Many simulation models are very detailed, powerful and complex. Consequently, people unfamiliar with their methodologies and syntax can have difficulty understanding the significance of the simulation results. This is a serious problem since these unfamiliar observers are often developers, managers and customers who need to make critical decisions about a product's development.

Altia solves this problem by helping modelers quickly create a user interface prototype for product simulations that look and behave like the product's real user interface. As a result, the people who need to make critical development and marketing decisions can easily operate and understand the simulation.

In addition to being an important communication tool, Altia can help the modeling expert during the design process. Altia's animated graphical objects can monitor important system parameters in a visually compact, domain-specific manner. This makes debugging and testing significantly more accurate and efficient.

Altia also benefits the development team by enabling a high degree of collaboration. Altia graphics can be connected to various simulators covering a number of engineering disciplines ranging from industrial design to control systems modeling to software engineering. The graphics for these models can be created once and re-used by other members of the development team. This saves significant time and provides a consistent, accurate view of the product model during each stage of the development process. In addition, the graphical user interface can be distributed and viewed on a web page so that engineers in different locations can efficiently collaborate.

These three benefits — involving customers early, debugging models faster, and enabling collaborative design — add up to one result: the right product gets to the market faster.

You've invested your future and reputation on the success of modeling and simulation. Simulation graphics from Altia help you optimize that investment and guarantee its success.