Towards a Systems Engineering based Automotive Product Engineering Process
This addresses inefficiencies in automotive product engineering processes, but it is incremental as it builds on existing systems engineering principles.
The paper tackles deficits and redundancies in automotive product development by proposing a methodical procedure to transform heterogeneous processes into a homogeneous, consistent systems engineering approach, demonstrating effectiveness on an automotive use case.
Deficit and redundancies in existing automotive product development hinder a systems engineering based development. In this paper we discuss a methodical procedure to eliminate deficits in the current product development and in turn to enable the introduction of a new systems engineering based development methodology. As the core part of our approach, we discuss how to transform an opaque heterogeneous product development to a homogenous consistent product development taking into account existing disciplines. Our approach paves the way to achieve a process structure that is more amenable to verification and validation. We show the effectiveness of our proposed solution approach on an automotive use case.