The Rail Safety and Standards Board Podcast

Collaborative Modelling—Sharing Data Without Giving Away Your Secrets

October 07, 2021 RSSB Season 1 Episode 27
The Rail Safety and Standards Board Podcast
Collaborative Modelling—Sharing Data Without Giving Away Your Secrets
Show Notes

How can you share your data outputs without revealling how you found them? The Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) protects commercially sensitive and valuable intellectual property, while generating richer answers. In this episode David Golightly and Ken Pierce from Newcastle University talk about the tool, which is creating opportunities for rail.

01:30 About David.

02:02 About Ken.

03:00 The FMI and how it works.

06:14 How you can share your data outputs without revealling how you found them .

08:43 FMI and RSSB's work on decarbonisation.

11:54 How FMI could be applied to operational performance and infrastructure construction.

13:50 How the automotive industry uses FMI to test OEM components  before being ordered, manufactured and shipped.

17:51 Opportunities for FMI to benefit the rail industry.

19:44 FMI in human performance modelling that could predict railway system performance.

21:14 How FMI could support the vision for Great British Railways.

23:38 How FMI can support the Williams-Shapps plan for delivering systems solutions.

Resources related to this episode:

Introduction to FMI by Hubertus Tummescheit, CEO Modelon Inc (23 mins)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfludIklmJg 

The FMI standard: https://fmi-standard.org/ 

List of 150 modelling and simulation tools that already support FMI:
 https://fmi-standard.org/tools/