2/13/03 -OPTIMUM Power Technology will be displaying its revolutionary Automated Design Expert system at SAE World Congress booth #1618 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 13, 2003 - Automated Design is the world's first Expert System for engine simulation and design. This unique and innovative software product employs a rigorous scientific design process, which fully exploits the benefits of "simulation-based virtual prototyping", to rapidly create optimized engine designs in large design spaces. It relies on the accuracy and powerful parametric capabilities of Virtual Engines to create and simulate the performance of each new design. It provides a true multi-user environment in which knowledge and expertise is shared and supports network supercomputing through parallel-processing on ubiquitous Windows(tm) PC's. The key elements of the Automated Design Expert System include -   A centralized, secure database including a Knowledge Base   Advanced Design of Experiments (DOE) techniques that facilitate extensive and repeatable design space analysis   Powerful parallel-processing capabilities using the existing, latent computational power of every Windows PC on a local-area-network which can be applied to engine design problem solving