The day after the 16th International Modelica and FMI Conference we hosted our 3rd FMI Advisory Committee Meeting in Lucerne, with participants from Aarhus University, Ampere, Airbus, AVL, Beckhoff Automation, Bosch Research, Caterpillar Inc., COMSOL, Inc., Dassault Systèmes, DNV, EDAG Group, FMIOPT, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK , General Motors, Hyundai Motor Company, KEB, Keysight Technologies, Liebherr Aérospace Toulouse, MBI LLC, The MathWorks, Modelon, NVIDIA, Renault Group, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Saab, Siemens Healthineers, SINTEF NORDVEST, Synopsys Inc, Toshiba, tracetronic GmbH, University of Augsburg, VITO, Volvo Autonomous Solutions, and Wolfram System Modeler. It was great to get the direct feedback, pain points, future needs, and ideas from important users of the FMI and it was good to see that the FMI is already very broadly adopted and used with great success and benefit. FMI 3, our Layered Standards, and SSP already address most of the needs in the mid-term future.
Some topics that were additionally discussed:
- FMUs have several use cases, and it would be beneficial to consolidate several implementations.
- New computing platforms such as GPUs and Web assembly sandboxes gain importance, and it was discussed how FMI could make use of them.
- FMI usage for (dynamical) optimization gains importance, and there are several proposals to improve this even more.
We also saw that besides the FMI Standard itself it is very important to provide training material and usage guidelines.
Thanks to all participants for the engaged discussions, feedback, ideas!
