[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

About ROAD: The "Roundtable on the Purpose of Autonomous Driving (ROAD)" conference series has evolved into a unique platform for interdis-ciplinary dialogue and international collaboration in the field of autonomous driving and autonomous mobility. Established in 2016, ROAD has brought together researchers, industry leaders, and public sector stakeholders from six countries across three continents. Based on this background, the upcoming ROAD 2026 will focus on "safety” and "driving AI”—the final pieces of the autonomous driving puzzle—to advance discussions on establishing the foundational framework for ensuring safety quality and obtaining regular-tory approval for autonomous driving. We also intend to discuss the international commonalities and differences regarding the social value brought about by ADS vehicles in terms of automation, intelligent driving, and mobility. We have established a total of five compelling themes for the Round Workshops, consisting of two topics related to “The Last Piece” and three topics related to the social value of ADS, as shown below. 1) Round Workshop 1 - Horizons of E2E Driving AI → Can AI Understand the Driving Environment Like Humans? 2) Round Workshop 2 - Beyond the Unknown: Safety Cases for ADS → Can Safety Ever Be Proven? 3) Round Workshop 3 - Envisioning Smart City Mobility → Can Smart City Mobility Bridge the Mobility Divide? 4) Round Workshop 4 - Logistics Enhancement Through Autonomous Tracking → Will Logistics Become Human-Free? 5) Round Workshop 5 - The Evolution of CASE: SDV/AIDV → Will Automakers Become AI Companies? We hope you’ll all join us!

[Speaker] Masashi Sugita, President and CEO of LEX Style Co., Ltd. [Key Lecture Content] The power consumption of AI servers used in data centers has significantly increased, making traditional air cooling insufficient for operation. This lecture will organize the requirements for introducing a liquid cooling system into air-cooled data centers and explain the implementation method using free cooling with specific design details. When handling high-density AI servers, energy efficiency is required, and the widely used energy efficiency indicator, as well as the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Resource and Energy Agency's PUE regulation of "1.3 or below," will be explained along with practical operational insights. [Lecture Items] 1. Heat dissipation methods for high-density, high-heat AI servers 2. Basics and importance of PUE/pPUE 3. PUE regulation of "1.3 or below" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Resource and Energy Agency 4. AI server implementation and requirements for new data centers 5. Summary and future outlook 6. Q&A / Business card exchange

[Key Lecture Content] 1. Promotion of SAF Introduction Yasushi Yamashita, Director, Carbon Neutral Promotion Office, Aviation Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism 1. Importance of SAF in the decarbonization of the aviation sector 2. Initiatives to promote the introduction of SAF 3. Q&A / Business card exchange 2. Japan Airlines' Challenge Towards Net Zero CO2 Emissions by 2050 Kazuki Hirotani, Group Leader, GX Planning Group, Sustainability Promotion Department, Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. 1. Introduction of our five initiatives for CO2 emission reduction 2. Initiatives for reducing fuel consumption (introduction of fuel-efficient aircraft, operational improvements) 3. Initiatives for fuel transition (sustainable aviation fuel SAF) 4. Initiatives for reductions outside the value chain (carbon credits, new removal technologies) 5. Initiatives to deepen collaboration with society 6. Q&A / Business card exchange

[Instructor] Yuichiro Kabushiki, Partner Lawyer at TMI Comprehensive Law Office [Key Lecture Content] With the spread of AI, there is growing attention on the civil liability of developers, providers, and users of AI. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will publish "Guidelines on the Interpretation and Application of Civil Liability in AI Utilization" in April 2026, and the Ministry of Justice will also establish an expert meeting to examine civil liability related to unauthorized use of images and voices generated by AI in the same month. As the full enforcement of the AI Promotion Act and the revision of AI guidelines are underway, it is necessary to design and operate governance based on the potential responsibilities that may arise retrospectively. In this seminar, based on the guidelines from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and drawing on litigation practice experience as a judge and lawyer, we will organize the basic framework for assessing civil liability and explain fundamental methods for designing and operating governance based on risk analysis. Furthermore, we will examine the framework for civil liability and the design and operation of governance using hypothetical cases that are likely to pose practical issues.

In this seminar, we will welcome Mr. Satoru Hayami from Waseda University, who will explain the latest trends in AI utilization in manufacturing, as well as the evolution of technologies such as agent-based AI and physical AI, and the opportunities and key points for practical application in the manufacturing industry. Furthermore, Mr. Tsubasa Shibata, representative of Next Opt, will introduce processes aimed at practical implementation, incorporating actual case studies from manufacturing sites. We hope you will envision the "potential for AI utilization in your company" and take home hints that will lead to improvements in your operations starting tomorrow. We look forward to your participation.