Welcome to the autosim consortium members area. As the project progresses, documentation, form templates and information will be posted here for members. Eventually, this area will become an archive of all documents produced by the project, aiming to facilitate timely dissemination of information and communication between partners.

1 May 2008
As part of the Consultation Process of the project, a Questionnaire has been developed. The primary purpose of this questionnaire is to check whether there is general agreement for the findings of the project. The questionnaire is still open. Preliminary results of this survey were presented at the more

5 April 2008
The Future of Simulation in the Automotive Industry In an event attended by hundreds, major players from the European automotive sector presented on the findings from a joint project formed to chart a course for the future role of simulation in automotive product development. The work has focused on determining what more

7 November 2007
A White Paper is currently being developed, which will be one of the primary vehicles forcommunicating the findings of the project to a far wider audience during the consultation process. Topics covered by the White Paper include: CAE at Different Stages in Product Development Integration of Simulation into the Development more

16 February 2007
The Autosim mid-term review was held in Graz in January 2007, and was attended by members of the Consortium Steering Committee, as well as the EC Project Officer in charge of the project. The agenda and presentations made are now available for project members to view and download here. more

16 December 2006
Presentations from the 3rd technical workshop, held in Lisbon in November 2006, are now available for consortium members to download here . more

28 July 2006
The 3rd Autosim Technical Workshop will be held in Lisbon, Portugal on November 23rd and 24th 2006. Full details and registration information can be found in the meetings & workshops section of the site. more

11 May 2006
In order to enable project partners to more widely promote the aims and objectives of the Autosim project, a brief PowerPoint presentation has been produced for use at any relevant event. You can download the presentation here. As ever, any comments or suggestions are most welcome. more

20 April 2006
The 2nd Autosim Technical Workshop will be held in Munich, Germany on May 4th and 5th 2006. Full details and registration information can be found in the meetings & workshops section of the site. more

2 February 2006
All budget pre-payments have now been actioned by NAFEMS, and are currently with our bank for processing. Please accept our apologies for this slight delay. If you do not receive your budget pre-payment to your nominated bank account over the next 7-10 working days, please contact David Quinn at NAFEMS, and we will investigate. February more

19 January 2006
Thanks to all members who participated in the 1st Technical Workshop, held in Barcelona on the 17th and 18th of January. If you gave a presentation, please e-mail this as soon as possible to info@autosim.org , to enable us to post your presentation on the autosim website. Please note that the intention is to allow general access more

13 January 2006
NAFEMS expects to receive a pre-payment of 44% of the project budget within the next few weeks. Once we receive this money, we will be able to make an equivalent pre-payment to each of the project partners. This pre-payment cannot be distributed unless we have received the signed copies of Form A we require, as detailed here. more

12 December 2005
In the coming weeks, we will be distributing the advance payment of the project budget to partners. In order for us to do this, we need to receive your banking information ASAP. Please download and complete the Partner Banking Details form, and send to David Quinn either via e-mail on david.quinn@nafems.org , or by fax at +44 1355 24 more

2 December 2005
1st Technical Workshop Call The first autosim technical workshop will be held in Barcelona on January 17th-18th 2006. We are currently accepting proposals for presentations from all members of the engineering analysis community. To put your paper title forward, submit your proposal before December 15th 2005 more

1 December 2005
The first meeting of the autosim Consortium Steering Committee was held yesterday, November 30th, in Munich, Germany. The meeting was a great success, and has defined the initial objectives for the project, as well as attempting to divide responsibility within the CSC. The main outcome has been the development of these topics more

24 November 2005
Templates for project reports and presentations are now available for download here. All reports and presentations relating to the autosim project should use these templates, without exception. If you require any assistance with these files, please contact us and we will try to assist. more
19 October 2005
Return by November 19th! You will recently have received a letter from NAFEMS detailing the next steps in the autosim project. With this letter, a copy of Contract Number 012497, as well as three copies of Form A (Accesion to the Contract), signed by NAFEMS, was also included. In order to formally join the project, the appropriate more