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tion month was reduced to <1/20th of the previous level and the desired eect was
achieved, as shown in Figure 7.20 (Amasaka, 2008).
7.2.5 Conclusion
With a view to helping corporations survive worldwide quality competition, the author
brought about reform of the development design business process. is reform entailed
the change from conventional development methods that use experimental evalua-
tion based on actual vehicles and tests to predictive evaluation based on development
methods that use highly reliable CAE analysis. Given this background, the author has
proposed the Strategic Development Design CAE Model employing TDS.
In order to demonstrate its eectiveness, the author devised the Intelligenc ...