I'm sure we are in a very exciting time in engineering,
and if you look at global challenges for let's say climate or demographic changes or mobility,
you really require the most profound engineering in order to solve these particular
issues, and that's not going to be in five years or 10 years, it's going to take several decades,
even several generations. Electromagnetics is the driver of a lot of other physics,
if you've got an electromagnetic field then you've got other problems, magnetics isn't the
only problem, you've got a thermal problem, you've got an NVH problem, you've got a mechanical problem,
a structural problem, and where we are with Simcenter at the moment, is that provides us a
multiphysics solution, it gives us a way of coupling the electromagnetics, to the structural, to the thermal,
alternative fluids, the cooling systems, and so on. Where we can get to now, is that they were close to,
reasonably close to reality, probably almost as close as you need to get because when you
build an electrical machine, you've got to build it very cheaply, and so the production lines are fully
automated and the devices that come out at the end have a lot of variance in their performance.
There's no point in predicting the performance to 0.1 percent because what, your manufacture has got a
five percent variation or more, now it's at the end, and in terms of what we can do in simulation now,
five percent is relatively easy across the board of multiphysics, so we now
have the capability of doing something that's pretty much virtual reality, we can, if we're
willing to spend a little bit of time, we can tell you exactly what this device is going to do,
to the accuracy that you need to do, so when you're talking about digital twin, we have a digital twin.
Let me highlight here what the importance is of the accelerator portfolio in the context of
electromagnetics. And basically, what it allow us to do, is that we can really shift the paradigm here,
whereas up to now if you look at electromagnetic simulation, you essentially consider this as a
point solution somewhere, let's say floating point solution in space if you want, but what we do with
this, is really shift the paradigm. We shift the paradigm from that point solution into a real
engineering processm what our customers really appreciate. Koen and I talk a lot about energy
savings and where we could go with what we're doing, and if you look at the numbers, if you
look at the amount of electrical power that's generated in the world at the moment, and say
if we get a one percent gain in efficiency at the usage end of the day,
the amount of power we save per year is I think enough to power about 25 million houses.
So the goal of one percent more if we can get it, is that we will get rid
of a whole pile of power stations that we may not need. We've got to get these savings.
And if you look at electromagnetics, I think really, today it's at the core, at the heart of
every major industrial trend of today. If you look at electrification for example, without
electromagnetic engineering you really cannot bring electrification to the level that we see
today, that you want to see, y you cannot go into a 5G era, 5G specs, you cannot live up to that without
electromagnetic engineering, and even simply speaking, if you would not have electromagnetic
engineering, I think you cannot really build an electrified aircraft because it would be too heavy
to fly in the first place, so it's really at the core of every major industry trend we see today
in the market. It's going to be kind of exciting to see what's going to happen, the capabilities
are there, they're coming together, it's finally becoming real, and the computer power is there, the
systems are there, technology is there, it's just a matter of putting it all together.
It's no longer dreaming in technicolor, it's getting much nearer to reality.