Joint electronics roadmap for improvements within the automotive worth chain

The automotive trade is going through vital technological challenges in creating new and modern options and companies. When defining their merchandise, car producers should anticipate future technical developments in microelectronic platforms, sensors, and semiconductor applied sciences. On the similar time, suppliers and semiconductor producers want early insights into the necessities for upcoming options and companies to have the ability to put money into know-how improvement with confidence.

As a part of the “GENIAL!” venture funded by the Federal Ministry of Training and Analysis (BMBF), eleven companions collaborated to develop ideas and strategies that assist firms within the automotive trade work collectively extra successfully and put together for the longer term. The venture particularly centered on optimizing the collaboration between automotive producers and their part and know-how suppliers to speed up innovation throughout the automotive worth chain.

The prototypical automotive microelectronics roadmap developed in GENIAL! gives a strategic framework for figuring out future market wants, use circumstances, system fashions, and technical necessities within the discipline of automotive microelectronics. This roadmap establishes a shared understanding of the microelectronics necessities of future extremely modern automobiles throughout all the worth chain. The outcomes allow all market members, in addition to analysis establishments and policymakers, to handle investments and analysis actions extra successfully. In flip, this facilitates the implementation of considerably shorter and extra dependable improvement processes, permitting new, modern automotive parts to be realized extra rapidly.

The venture was primarily based on a model-based system improvement method that makes use of the Techniques Modeling Language (SysML) as a modeling language, now built-in into SysML v2. This method is supported by the AGILA database and additional enhanced by the IRIS (Interactive Roadmapping of Revolutionary Techniques) software, each developed inside the venture. AGILA serves as a centralized database for capturing the important info and offering documentation, consistency checks, and model management.

The IRIS software allows collaborative modeling, exploration, planning, and analysis of resolution options. It additionally helps non-technical info, permitting issues resembling safety of provide, and allows visualizations for roadmapping. To encourage widespread adoption, the venture members will launch instruments resembling AGILA and IRIS as open-source options, making them accessible for anybody involved in creating and sustaining roadmaps.

The innovation modeling methodology “IMoG” (Innovation Modelling Grid) defines actions, roles, and course of fashions for the collaborative creation of roadmaps. This spans from the preliminary comparability of fashions in the issue and resolution area to the sensible utility of the AGILA and IRIS instruments. Documentation of the methodology, together with a number of coaching movies, is offered free of charge obtain.