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Fact Sheet: Interface Standard for Integrated Virtual Material Modelling in Manufacturing Industry (VMAP)

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General

Short Description/ Transmitted Information	- VMAP is a vendor neutral standard for CAE data-storage to enhance interoperability in virtual engineering workflows - VMAP specification is freely (open & cost-free) available - VMAP development kit will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license (details currently under preparation, release planned early May 2020) - VMAP Standardization Community will be organized by NAFEMS association, details to be defined
Application Scope	- Describe models and results from 3D simulation tools (FEA, FVM, mesh-less models, etc.) - Initial use for detailed manufacturing and product/ component simulations
Maturity	Industrialization (potentially standardization)
Goals	- Flexibilization of integrated simulation tool-chains, by: - Standardized exchange format for models and result properties - Geometry and discretization - Coordinate and unit systems - Result and state variables - Parameters for (material) models - Meta and user data - Supplied IO routines for easy implementation
Penetration	- Industrial use-cases within VMAP project - Further use-cases from industrial partners in preparation - Growing tools support, such as MSC, ESI, Dynamore and many more - Ongoing technical discussions with further software vendors (Autodesk, Ansys, 3DS, Transvalor, MagmaSoft, SigmaSoft, etc) - The overall assesment is: Individual domains
Visibility	Approx. 50%
Promoting Bodies	NAFEMS, ITEA, VMAP Community (> 50 partner, member fee planned, similar to FMI)
Type	Own VMAP Standard rules, based on Modelica (FMI)
IT Standard Classification	- Interoperability Standard - Integration Standard
Data Format	HDF5* Binary Format
Relations to other standards	STEP AP209 & 242
Overlap with other standards	None or minimal

* https://www.hdfgroup.org/solutions/hdf5/

AVAILABLE ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION

Software Vendors

Software vendors will prepare own documentation

Industry Users

Under preparation
- Few test Cases
- Guidelines

Management

“Modelling & Simulation A vision of the state of play” https://itea3.org/magazine/35/march-2020/modellingsimulation.html

Positioning of VMAP in V-Model

Details

The only standard for exchange data in 3D CAE workflows

Remark:

VMAP is based on the ITEA VMAP project –
See also
- “Modelling & Simulation A vision of the state of play”
- https://itea3.org/magazine/35/march-2020/modelling-simulation.html

Reached goals:

Standard released and in use within a growing user and implementor community

Further goals

Addressing new use-cases within Multi-Scale Material simulation and Manufacturing Modelling
- A follow-up project called “VMAP analytics - Smart Analytics for Multi-Scale Material and Manufacturing Modelling” has received ITEA label and will probably start in November 2020 (https://itea3.org/project/vmap-analytics.html)
Setting a global de-facto standard

Relevance and Benefit for MBSE

The standard allows the community to utilize multi-disciplinary simulation processes based on standarad data exchange between the dedicated simulation domains
This capabilty simplifies the usage and by this widens the availability of multi-disciplinary simulation to the MBSE

Risks and Impediments

Extend the usage within more simulation tools
Expand the usage over more simulation disciplins
Simplify the usage by providing libraries for a more simple migration from specifc and individual interfaces to VMAP

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