CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, June 9, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – SC Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd. (SCAE), a development engineering company focused on the automotive industry, and Secondmind, the leader in data-efficient engineering AI, today announced the conclusion of a strategic reseller agreement. SCAE will offer Secondmind’s award-winning, cloud-native model-based engineering software as a key part of its industry-leading technology services, unlocking development efficiencies and increased productivity for its OEM and Tier 1 vehicle design and development customers. This partnership is an anchor in SCAE’s broader strategy to address the increasing development complexity for CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric) vehicles.
This Value Added Reseller (VAR) agreement marks SCAE’s first partnership with a non-Japanese technology company and will enhance SCAE’s consulting services by integrating the company’s deep automotive know-how with Secondmind’s advanced Engineering AI. Secondmind’s British-developed software is powered by data-efficient Active Learning, allowing engineers to make informed decisions with more confidence, while significantly reducing reliance on excessive simulations and physical testing.
Secondmind software focuses on two areas where technical complexity is greatest in development programs:
Secondmind for design space exploration
In the design phase, simulation is used extensively to explore design values in high-dimensional spaces to meet target performance. The number of combinations can be enormous, with conventional empirical rules and extensive simulation methods requiring a lot of time and expense. Secondmind for Design Space Exploration reduces simulations by up to 80% and quantifies uncertainty to help engineers confidently navigate complex design spaces and make informed trade-offs across all design phases. The result is that more pre-validated designs are discovered in less time, with less risk of expensive rework later in the development process. A leading engine manufacturer recently discovered three times more feasible designs in half the time than their existing simulator, resulting in more choices, flexibility and confidence.
Secondmind for calibration
The calibration of e-motors, motors and other propulsion systems is a time-consuming process that traditionally requires extensive experimentation and reliance on large amounts of physical test data to achieve target performance. Secondmind for Calibration intelligently automates experimental design and reduces reliance on physical testing to only the data that contributes most to achieving the performance objective. This reduces the time required to calibrate complex systems by more than 50%. With Secondmind, Mazda Motor Corporation has achieved a 59% reduction in engineering hours in calibration compared to conventional methods.
Toshimi Yamanoi, President and CEO of SC Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd. said: “At SCAE, our mission is to bridge the most innovative technologies emerging globally with Japan’s automotive engineers. Secondmind is exactly the kind of partner we were looking for: a company with truly transformative technology and proven results. The feedback we’ve received from our customers on Secondmind’s capabilities gives us real confidence that this will change the way Japanese automakers design and test products. This partnership opens an exciting new chapter for SCAE, and we look forward to the impact we will make together create.”
Gary Brotman, CEO of Secondmind, said: “We are grateful to SCAE for welcoming Secondmind as its first technology partner from outside Japan. This partnership represents a meaningful milestone for us, but more importantly, it opens the door to bring the benefits of data-efficient Engineering AI to more SCAE customers across Japan. By uniting SCAE’s trusted engineering leadership with our leading model-based design and calibration technologies, we will help OEMs and their suppliers manage increasing technical complexity, shorten development cycles, reduce costs, and deliver the uncompromising quality that defines Japan’s automotive industry. We are excited to support SCAE in shaping the future of vehicle development and innovation.”
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About Secondmind
Secondmind exists to help engineers design better products faster. In the automotive sector, the company’s cloud-native software, powered by Secondmind Active Learning, addresses the increasing complexity of vehicle design and development by reducing design simulation time and calibration overhead, allowing engineers to reimagine vehicle design and accelerate the transition to carbon-neutral mobility. Secondmind has been recognized with the Automotive Testing Technology International ‘Alternative Powertrain Test Innovation of the Year Award’; included in the Barclays Eagle Labs Ones to Watch AI:100, selected for the Tech Nation Future Fifty scale-up program and named by Bloomberg as one of 25 UK startups to watch.
For more information please visit: https://www.secondmind.ai
About SC Automotive Engineering
SC Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd. is an engineering company founded in August 2020 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, with the mission to “promote Japan’s automotive production.” The company employs dozens of experts with experience as department and section managers at OEMs and suppliers in the automotive sector. As a trusted technology development partner that works closely with customers on their challenges, it offers a wide range of services from design, prototyping and evaluation to advice for various forms of mobility. Leveraging the unique global network and technological capabilities of a general trading company (sogo shosha), it continues to face challenges towards the realization of a future mobility society, in collaboration with domestic and international partners.
For more information please visit: https://scautomotiveengineering.com
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