This paper is presenting a proposal of a novel approach to automotive electronic/software systems development. It is based on the combination of Set-Based Concurrent Engineering, a Toyota approach to product development, with the standard V-Model of software development. Automotive industry currently faces the problem of growing complexity of electronic/software systems. This issue is especiall...

Automotive model-based systems engineering needs to be adapted to the industry specific needs, in particular by implementing appropriate means of representing and operating with variability. We rely on existing modeling techniques as an opportunity to provide a description of variability adapted to a systems engineering model. However, we also need to take into account requirements related to b...

In the automotive industry, embedded control processes determine the most important characteristics of the developed embedded systems. In this paper we present the "windshield wiper" case study, which is an application of process family engineering [1], an approach to software product line engineering that takes into account the importance of control processes in the development of embedded con...

1 Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Solar Energy Science and Technology, School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2 Faculty of Physics and Electronic Technology, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Materials, Hubei University, Wuhan, China, 3 Department of Energy Technology, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, 4 Ångström...

Yuefei Wang 1,2,*, Hao Hu 1, Li Zhang 1, Nan Zhang 1 and Xuhui Sun 1 1 School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China; [email protected] (H.H.); [email protected] (L.Z.); [email protected] (N.Z.); [email protected] (X.S.) 2 Engineering Research Center of Safety Critical Industrial Measurement and Control Technology of Ministry ...

Sheet metal is commonly used in the automotive industry. The requirements for developing approaches for manufacturing automotive panels have become increasingly important as carmakers seek to shorten their time to market. However, designing and manufacturing mold dies for automotive sheet metal panels is time-consuming as several processes use the trial-and-error method. The die design period f...

Presently, the automotive industry is facing enormous pressure due to global competition and ever changing legislative, economic and customer demands. Product and process development in the automotive manufacturing industry is a challenging task for many reasons. Current product life cycle management (PLM) systems tend to be product-focussed. Though, information about processes and resources ar...

Modern vehicles are connected with the Internet through a range of wireless cellular network technologies. This provides the basis for many novel applications and use-cases towards intelligent vehicles, offering enhanced vehicle safety, traffic management, and driver and passenger convenience capabilities. The connectivity further enables new distributed software architectures that can provide ...

Many diverse and important barriers, both real and perceived, inhibit automakers’ adoption of advanced composite materials. A strategy to produce an all-advanced-composite body-in-white (BIW) commercially could be the best method to overcome these barriers. This paper summarizes the ultralight, hybrid-electric “hypercar” concept, emphasizing why massoptimization is crucial to its design; summar...

Bei modernen Fahrzeugen wird die Funktionalität zunehmend durch Software bereitgestellt. Das Spektrum reicht von der Motorsteuerung bis hin zum Allradantrieb und schon bald zu X-by-Wire-Systemkomponenten. Die zugrundeliegende Rechnerarchitektur ist ein verteiltes System, das je nach Fahrzeugtyp aus 20 – 80 Steuergeräteknoten besteht. Die Knoten sind mit bis zu vier verschiedenen Bussystemen ver...