The functional, digital vehicle-the backbone for integrated development of vehicle controls, chassis, and powertrain systems

摘要

As product complexity increases and competitive product development cycle times are reduced, hardware prototype creation and testing become major bottlenecks to successful new product launches. Due to these bottlenecks, leading global manufacturers are feeling increasing pressure to rapidly institute enterprise-wide, simulation-based design and virtual prototyping practices that can insure greater product performance and quality in a fraction of both the time and cost required with traditional build-and-test approaches. How can companies make this transition and develop confidence in virtual prototype modeling and simulation? This paper outliens the requirements for successful virtual prootyping implementations and discusses the industry trends supporting such a shift.