Recently all industries are faced with fierce competition in a global market, and are demanding faster and more efficient manufacturing processes.

Especially in the automotive industry, the social demands for safety, exhaust gas regulations and high fuel cost and the consumer demands for drivability, quietness and convenience are increasing. In response to those demands, the control system for automobiles has to be capable of executing much more precise and advanced control strategies, and the system becomes more detailed, complicated and extended. Furthermore, the pressure against the reduction of development time, cost savings and development of automotive control systems are rapidly increasing.

These Pressures increase as time goes by. Under such circumstances, the automotive control systems are becoming larger, more accurate, and complex. The announcement of V-Shape Development Process and the introduction of Model Based Development (MBD) have brought very successful results.

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