Abstract
The urgent issues for an automobile company today are how to reduced the time and cost required for developing a new car. CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) has been regarded as an efficient way to solve these issues, and as a numerical experiment to replace prototypes and experiments. Recently the necessity for FOA (First Order Analysis) is under discussion. This refers to CAE that covers processes such as project planning and grand design, which have not been paid much attention so far. FOA is expected to help designers create basic design and eventually, to reduce time for the entire production.
