Once upon a time, manufacturers designed products and components, and subjected them to lengthy test programmes to see how they withstood the real world — and to establish if they worked as intended.
Then came simulation software, which allowed a lot of that testing to be undertaken ‘virtually’. The only catch: the computing horsepower required to perform the task. “You would design something, hand it over to a specialist team who would ‘mesh’ it and then run the analysis on a mainframe,” recalls Ian Pilkington, UK technical manager…
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