The ITEA project VMAP, officially ended in
September 2020, will continue the excellent
work done on the much-needed VMAP standard
via a legal international association registered
in Germany, called the VMAP Standard
Community (VMAP SC). Future guidance,
collaboration, development and maintenance
can be effectively managed and encouraged by
this open and vendor-neutral association. The
process of legalising the VMAP SC continues
currently with the initial founder group of
entities; membership is open to all interested
parties including independent software
vendors, developers, academia, consultancies,
manufacturers and other entities.
VMAP is an open and free standard for the
transfer of material and engineering information
between simulations within a Computer Aided
Engineering (CAE) process chain. This provides simulation and design engineers with
a fast solution to pass information
from one calculation to another
without needing to create one-off time
consuming interfaces. Initially work
on the VMAP standards has focussed
on the manufacturing industry but the
standard is general enough to enable
its use in many other sectors, for
example work has started on Machine
Learning, Artificial Intelligence and
Digital Twins applications.
In May 2020 the first version of the VMAP
standard was distributed externally to the
project and currently many market leaders
in the CAE sector work with VMAP. The VMAP
SC organised their first public event, the 1st
International Conference of CAE Interoperability
held online on 19-20 October 2020, and
business event that focussed on developing the
innovation system within Europe and connecting
people and organisations in an early stage of
developing solutions for city challenges.
With nearly 800 registrations coming from 65+
countries and over 40 workshops, this online
event proved to be a good substitute for the
physical event this year.
During this event, which was spread over three
Mondays, ITEA and its partners organised five
workshops focussed on Safety and Security in
the city, ITEA as a Smart City R&D&I platform, the
integration of IT developments in a Smart City
generated much excitement with about 330
registrations and 25 presentations from
different industrial sectors all focussing on
interoperability within engineering simulation.
More information
https://www.vmap.eu.com
