Simulation-Based Product Development at Cummins

Bob Tickel follows how Cummins shifted from build-and-test to simulation-led development: through analysis-led design, growing modelling and simulation capability, and the adoption of high-performance computing, automation and multidisciplinary optimisation. A central theme is the move toward optimisation, automation and robustness, which speeds up design exploration and cuts development cost, with real examples where automated workflows and machine learning widened what teams could explore. He also looks at making simulation accessible well beyond specialists, through reduced-order models, standard processes and simpler tools.

Bob G. Tickel is Director of Multi-Disciplinary Simulation at Cummins Inc., with nearly four decades of experience in simulation-driven product development.