A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test the concept.
Today, manufacturers are under pressure to reduce time to market and optimize products to higher levels of performance and reliability. A much higher number of products are being developed in the form of virtual prototypes in which engineering simulation software is used to predict performance prior to constructing functional (Physical) prototypes.
ATOM team can quickly explore the performance of thousands of design alternatives without investing the time and money required to build physical prototypes. The ability to explore a wide range of design alternatives leads to improvements in performance and design quality.
The time required to bring the product to market is usually reduced substantially because virtual prototypes can be produced much faster than physical prototypes.
