Maplesoft, a provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics has announced a multi-year contract with Toyota Motor Corporation. The partnership will produce advanced physical modelling tools to help Toyota move to a new product development process called the Model-Based Development (MBD). Key features of the new process include Control System Design and Physical (“Plant”) modelling based on a symbolic approach.
Toyota has been one of the earliest among industrial companies to embrace Model-Based Design, the concept of creating a computer-based model of a system to analyze, test, improve, and optimize the design before actually building the physical system. In the initial stages, this was used in the design, simulation, and implementation of control systems using tools from companies such as The MathWorks®. Toyota is now expanding its scope with the development of the new Model-Based Development process.
The goal of MBD is to improve time-to-market, quality, and reliability, while reducing cost. Physical modeling requires a symbolic approach to computations in order to accurately and efficiently represent real-world physical systems. Maple is an important part of this framework, providing the ideal mathematical environment for Physics-based modeling.
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