ASSESS Initiative

ASSESS is a broad reaching multi-industry initiative …

…to expand significantly the use and business benefit of software tools for performing model-based analysis, simulation, systems engineering, and simulation-driven design in the engineering applications domain.

More and more organizations are looking to improve their competitiveness by leveraging Engineering Simulation (analysis, simulation, and systems engineering in the engineering applications domain) for improved design decision support, Simulation Driven Design, System Driven Design, smart (generative) design and robust performance evaluation of their full portfolio of products and processes. Deterrents to attaining this objective currently include factors such as lack of understanding of the strategic business benefit of engineering simulation by C-level executives, lack of integration of the required diverse proprietary simulation tool capabilities and data, and high levels of expertise to use most analysis and simulation tools and processes.

The primary goal of the ASSESS Initiative is to facilitate a revolution of enablement that will vastly increase the availability and utility of Engineering Simulation, leading to significantly increased usage and business benefit from these computing technologies across the full spectrum of industries, applications and users. The vision of the ASSESS Initiative is to guide and influence software strategies for:

• Opening up access to sophisticated tools for those currently denied access due to lack of sufficient expertise.
• Removing limitations of current tools that currently require high levels of talent.
• Establishing a clear path to understanding by C-Level executives about the relationship between Engineering Simulation and the nature of their strategic business objectives.
• Improving significantly the introduction of new technologies and collaborative applications of Engineering Simulation and systems engineering.
• Improving collaboration and synchronization of development and implementation efforts between Government, Commercial, and Research activities, as related to Engineering Simulation.
• Creating a collaborative environment for strategic discussions by including all parties involved with computing tools for Engineering Simulation.
• Enabling significant growth in the applicability, usage and business benefit of Engineering Simulation.

It is intended that ASSESS will interact and collaborate with multiple activities and organizations across the complete spectrum of Engineering Simulation, including NAFEMS, INCOSE, Defense Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (DMSCO), IEEE, CIMdata, Revolution in Simulation, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, and others.

The ASSESS Initiative Advisory Committee has established the following Working Groups that are focused on addressing issues related to the following themes of the initiative:

1. Democratization of Engineering Simulation (DoES)
2. Engineering Simulation Confidence/Governance
3. Business Challenges
4. The Intersection of Systems Modeling and Classical Simulation
5. Aligning Commercial, Government & Research Interests and Efforts

The ASSESS Initiative Initiative under the guidance of the ASSESS Initiative Advisory Committee will use a variety of activities, including but not limited to:

• Supporting an annual ASSESS Congress bringing together the community of domain experts, industry analysts, software providers, researchers, and others in the community of Engineering Simulation to review the current status, issues, goals and actionable items of the ASSESS Initiative
• Creating multiple opportunities for meetings, discussion and experience exchange
• Facilitating collaborative assessment and planning across the community of domain experts, industry analysts, software providers, and researchers targeted at increasing the usage and benefit of Engineering Simulation
• Enabling focused research activities targeted at addressing the key themes and challenges around ASSESS
• Promoting breakthrough technologies for more effective and more efficient Engineering Simulation solutions
• Encourage software strategies which are in line with ASSESS philosophy
  • “Fit for Purpose” Apps
  • Knowledge Capture & reuse
  • Shareable software components
• Collecting and publishing ASSESS success stories
• Supporting appropriate standards development

By working together, model-based analysis, simulation and systems engineering can be focused on developing Engineering Simulation environments for experiencing real-time multi-physical response simulations. The ASSESS Initiative community aims to take the challenge of targeting realistic simulation of complex engineering problems at the speed of human thought!