Sept. 24, 2021
Japan Automotive Model-Based Engineering center

Japan Automotive Model-Based Engineering Center Established
Expanding the reach of Monozukuri and contributing to further development of Japan’s
automotive industry
With five Japanese automobile manufacturers and five parts manufacturers as executive
members, we announced today the establishment of the Japan Automotive Model-BasedEngineering center (JAMBE), whose mission is to promote Model-Based Development(MBD)*1 across Japan’s automotive industry.
The center was founded to fulfill the purpose of creating the most-advanced development
community in the mobility sector, able to carry out optimal and high-grade Monozukuri
efficiently and without rework. Primarily consisting of private companies, the center
succeeds an initiative led by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry called“Enrichment of Suriawase 2.0*2” — an industry-academia-government and strategic future
policy for MBD in the automobile industry — which had been compiled as a result ofdiscussions conducted by the Study Group for Ideal Approaches to Model Utilization in theAutomobile Industry*3.
The center ultimately aims to enable academia and businesses to share digital models*4
across the board, linking academic research with development of parts, systems andvehicles. Therefore, allowing both sides to coordinate and make adjustments (Suriawase inJapanese) digitally from the initial stages of development.

JAMBE’s Guiding principle / Vision / Goal and Pros of participating members:<Guiding principle> Contribute to making Japan’s automotive industry more competitive internationally byspreading and deploying MBD technology and concretizing the Suriawase 2.0 concept’s
high-grade virtual model development technology.
<Vision> Utilize MBD to promote carbon neutrality and innovation of vehicle technology torespond to needs such as CASE, thereby contributing to SDGs.
 Encourage organizations of all sizes to use virtual models, thereby promoting highly
efficient research and development.
<Goal>
 Concretize Suriawase 2.0: MBR*5 (Academia) creates new models and MBD (Industry)enhances development efficiency by using the same models across parts and vehicle
manufacturers in the engineering chain for their Suriawase engineering style, creating
new value and achieving the most efficient development processes in the world, freefrom rework.

<Pros of participating members>
 Members can expect profit expansion and future growth through enhancement andstreamlining of their capabilities for research and development.
 Even comparatively small-sized company members can expect business expansion
through a reduction in spending using manufacturing CAE (computer-aidedengineering) or strengthened capabilities to make new business propositions.
Comment by Mitsuo Hitomi, chairperson of JAMBE’s steering committee:“With five Japanese automobile manufacturers, five parts manufacturers and the Japan
Automobile Research Institute (JARI) as secretariat, we have established JAMBE todisseminate model-based development across the automotive industry in Japan,” said
Mitsuo Hitomi, to commemorate the launch of the center, “Through JAMBE’s initiatives, wewill endeavor to make Japan’s automobile industry more competitive globally, while also
developing human resources who will take on future digital manufacturing. I hope many
concerned parties, including universities, research institutions, tool vendors andengineering service providers, will relate to and take part in JAMBE, so we can all contributeto the further development of Japan’s manufacturing.”
Illustration of cooperation across industry, academia and governmentOverview of Japan Automotive Model-Based Engineering center
Name:
Japan Automotive Model-Based Engineering center (JAMBE)
Business outline: Promotion of model-based development technologies, establishment ofstructure of model distribution across business entities as well as
between industry and academia[Joint research business project of participating companies (members)
and Japan Automotive Research Institute JARI (secretariat)]
Chairperson of steering committee:
Mitsuo Hitomi (Senior Innovation Fellow, Mazda Motor Corporation)
Operation cost:
Approximately 60 million yen per year
Established:
July 9, 2021

Participating companies (as of Sept. 24, 2021)
Executive members:
AISIN CORPORATION, JATCO Ltd, SUBARU CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION,TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Panasonic Corporation, Honda
Motor Co., Ltd., Mazda Motor Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Secretariat:

Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI)

Companies planning to join JAMBE (as of Sept. 24, 2021)
Lead members
AZAPA Co., Ltd., NTT DATA ENGINEERING SYSTEMS Corporation, DAIHATSU MOTOR CO.,LTD., TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd., NEXTY
ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., MITSUBISHI MOTORSCORPORATION

Partner members
IDAJ Co., LTD., IPG Automotive K.K., AdvanceSoft Corporation, ANSYS Japan K.K., ITOCHU
Techno-Solutions Corporation, Integration Technology Co., Ltd., eXmotion Co., Ltd., SCSKCorporation, MCOR Co.,Ltd., Cybernet Systems Co., Ltd., Siemens K.K., ZUKEN Inc., ZUKEN
Modelinx Inc., dSPACE Japan K.K., Digital Arts Inc., DIGITAL PROCESS LTD, Information
Services International-Dentsu, Ltd., Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Toyota
Technical Development Corporation, National Instruments Japan Corporation, NewtonWorks
Corporation, PERSOL TECHNOLOGY STAFF CO.,LTD., RYOMO SYSTEMS CO., LTD.

Regular members
Hino Motors, Ltd., plus an extra company

Online forum to commemorate the start of JAMBE
A briefing session will be held on the outline of JAMBE, its membership system andexamples of model distribution for prospective member organizations.
Date:
How to apply:Oct. 8, 2021 from 15:00 to 17:30
Visit JAMBE’s official website athttps://www.jambe.jp/uploads/20210924b.pdf
Application deadline: Oct. 6, 2021

Contact details
JARI Inquiries: sogomado@jari.or.jp*1 Model-Based Development (MBD):

A development style that uses virtual models on a computer, not using actual prototype parts
throughout design and development activities to realize efficient development activities by saving considerable time and effort thatwould usually be spent elaborating performance concepts, designing, making prototype parts, and testing.
*2 Suriawase 2.0: A concept that uses MBD to heighten the degree of coordination of cross-disciplinary development (Suriawaseengineering style) between companies and between industry and academia throughout the engineering chain.
*3 Established in November 2015 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Please visit the website below for further details.
https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2018/0404_001.html*4 A “model” is a simulated object that is made to behave like a real object using computer simulation. Depending on the needs, models
of various scales are used, including models of individual parts (e.g., pistons of an engine), models of systems/units (e.g., an engine),and models of entire vehicles. Models can also refer to mathematical models of phenomena such as fuel combustion, hydraulic oil flow,etc.
*5 Model-Based Research (MBR): MBR means activities of basic research and numerous experiments of physical phenomena to createmodels with higher accuracy that are required for successful MBD.