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Model‑Based Design Demystified: A Guided Introduction with Ansys Scade One

Model-based design (MBD) uses formal visual and textual models to unify requirements, design, verification, and validation, enabling teams to manage complexity, improve quality, and detect issues early in embedded systems development.

This approach supports growing demands for functionality, autonomy, and safety by providing structured abstractions, rigorous semantics, and integration with broader engineering processes, making development more collaborative and efficient.

Date/Time:
May 28, 2026
9 AM EDT

Venue:
Virtual

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Overview

Model‑based design (MBD) has become an essential approach for developing today’s increasingly complex embedded systems. Instead of relying solely on code as the primary expression of system behavior, MBD shifts development toward formalized visual and textual models that unify requirements, design logic, verification, and validation. This modeling‑first workflow helps teams reason more clearly about system functionality, reduce ambiguity, and detect issues earlier in the lifecycle—long before implementation bottlenecks appear.

As systems grow in functionality, autonomy, and safety demands, MBD supports engineers with structured abstractions, rigorous semantics, and seamless integration into broader Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes. Modern engineering environments enhance this further with interactive documentation, intuitive visual diagrams, expressive modeling languages, and integration with system architecture models, making MBD both accessible to newcomers and powerful for advanced applications. This webinar will introduce the core principles of model‑based design and explore how it helps teams improve system quality, streamline collaboration, and manage complexity across embedded software projects.

What Attendees Will Learn

  • The fundamental principles of model‑based design
  • How visual and textual models help capture behavior precisely and reduce ambiguity compared to traditional code‑first workflows.
  • How MBD supports earlier and more efficient verification and validation through formalized representations of system logic.
  • How MBD fits within the larger MBSE lifecycle—including requirements, system architecture, simulation, and software design.
  • How intuitive modeling environments and modern UI/UX improvements make the model‑based approach more accessible to a wider range of engineering roles.

Who Should Attend

  • Systems Engineers
  • Controls Engineers
  • Embedded Software Engineers
  • Software Architects
  • Model‑Based Design Engineers
  • Verification & Validation Engineers
  • R&D Engineers
  • Technical Leads / Engineering Managers

Speaker

  • Cedric Pasteur
Model based design with Scade One

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