At the annual industry meeting point Open House Germany, IPG Automotive presented the latest functions of the CarMaker product family as well as innovative simulation solutions. The Karlsruhe-based company also illustrated how it plans to advance future vehicle development with efficiency enhancement and digitalization, despite complex challenges.
IPG Automotive’s Open House Germany 2025 was a phenomenal success. The event themed “Virtual in Process, Real in Progress – Shift Left to Save Costs and Time” hosted by IPG Automotive in Karlsruhe attracted more than 300 guests from the automotive industry and research sector. Attendees experienced innovative technologies and exchanged insights on new trends and the latest developments.
For years now, the automotive industry has been undergoing a profound transformation and is hence facing a variety of challenges. In this context, IPG Automotive offers a forum for discussion to shape the future together, with the vision to boost efficiency by increasing virtualization in development processes. Virtualization helps to significantly reduce costs, time to market, and the use of physical prototypes, while at the same time safeguarding system security and traceability. Making the use of simulation intuitive and digital twins accessible also for non-simulation experts significantly speeds up daily development tasks.
Steffen Schmidt, President & CEO from IPG Automotive emphasized: “The automotive industry is currently facing complex challenges, from increasing digitalization to growing efficiency requirements in vehicle development. Our Open House Germany 2025 convincingly demonstrated how we can master these challenges together with innovative, virtual development solutions. The discussions and especially the close collaboration with our customers and partners are incredibly valuable in that regard.”
In three technical sessions, IPG Automotive presented how to successfully implement the shift left with rapid software validation, apply extensive simulation solutions from IPG Automotive, and scale simulation using VIRTO. Tom de Schutter, Senior Vice President at Synopsys, opened the event with a keynote speech focusing on the use of digital twins and the associated potential of efficiency enhancement leveraging consistent and early software validation. In addition, the accompanying trade exhibition not only provided the opportunity to test and learn about the latest product developments at IPG Automotive, but it also allowed for direct exchange with experts and partners.
