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POWERFUL SOFTWARE Benefits Design of Heavy-Duty Vehicles The latest software tools provide a full design and simulation environment to cover all aspects of vehicle systems. contributed by Spencer Chin
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riven by the increasing importance of the Internet of Things (IoT) and ever-more demanding requirements from various industries including heavy vehicles, computer-aided design (CAD) modeling and simulation soft-
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ware are benefiting from not only new features but also greater integration with other software tools. Powerful software tools are enabling a more multi-disciplined approach to designing vehicles and other systems. The existence of the cloud is allow-
ing data to be easily shared among designers regardless of location, and is serving as a repository to store information for future designs. There is also increasing integration between tools from different companies that is helping to streamline design workflows.
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