“Our physical prototypes were costing us up to £50,000 each, with each alteration leading to lengthy redesigns. Costly design mistakes simply don’t happen virtually. They are spotted and rectified, speedily and without compromise. This is engineering design at its purest, enabling us to reduce both time-to-market and unit cost.” The TCE team looked to Virtalis, which has expertise in CAD to VR conversion. Virtalis’s 3D modelling team, working closely with TCE engineers, produced a detailed visualisation of the driver’s workstation. We have saved an in ordinate amount of time and money by missing out the prototype stage. Potential new ISO standards, such as those for Operator Visibility will mean that virtual mock-ups will have a life beyond the design stage.

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