30 Applications of AI in Engineering – Gustaf Jönsson (Altair Engineering)

13:00 Combining Simulation with Machine Learning During Various Design Phases of Turbomachinery – Erik Munktell (Siemens)

13:25 Data-Driven Optimization of Exhaust Valve Geometry for Wear Reduction

Mohammad A. Haghnejat (Wärtsilä/FS Dynamics ); Jouko Hintikka, Niclas Liljenfeldt (Wärtsilä); Luc St-Pierre (Aalto University)

13:50 Empowering Organizations with Engineering Intelligence to Revolutionize Product Development – Mariana Osorio (Neural Concept)

14:15 Discussion. AI and ML in Simulation Driven Design – How do these Technologies Add Value? – Pär-Ola Jansell (member of the NAFEMS NORDIC Steering Committee/Altair Engineering) MS NORDIC Steering Committee/Altair Engineering); Albert Roger Oswald (NAFEMS)

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