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INTRODUCTION

Michael Forster
Fluxus Technology Ltd
The chaining of engineering design and analysis into one process often introduces data exchange problems, both inside organisations and across supplier/customer boundaries: This leads to expensive time wastage and hinders the introduction of new methods and practices, which may often be necessary to ensure public safety or the competitive functioning of a commercial organisation.

The aim of ECITTT is to define these issues and suggest methods of improvement, encompassing special tools as well as work procedures and guidelines. ECITTT will also report on highly efficient mathematics in geometric modelling, in CAM, and in CAE, and on fracture analysis guidelines and tools, each of which will become relevant in the immediate future.

The ECITTT conference will

explain practical data exchange issues.
suggest how data exchange can be improved.
suggest how to link different CAE systems together.
report on progress in emerging technologies.
report on best practice application of CAE technologies, and draw attention to pitfalls.
provide delegates a sabbatical opportunity during which they can share experiences and review their strategies from a fresh viewpoint with interdisciplinary & international flavour.
initiate new personal networks and maybe even spark off promising new cooperation projects.

ECITTT is a “EuroConference” conceived for between 30 and 100 delegates comprising:

Engineering Analysis Specialists
CAE/CAD/CAM and PDM Application Programmers
Engineering Information Technology Managers
System Integration Planners, Developers and Managers
Young Researchers across academia and industry

EuroConferences are non-profitmaking events sponsored by the EC’s Research Directorate General, and rely on the support and unpaid work of their organisers. The EC’s RDG wants to encourage Young EU Researchers to be mobile, form interdisciplinary international research networks, and meet established senior researchers of academia and industry. ECITTT is organised in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), represented by Prof. Rida Farouki. Acknowledgements are due to every one who has contributed to this first European event of this kind.

Cambridge is one of the oldest university towns in the UK, and in these modern times also the origin of hopeful young researchers and of widely known engineering software (e.g. Parasolid, Acis). It is an appropriate location for this EuroConference on CAE Integration.