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With complexity and challenges in quality, cost and time to market, companies are looking for better ways to deliver high quality and reliability. The Automotive industry has some very specific challenges relating to quality, process maturity (SPICE, CMMI) and data exchange between OEMs and suppliers. An important characteristic is the need for close cooperation between OEMs and suppliers.

Critical Business Issues (in priority order):

  • Lack of product and process quality - the most critical issue
  • Inability to control or decrease cost - more important than ever since the economy has seriously affected profitability
  • Difficulty in introducing new technologies (hybrid, fuel cell, safety tech) quickly into products being brought to market
  • Uncoordinated engineering teams (HW, SW, Mechanics) and lack of cooperation between OEMs and suppliers
  • Increasing complexity and the number of product variants increases costs and development
  • SPICE or CMMI appraisals are difficult to achieve. Safety relevant devices must follow the strict regulations of IEC 61508 and in future the new ISO 26262

 

The MKS Integrity solution for Automotive can:

  • Improve product and process quality by process-controlled development, full traceability and a single source of truth across all process domains and engineering disciplines
  • Eliminate software related maintenance costs and recalls through process driven Test and Release Management
  • Increase productivity and profitability through process automation, advanced reuse capabilities and full control of software complexity, which stops redundant work and limits rework
  • Drive innovation with cross-discipline application lifecycle management that breaks down silos
  • Connect OEMs and suppliers with a superior data exchange and integration platform supporting ReqIF and AUTOSAR standards
  • Reduce complexity and manage product variants by full V-cycle reuse of features, requirements, design, code, and tests.
  • Manage many process areas described in CMMI and SPICE.
  • Manage product development processes on System, Hardware and Software level as defined in ISO 26262 (CD)

 

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