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Continuous improvement to meet new challenges

To meet emissions regulations and reduce fuel consumption and ownership cost, off-highway vehicle companies are developing electric drives, advanced power storage, alternative fuels, aftertreatment, operator assistance, next-gen hydraulics, and other solutions. These complex solutions depend on electronics that use control strategies implemented in software. In addition, these solutions must be implemented at lower cost and in less time than in the past. To achieve this, many product development organizations have adopted model-based design (MBD), and as a result have seen a significant decrease in development time and cost.

With MBD, engineers develop executable models of both the control strategies and the system under control. They then simulate these models and perform rapid prototyping, enabling quick evaluation of concepts and requirements validation. MBD provides the capability to test designs from initial concept through design elaboration, thereby uncovering problems earlier in development and reducing the cost to make corrections.