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FOUR WAYS TO DIGITALLY TRANSFORM YOUR DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE THROUGH AUTOMOTIVE
ENGINEERING

CREATING NEXT-GEN SUSTAINABLE AUTOMOBILES IS POSSIBLE, BUT YOU’LL NEED TO
EMBRACE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TO MAKE IT A REALITY



By Brett Hillhouse | 4 minute read | August 4, 2021





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Sustainability is a business imperative. Climate change, dwindling natural
resources, and ever-increasing demands on our energy supply mandate and
transform the way we operate. These forces are disrupting business operations
and supply chains in unexpected ways, compelling the automotive industry to
fundamentally rethink the way they function. As you read in part one of this
blog series, the next generation sustainable automobile is becoming a reality,
but not without auto manufacturers undertaking a huge digital transformation.
The industry has reached a tipping point where traditional product design
solutions, and systems, software, and electrical engineering methods can no
longer manage the requirements for the complexity of sustainable automobiles. In
this post, we’ll discuss four areas ripe for digital transformation and how
automotive engineering is helping fuel this transformation.

 1. Strategic Reuse of Software in Automotive Engineering: Consider reusability
    in automotive engineering software: this is a significant area of investment
    for automotive OEMs and suppliers. And there are excellent examples of
    reusable architectures/platforms throughout the industry, mostly related to
    mechanical platforms, such as Volkswagen’s MQB Platform. However, reuse in
    electrical engineering (EE) and software engineering is a different beast.
    It is not about common software bill of materials (BoMs) but about enabling
    complete engineering artifacts across programs globally. This includes the
    full lifecycle of software artifacts, from requirements to systems and
    software models to test plans, cases and results. It is also a major
    transformation for most businesses and requires them to engineer with reuse
    and variability in mind. For example, procurement of a cruise control switch
    requires the software to support a 5-volt and 12-volt control system, along
    with a sliding switch on the column, as well as a momentary switch on the
    steering wheel.
    
 2. Automotive compliance and traceability: There are multiple compliance and
    regulatory standards that automotive manufacturers must meet across safety
    and cyber standards such as ISO26262 and ISO21434, as well as process
    standards such as ASPICE. A common requirement in these standards is full
    traceability of the entire design process — from requirements to
    architecture, from models to test plans, and finally to test results. This
    is a daunting task and too often compliance teams try to document these
    requirements in spreadsheets and diagrams. IBM Engineering Lifecycle
    Management tools enable this required traceability, even across engineering
    domains. In addition, IBM has built ASPICE and leading compliance processes
    into our tools, allowing engineers to establish compliance as part of doing
    their normal engineering work. Dr. Bernhard Rieger, PMT Head and Head of
    Quality and Processes at Continental Chassis & Safety, says about the IBM
    Engineering Lifecycle Management platform, “The shift towards autonomous,
    connected, electrified, and shared vehicles have a major impact on our
    business. In order to meet these changing requirements, we are working with
    IBM to reinvent the way we develop and deploy products.”
 3. Agile software development and SAFe: As the industry moves to the
    next-generation of sustainable automobiles and transforms vehicles to a true
    software defined vehicle, many will find that old waterfall processes will
    be inadequate for the task. However, many programs have experienced
    significant issues when trying to adopt agile practices like Scaled Agile
    Framework (SAFe). Even though the automotive industry has trained tens of
    thousands of engineers on SAFe in the past years, there are many more
    examples of failed transformations than successful ones. To address this
    issue IBM has mapped ASPICE processes and work products fully into SAFe
    process steps. This allows the business to have much greater confidence that
    software will be delivered on time as IBM’s SAFe / ASPICE implementation
    marries the standard agile process to program milestones.
 4. Seamless product development lifecycle: To successfully compete in
    developing the next generation of vehicles, manufacturers will need to adopt
    a seamless development lifecycle. This development lifecycle has to provide
    full transparency and complete traceability across the functional areas of
    mechanical, electrical, and software development. The lifecycle must enable
    change management as well as reusability through versioning and variants,
    and it must support integrating compliance and regulatory standards into the
    day-to-day development processes ensuring you can address any inquires,
    audits and reporting requests. Your software and systems development teams
    not only need the best tools for requirements, test and workflow management,
    as well as software design – they need a digital foundation that enables
    these tools to work in concert. Ask yourself, what good is having a
    requirements management tool if it does not work seamlessly with your test
    management tool? How do you successfully manage change requests, test
    failures, or effectively communicate across all your stakeholders? A digital
    foundation will help optimize the development process, providing your
    development teams the additional bandwidth to build vehicles for today and
    tomorrow. IBM’s digital foundation provides connectivity between your tools
    so that your development team not only has traceability between and across
    your tools, dashboards and reports that reflect your entire development
    lifecycle, but it also helps future-proof your development environment as
    new tools become available.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management represents a full systems and software
engineering lifecycle solution, which provides a digital foundation for managing
your development environment. IBM provides industry leading tools for
requirements, systems and software modeling, workflow and test – and all these
tools integrate across this digital foundation. And this is a digital foundation
that is open, supporting the open standard, OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle
Collaboration), which means that you can leverage your third-party tool (e.g.
Jira, Git, Jenkin) investment across this digital foundation.



Read this IBM Business value report to get more insights about the automotive
industry.

Read the Kisaco research report to better understand the Engineering ALM market
landscape and why IBM has been ranked a leader for 2020-21.



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