Towards a Systems Engineering based Automotive Product Engineering Process

TL;DR

This paper proposes a systematic method to transform automotive product development into a more consistent, verifiable process by eliminating deficits and redundancies, thereby enabling a new systems engineering approach.

Contribution

It introduces a novel procedure to convert heterogeneous automotive development processes into a homogeneous, structured approach aligned with systems engineering principles.

Findings

Effective transformation demonstrated on an automotive use case

Improved process structure facilitates verification and validation

Reduces deficits and redundancies in product development

Abstract

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.