Major domestic automobile manufacturers and parts manufacturers have formed a new organization to jointly work on the efficient development of vehicles using computer simulation technology.
The aim is to cooperate in basic development and enhance the competitiveness of next-generation technologies such as electrification of cars.
In addition to major automobile manufacturers such as Toyota Motor and Mazda, about 40 companies such as parts manufacturers and IT companies participated in the new organization, and a press conference was held online on the 24th.
The new organization will create a common model for "model-based development," in which the vehicle body and parts that match it are designed and developed using simulation technology on a computer, and will be used by each company.
It was necessary to repeat trial production and experiments to assemble the car body and parts, but the aim is to streamline the development of the car by utilizing a common simulation model.
In the automobile industry, the development of autonomous driving technology and the electrification of automobiles are accelerating worldwide, but domestic manufacturers participating in new organizations will cooperate in basic development to enhance the competitiveness of next-generation technologies. I want to go.
Mazda's senior innovation fellow and chairman of the new organization, Mitsuo Hitomi, said at the press conference, "Every manufacturer has more work to do. There is. "