Many product development organizations have adopted model-based design to meet emissions regulations while reducing fuel consumption and ownership cost.
Design teams are challenged to optimize the delivery of complex, yet value-generating software while getting new machines to market as fast as possible.
Many believe that systems engineering principles are indeed the solution to electrical and electronic complexity and that companies who fail to embrace this paradigm will fall behind, or worse.
The topic of simulation can generate a wide variety of responses depending on who is speaking and their experience with the virtual development environment.