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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedSoftware speeds Nissan's model-based design: automaker halves development time for an emission-reduction system meeting California's partial zero-emission vehicle-standard.(nissan motor company ltd)
Control Engineering, December, 2005
New emission standards, environmentally conscious customers, and engineering tools challenge automobile manufacturers. Even with those challenges, however, Nissan Motor Company Ltd. sought to be the world's first automobile manufacturer to deliver a vehicle to market with an exhaust-emission reduction technology that met the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) Partial Zero Emission Vehicle (PZEV) standard.
Historically, Nissan relied on a lengthy, paper-based development process using real engine hardware. This process required redundant design steps and thousands of iterations to achieve the desired system performance.
By replacing a paper-based design process with The Mathworks Inc.'s software tools for model-based design, Nissan designed an...
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