The Boeing Engineering Analysis System is a menu-driven simulation package for modelling, analysis and design of large complex dynamical systems. The latest version, EASY5x, also provides multi-layered hierarchical modelling facilities and runs under X Windows. The package has many powerful nonlinear/ linear, continuous/discrete, steady-state analysis and optimization functions. This paper describes an introduction to the facilities and features offered by EASY5x. The modelling, control and optimization of a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) is presented as an industrial example to evaluate some important features of EASY5x.
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