[Event Announcement] 2025 MAGNA ECS SIMULATION CONFERENCE in Austria

Quickly identify fatigue locations to optimize the development process and reduce evaluation testing costs.

"FEMFAT" is a leading software for fatigue life prediction that performs fatigue analysis in combination with general finite element programs. With interfaces for multi-body simulation, optimization, and measurement systems, it allows for complete and convenient integration into the CAE process, providing optimal solutions for all customers through flexible licensing options. With over 30 years of continuous development, FEMFAT has refined fatigue analysis methods and gained a reputation for excellent fatigue evaluation, earning the trust of engineers worldwide. It contributes to improving the reliability of various industrial products, not only in the automotive industry but also in industrial machinery and plant equipment. Developed by engineers for engineers, FEMFAT offers advanced features and analysis options for predicting the fatigue life of metallic and non-metallic products, including seam welds and spot welds. It enables various analyses, such as those involving base materials with welds, spot welds, multi-axial analysis using road load data, and probabilistic loads based on PSD. *For more details, please download the PDF or contact us.*

• Structural Analysis

Simulating to predict defects on printed circuit boards used in power electronics products.

"FEMFAT MELCOM" is a software package developed by Magna Powertrain Engineering Center Steyr (ECS) to predict defects on printed circuit boards (PCBs) incorporated in power electronics products such as inverters through simulation. 【Features】 ■ Predicts cracks in solder joints on printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) due to vibrations in power electronics products. ■ Predicts flex cracks in multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) during the process of attaching PCBAs to power modules. ■ Predicts cracks due to thermal fatigue in response to temperature loads on PCBAs. *For more details, please download the PDF or contact us.

• Structural Analysis

Simulation input data calculation technology for vibration testing.

"FEMFAT LAB" is a powerful measurement data processing software that enables the visualization and analysis of vast amounts of data, serving as a standard tool across experimental, measurement, and development departments. It is equipped with features that allow for the instantaneous analysis of hundreds of channels and millions of time series data, as well as the automatic or manual removal of outlier drift values, shifts in average values, and spike values. In addition to selling the software mentioned above, we also offer contract services utilizing our software. Please feel free to contact us if you have any requests. 【Features】 ■ User-friendly for visualizing/analyzing large amounts of data ■ Supports various file format binary data, allowing data analysis without conversion ■ Achieves excellent convergence of iterations between measurement results and simulation results ■ Software capable of calculating time series vibration input data, etc. *For more details, please download the PDF or contact us.

• Mechanism Analysis

Simulation technology that considers dynamic behavior due to contact between components.

"MAMBA" is a mode-based contact analysis software that can effectively and accurately consider contact nonlinearity in static and dynamic simulations within multi-body simulation (MBS). It can be introduced without changing the existing analysis process if dynamic analysis using MBS has already been conducted. In addition to selling the above software, we also offer contract services utilizing our software. Please feel free to contact us if you have any requests. 【Features】 ■ Nonlinear contact analysis of elastic structures using MBS ■ Addition of contact modes to the mode synthesis method ■ Automatic detection of contact surfaces and automatic calculation of necessary contact modes ■ Dramatic improvement in result quality is expected in dynamic analysis of structures with joints that include contact ■ Faster computation time compared to contact analysis using nonlinear FEM, etc. *For more details, please download the PDF or contact us.

• Mechanism Analysis

[Instructor] Shintaro Fukasawa, President of BM Consulting Co., Ltd. Business Mathematics Educator [Key Lecture Content] There are things we somewhat think about. However, when asked for our opinions, we hesitate to speak up because we dread being questioned with "What is your basis?" This is a growing issue among business professionals. Shintaro Fukasawa, the only advocate of business mathematics in Japan and a business mathematics educator, identifies the inability of modern business people to articulate their thoughts and ideas as a "symptom." He finds commonalities between mathematical thinking and verbalization, and has developed a verbalization framework that anyone can easily practice. This content has been compiled into a book titled "How Can an Idea Become 'My Opinion'? - A Class to Turn Intuition into Logical Opinions" (2023). In this session, we will extract the essence of that book and explain how to create "logical and communicative opinions." You will take home tips that will dramatically change your business communication starting tomorrow.

[Speaker] Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. Area Energy Innovation Business Office Battery Business Group Manager Akira Oguri [Key Lecture Content] In a carbon-neutral society where renewable energy becomes the main power source, batteries play a crucial role in avoiding output suppression of renewable energy and providing adjustment capabilities to the power grid. Utilizing the knowledge, business experience, and engineering skills cultivated through NAS batteries and the electric power business, we will introduce our efforts to provide battery energy services that align with the actual usage of customers aiming for carbon neutrality and resilience enhancement. [Lecture Items] 1. Tokyo Electric Power Group's initiatives toward carbon neutrality 2. Current situation surrounding the battery market 3. Safety requirements for battery systems 4. Introduction of Tokyo Electric Power Group's initiatives related to batteries 5. Future business outlook 6. Q&A / Business card exchange

[Speaker] Takuya Oue, Executive Officer COO, ExaWizards Inc. Hiroaki Izuma, Advisor, Business Creation Division, Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. Advisor, ExaWizards Inc. [Key Lecture Content] Since the emergence of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, generative AI has rapidly permeated various aspects of society, fundamentally changing its nature. In Japan's energy industry, which is faced with the extremely challenging task of simultaneously addressing the supreme issues of decarbonization, stable supply, and economic growth, AX (AI Transformation) based on the utilization of AI plays a crucial role. This lecture will illustrate the AX in the energy sector and depict the vision for 2030 based on a wealth of examples. [Lecture Topics] 1. Structural transformation facing the energy industry 2. Energy AX from the field perspective 3. Learning from the AX strategies of major domestic players 4. Learning from advanced overseas examples 5. Vision for 2030 6. Q&A / Business card exchange

Thank you very much for your continued support. We are pleased to announce the 2024 Cutting Heat Treatment Research Conference, which will be held as follows. This year, it will be conducted online via ZOOM. <Date and Time> February 13, 2025 (Friday) Event Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Login starts at 9:30 AM) Cutting Part: 10:00 AM - DX & Environment: 1:00 PM - Heat Treatment Part: 3:00 PM - <Registration Method> This event will be conducted by prior reservation. Participation Fee: Free Registration Deadline: February 6, 2026 (Friday) *Please check the details at the provided URL. We look forward to your participation. Thank you very much for your cooperation. ◆ Seminar Information URL https://www.idemitsu.com/jp/business/lube/news/2025/251212.pdf

We will be exhibiting at "Japan IT Week Nagoya," which will be held at Port Messe Nagoya from February 25 (Wednesday) to February 27 (Friday), 2026. Japan IT Week Nagoya is the largest comprehensive exhibition in the Chubu region related to system development, operation, and maintenance. It consists of four exhibitions. Our company will be participating in the "Embedded, Edge, and IoT Development EXPO." At our booth, we will offer free consultations on our production management cloud system, "SmartF." If you have any of the following concerns, please feel free to stop by our booth: ✅ I want to know how to digitalize the manufacturing site. ✅ I am considering implementing barcode management. ✅ I want to move away from manual management using handwritten notes or Excel. ✅ I want to streamline the management of inventory, quality, and costs. ✅ I want to know the differences from the production management system I am currently using. We can also provide proposals based on the challenges faced by attendees. If you have any issues with digitalizing your operations, please feel free to consult with us!