Case Study: Mercedes-Benz speeds concept vehicle prototyping with Maplesoft Maple and DynaFlexPro

Mercedes-Benz speeds concept vehicle prototyping 10,000x with Maplesoft

The customer, Mercedes-Benz, faced the significant challenge of prototyping its complex F300 Life Jet concept vehicle, a process that was extremely time-intensive. The design of the car's innovative Active Tilt Control suspension system had originally taken a team of engineers thousands of hours to complete. The vendor, Maplesoft, provided a solution using its Maple software together with the DynaFlexPro add-on tool.

Using Maplesoft's technology, an engineering partner was able to completely model the suspension dynamics of the F300 from scratch in a mere 45 minutes. This represented a productivity increase of four orders of magnitude, reducing the work from an estimated 10,000 hours to less than one hour. The solution also provided advantages in model analysis and the ability to effortlessly export equations for real-time simulation, dramatically accelerating the entire prototyping process.

Mercedes-Benz