The 2014 Great Lakes RUM was our biggest and best RUM to date! Over 560 customers, presenters, sponsors, and SIMULIA employees gathered together at the beautiful Inn at St. Johns to network and take in the fantastic presentations provided by both SIMULIA and customers alike. Some of the interesting technical highlights from the event can be seen below.

 Great Lakes Michigan - Technical Highlights

• Keynote speaker, Dan Gross of Honda R&D, presented some of the CAE methods that Honda uses to aid in the strength and durability validation of automotive chassis systems, and how these methods have helped to improve the competitiveness of Honda and Acura vehicle designs.
• We learned about what's new in Abaqus 6.14, Isight 5.8 & 5.9, Tosca 8.0 & 8.1, and fe-safe 6.5.
• Excellent presentations by Johnson Controls, Federal Mogul, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Hyundai, and General Motors were well received.
• Paul Lam of SIMULIA gave a very useful presentation about ways to efficiently use Abaqus license tokens and how to optimize token usage by proper analysis setup as well as specific hardware improvements.

Attached are some of the presentations from the Great Lakes RUM, made available for distribution to attendees. Please note: Do not use Internet Explorer to download the presentations, this browser has been causing problems with viewing.

Thanks to our attendees, partners, and employees for making this wonderful event possible. See you next year!

Also, please be sure to check out our 2015 training schedule for the Great Lakes, Canada, and Erie regions (below). We hope to see you at many classes next year!