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Insights into sustainability: Environmental, economic, and/or societal goals for a successful, and long-lasting, off-highway industry. - Moving toward sustainable product development with model-based design

Sustainability provides an opportunity to affect a fundamental shift in the market-seizing this opportunity can give businesses a significant competitive advantage. To do this, the off-highway industry will need to adopt a systematic product design and development approach that will allow engineers to design efficient products using a development process that integrates sustainability assessment into the innovation processes.

The off-highway industry has dealt with increasingly stringent emissions regulations to reduce impact on the environment. This experience offers a blueprint for addressing future sustainability challenges. MathWorks has worked with off-highway leaders as they used model-based design to develop embedded control systems to meet the emissions challenges. These control systems later enabled many improvements in machine productivity.