Computer-aided engineering (CAE) for system analysis

Computer-aided engineering (CAE) for systems analysis is needed to address conceptual and preliminary design for a broad class of products. System analysis encompasses many engineering disciplines and the associated CAE technology will play a key role in product development and design. Improved products can be designed by employing easy-to-use model building tools and sophisticated mathematical algorithms, which accurately predict performance and cost of future products. Lessons learned from CAD/CAM, particularly in the graphics and database management areas, combined with recent algorithm research, and supported with sufficiently powerful hardware will enable CAE systems to achieve marked productivity improvements. The authors describe their experience in computer-aided engineering for control system design. This discussion forms the basis of identifying future CAE needs and their realizations.