Innovation today moves fast—but responsibility moves faster. dSPACE exists to ensure the technologies shaping tomorrow are safe, reliable, and validated long before they hit the road, air, or grid.
Peter Waeltermann, CEO of dSPACE says, “Our role is to make sure great ideas survive the journey from concept to production—flawlessly and safely.” That role is carried out across 35+ years of experience, with more than 2,800 global employees—2,000 of them engineers and computer scientists.
The company’s clients include automotive OEMs, aerospace developers, energy system innovators, and advanced agriculture machinery manufacturers. What they have in common is the need to test complex systems before they are deployed under real-world conditions.
dSPACE supports them with simulation and validation solutions that span the full product lifecycle—from first model to final test run. Its technologies are embedded in how vehicles, aircraft, and infrastructure are now designed, calibrated, and released.
The company operates from engineering hubs across key innovation centers worldwide. Local expertise is paired with global experience. That reach means dSPACE supports some of the world’s most advanced projects—without slowing them down.
From powertrains to flight control systems to renewable energy modules, every system that requires testing under edge-case conditions has likely crossed a dSPACE platform.
Simulation is where that starts. dSPACE offers hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), power HIL, and software-in-the-loop (SIL) environments to make sure developers aren’t guessing. This includes battery systems, electric motors, autonomous vehicle controls, and charging infrastructure—before a single real-world prototype is built.
The validation tools allow engineers to run through years of failure points, user conditions, and edge behavior—without ever taking something off the bench. It’s what helps make autonomous functions safer, electric systems more robust, and integration across modules more predictable.
dSPACE also supports rapid prototyping, allowing teams to adjust control strategies and software models in real time, shortening development cycles. This applies across sectors—on-road and off-road, passenger and commercial, manned and unmanned. For agriculture, dSPACE enables reliable field machinery systems—ensuring sensors, vehicle dynamics, and machine controls work together under load.
For aerospace, it supports control algorithms, embedded systems, and real-time fault simulations. In energy, its platforms validate smart grid systems, power electronics, and controller logic before any install or interconnect happens.
And for academia, dSPACE provides research-ready platforms that mirror industry conditions while supporting open experimentation. Every tool the company builds comes from real developer use-cases. Every update reflects what’s needed on the engineering floor—not what’s trending in marketing slides.
That approach has made dSPACE an integral partner across safety-critical fields. Its platforms are used to comply with legal standards and industry benchmarks. They enable proof-of-compliance workflows, traceability, and automated reporting.
This saves teams hundreds of hours while keeping projects on the right side of regulation. Support doesn’t end at hand-off. dSPACE engineers work with customer teams to tailor systems, solve problems, and ensure readiness at each stage.
The company doesn’t just provide equipment but builds relationships that hold up under tight timelines and growing system complexity. That’s especially critical now—as software-defined vehicles, AI-driven diagnostics, and cross-domain system integration become standard.
dSPACE has improved with each wave of innovation—and helped stabilize it. The result is a company that understands simulation and defines what it means to simulate and validate responsibly.
That makes dSPACE a part of how future technologies earn public trust. And in today’s world, that matters the most.