RICOS Co. Ltd. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Yu Ihara; hereinafter “RICOS”), a technology company that leverages AI and simulation technologies to improve the efficiency and value of product design, is pleased to announce that it has begun a validation project with Mazda Motor Corporation (President and CEO: Masahiro Moro; hereinafter “Mazda”) using AI-CAE algorithms for optimization. In Mazda’s research and development of cabin airflow for automotive climate control, the project will combine AI-CAE tools with optimization methods to efficiently identify airflow patterns that satisfy required conditions and improve understanding of the underlying physical phenomena, with the aim of enhancing cabin comfort while reducing the energy required for climate control.

■ About RICOS’s Optimization Technology
RICOS offers RICOS Generative CAE, an application that uses its proprietary CAD system and simulation technologies to identify optimal geometries and conditions within customer-defined constraints. RICOS Generative CAE has received a CES Innovation Awards® honor. For more information, please visit the dedicated product page below.
https://hs.ricos.co.jp/gen-cae

■ About RICOS Lightning
RICOS Lightning is an AI-CAE solution developed by RICOS that uses AI algorithms to predict simulation results. By replacing time-consuming simulation calculations with predictions generated by RICOS Lightning, users can significantly reduce computation time. In addition, the AI algorithms used in RICOS Lightning can output physical quantities such as flow, pressure, and temperature throughout three-dimensional space, enabling detailed analysis for practical design work.
For more information about RICOS Lightning, please visit the product page below.
https://www.ricos.co.jp/ricos-production-suite/ricos-lightning/

■ Company Information
Mazda Motor Corporation
Address: 3-1 Shinchi, Fuchu-cho, Aki-gun, Hiroshima, Japan
Representative: Masahiro Moro, President and CEO
Website: https://www.mazda.com/ja/

RICOS Co. Ltd.
Address: 2-3-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Representative: Yu Ihara, Representative Director
Website: https://www.ricos.co.jp/
Careers: https://www.ricos.co.jp/recruit/