five key areas for accelerating automotive innovation

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IBM Software

Rational

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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