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Automotive
Five key areas for accelerating automotiveinnovation
Enabling smarter automotive product and systems engineering processes
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IntroductionThe number of lines of code in todays automobiles rivals the
code found in fighter jets, with 50 or more networked electronic
control units (ECUs) to execute the code. Rapid innovations in
electrical and electronic (E/E) systems are now the norm. For
example, in just the past few years, collision avoidance systems
that share information with radar and braking systems have
become increasingly common. These onboard systems are also
being integrated with external systems and services, such as crashresponse and roadside assistance.
The automotive industry is extremely competitive, requiring
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and automotive
suppliers around the world to strive for innovation and gains in
cost efficiency. Just surviving in this climate is challenging and
requires rapid progress, but to stand out or gain market share
that takes something consistently special, year after year. This
white paper explores some key challenges automotive companies
face in creating smarter, more sophisticated automobiles that are
made up of many systems of systems along with how a more
holistic approach can help accelerate innovation while improving
quality.
Addressing compounding complexitiesBringing an automotive product or component to the
marketplace can involve complex requirements that must
be addressed by numerous teams spread across different
departments, companies and geographies. For products or
components that are part of a larger system, significant develop-
ment obstacles quickly add up. And for an entire vehicle, the
challenges become exponentially more complex, with major
implications on time to market and manufacturing costs.
The new realities require more coordinated, collaborative and
traceable processes across the product development lifecycle
to help contain costs, optimize time to market, and support
compliance with regulations and standards.
Shifting to a comprehensive systems and software
engineering approach
IBM believes automotive OEMs and suppliers need to mature
their software engineering and embrace systems engineering tomanage the increasing complexity. Software engineering is
essential to deliver the innovation provided by the E/E
components. Systems engineering, defined as a multidiscipline
approach to creating a system or product that includes
mechanical components, hardware, software, people and
information, is essential for a number of reasons:
It empowers organizations to manage links within E/E
development as well as in relation to mechanical, hydraulic
and fluid engineering components. It serves as an umbrella discipline to coordinate and facilitate
communication among the different engineering disciplinesthat have different processes and priorities.
It allows for optimization at the product level instead of the
discipline level, which is important for better controlling
overall costs and quality. For example, a team that decides to
change a windshield wiper fluid reservoir design to save five
cents needs to confer with other disciplines. Otherwise, the
change could result in 20 dollars in added costs resulting from
the need to reroute wiring and modify software to address
latency problems in ECUs associated with the design change.
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Providing stakeholders with the information they need to make
better decisions can reduce development times, lower risk and
improve customer satisfaction. Yet achieving traceability across
the automobile development lifecycle is complicated because
it involves maintaining links between requirements, change
requests, issues, versions of directories, files and design artifacts
from multiple disciplines that may have been affected.
The IBM approachIBM can provide an unambiguous, near-real-time view of the
effects of changeoften with little overhead for the developer
or project managerthrough a linked data approach. Based on
the same concept that links content on the Internet, teams
can analyze and query data and relationships to gain real-time
visibility into issues that have been corrected, work currently in
progress, and how previous problems were resolved and by
whom. The linked data approach also provides a way for engi-
neers to trace large volumes of features back to requirements
and other lifecycle data to help with change impact analysis,
enabling them to reuse requirements for common components
across multiple product lines for cost savings.
Key area 3: supply chain collaborationDevelopment complexity increases with the number of
contractors in the supply chain developing subsystems that
must interact with other systems to deliver features (such as
collision avoidance). Reducing development cost and managing
complexity requires close communication and integration
between OEMs and their suppliers. Suppliers need to align
design and product development with rapidly changing OEM
requirements while increasing product quality and reducing time
to market and cost.
The IBM approach
The integrated, open-standards-based IBM solution supports
improved communication and collaboration among globally
distributed engineering teams and suppliers. Requirements deliv-
ered as documents and returned with markups require a lot of
time and manual work to process. IBM provides the ability to
share requirements electronically through industry standards to
more efficiently collaborate and manage requirements in the
supply chain. The change and project management componentsof the solution can give visibility into the supply chain to help
manage project risks.
Sharing information helps increase the likelihood that individual
teams will get specifications right from the beginning; that each
side is working on the correct, approved set of requirements; and
that adjustments can be made quickly as requirements change.
Key area 4: standards and complianceAdoption of auto industry platforms such as the AUTomotive
Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR) and compliance
with standards such as CMMI, SPICE or ISO 26262 requires
investment, leading to higher costs and pushing already strained
resources. Suppliers must find ways to automate platform
adoption and compliance efforts to help jump-start delivery for
higher quality components.
The IBM approach
IBMs open, extensible platform helps facilitate compliance with
standards by facilitating incremental adoption of new processes
and infrastructure within existing environments, especially
when used in conjunction with best practices and process
guidance. Our approach connects a heterogeneous engineering
environment and doesnt require you to move all data into one
repository.
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Because of the time and labor-intensive nature of compliance
processes, the IBM solution provides automated enforcement
of lifecycle processes and built-in reporting capabilities that
are essential to streamlining processes and reducing costs.
Predefined templates for ISO 26262 processes and AUTOSAR
along with automated traceability and test result report
generation capabilities can help you reduce the time, effort
and cost of compliance.
Key area 5: innovationTo reduce costs and manage complexity as the rate of innovation
in embedded devices increases, automotive manufacturers
require a more disciplined, integrated approach to component
engineering with suppliers. Suppliers need to be able to align
closely with rapidly changing OEM specifications to deliver the
right high-quality component each time.
Historically, software development was not a primary skill, and
organizations managed to make do with cobbled together teams
and processes. Now, however, demands for software innovation
are outpacing the ability of many organizations to deliver.
To stay competitive and support rapid, efficient innovation,
organizations must consider software development as core to
their business.
The IBM approach
IBM Rational tools can help automotive software makers
develop innovative software faster. The integrated toolset helps
ensure that you can rapidly track and close out changes to soft-
ware. More effective OEM and supplier collaboration can not
only make it easier for suppliers to deliver the right component
the first time, but it can also help improve quality while reducingturn times.
In essence, Rational tools and processes can support a reuse-
centric development process that allows for the same basic
architecture for E/E systems to be reused across multiple
vehicles. By virtually eliminating the need to develop and
maintain multiple detached systems in parallel, organizations
can reduce costs and improve efficiencies in ways that would
otherwise not be possible.
Accelerate the adoption of smarterpracticesIn the race to cost-effectively and efficiently deliver innovative,
high-quality automobiles, the right capabilities can make all
the difference. So the faster you can expand from traditional
mechanical engineering practices to include electronic and
embedded software development the better. Integrated system
and software engineering solutions that provide capabilities for
addressing the complexities of a rapidly accelerating technology
curve are becoming critical to sustaining competitive advantages.
As a system and software solution provider, IBM can provide apowerful, comprehensive, open-standards-based solution to help
your company address todays and tomorrows major challenges
in automotive product and systems engineering. Our solutions
are designed to help you:
Optimize engineering costs within complex distributed
E/E engineering supply chains Reduce the risk of quality issues while helping speed time to
market Achieve compliance with ISO 26262 for safety-related
E/E systems
More easily migrate to standard platforms such as AUTOSARor GENIVI
Demonstrate system and software engineering maturity
through Automotive SPICE and CMMI
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