MCADCafe Industry Predictions for 2019: The Year of System Simulation – Modelon

Today’s engineering teams are driven to innovate faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost. Following the 2018 mega-trends of the high-tech and transportation industries, 2019 will bring more of the spotlight on electrification and autonomy. Within the automotive industry, the rapidly increasing demand for electric cars comes with the expectation that vehicles designed in 2019 are far superior in energy efficiency and overall system design than anything we’ve seen before. Within aerospace industry, manufacturers are tasked with producing hybrid and electric aircraft to drive down operating costs and keep up to pace with today’s influx of environmental policies. To achieve these initiatives, efficient system simulation and increased collaboration between suppliers and system developers is required. Ultimately, system simulation is a necessary ingredient for these industries to stay competitive in this environment.

Modelon predicts that system simulation will grow significantly faster than the overall CAE market. System simulation users can future-proof their development workflows by choosing tools that make collaboration easy and provide fast exploration of solutions. Modelon also predicts the appearance and growth of cloud-native and browser-based system simulation tools. These tools are a natural solution to address both the collaboration aspect and the scalability to do a fast evaluation of the solution space. Open standards like Modelica, FMI from the Modelica association, and possibly OSLC by OASIS, simplify the collaboration between suppliers and OEM and will play an important role as innovation enablers. Though model-based design processes have become prominent in the last decades, the increased use of open standards is necessary to overcome hurdles to collaborate and innovate at speed. Additionally, the strength of Modelica to speed up innovation by providing building blocks for systems in validated libraries of reusable components will lead to growth in the Modelica tool space.

In summary, 2019 is the year for cloud-native, open standards-based system simulation to unleash the innovation potential of industry leaders that want to stay ahead of the pack.

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