Cover story: . Benefits of animation in the simulation of a machining and assembly line

For the model builder, animation is a productivity tool which speeds the process of locating and removing errors in the model. While correct functioning of an animation does not imply the complete verification of the underlying model, many of the errors in a model will signal their presence by grossly inappropriate behavior of the animation. Animation does not eliminate the need for manual checking of calculations or for statistical verification methods, but it does serve as an important productivity tool for augmenting these methods.