What is happening in Model Based Design (MBD)? There is mayhem, bedlam, pandemonium, chaos; driving engineers to the brink of exasperation. Why so much frustration? There are at least 10 different CAD suppliers, 3 different PDM tools, 5 CAD translation companies, 2 national CAD and digital standards, LOTAR, company standards, proprietary issues, data transfer, data consistency, multiple customers, multiple vendors, design updates, maintenance, PMI, interoperability and all this just to get a single part built. Why on earth would an engineer want to adopt a MBD practice with all this claptrap to deal with?

Model-based design techniques can help you break out "of the box" to explore creative ways to design and manufacture hardware.

How to create CAD designs to facilitate collaboration and inter-operability between designers and the rest of the team. Designers, often trapped by looming schedules and inadequate process, need tools to fulfill the demands of collaboration and inter-operability. This presentation will address a set of simple standards and processes that allow designers to include necessary data and modeling standards directly in their CAD models. They are quick and clear instructions that capture the information required by the entire team. This strategy facilitates collaboration among team members such as analysis, parts and materials, manufacturing and configuration management.

Article that hi-lights the benefits of Model-Based (or -centric) design and how it can reduce a product's time to market and cost.

Whitepaper discussing the importance of Model-Based Design (MBD) in the Satellite, Spacecraft and Launch Vehicle Business.