LMS International has published the schedule for its 2006 conferences, which will be held in Europe, the USA, Japan and China. More than 1000 engineers from leading manufacturing companies around the world attended the 2005 LMS conferences. Top-level keynote speakers from BMW, Renault, Elasis, Ford, Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Capgemini and Dassault Sytemes, and over 120 expert speakers shared their innovative views on product development and functional performance engineering.

LMS expects to further grow the attendance for the 2006 edition and continues to offer its user community a unique platform to share the latest trends and experiences in product development and engineering.

In addition to the continued series of LMS conferences in Europe, the USA and Japan, LMS will also hold its first conference in China on 31st May and 1st June in Beijing.

The fifth LMS European conference will be held on 22nd and 23rd March in Munich, Germany.

The US conference will be held on 4th and 5th April in Detroit, Michigan.

And the Japanese conference will be held on 13th and 14th September in Nagoya.

During each two-day conference engineering executives, senior managers and their technical staff will share their strategies and present application cases that illustrate how new approaches and technologies have helped them optimise their product development processes.

The conference is the ideal venue to discover the latest technology evolutions in virtual simulation and physical testing and to exchange best practices in performance engineering domains such as durability, ride and handling, acoustics, noise and vibration, structural integrity and more.