Indestructible right from the start

Author(s):
Mark Yu (Caterpillar Inc.), 
Company: Caterpillar Inc., USA
Published: dSPACE Magazine 1/2008, Jul 2008

Construction, mining, demolition and forestry in the modern age are dynamic, increasingly complex tasks, and the heavy-duty equipment involved has a lot more intelligence inside than one would guess from the outside. The release tests on the electronic systems for the brand new machinery illustrate how development processes are conducted at Caterpillar. From function design with custom-built high-fidelity models to the validation of control software, Caterpillar has efficient processes in place.



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