Engineering Process Day 2019

Wie viele andere Unternehmen auch, ist CLAAS als einer der führenden Hersteller für Landmaschinen ebenfalls mit dem digitalen Wandel konfrontiert. Als eine der Antworten darauf wurde ein Ideen- und Innovationszentrum für digitale Prozesse und Vorgehensweisen ins Leben gerufen, das CLAAS Greenhouse. Zwei Jahre nach Beginn der Aktivitäten erfolgt ein erstes Resümee und ein Ausblick nach vorne.

Die Einführung eines Simulationsdatenmanagement-Systems (kurz: SDM) ist ein wesentlicher Baustein der Digitalen Transformation bei Brose. Neben dem SDM-Beitrag zu einem durchgängig digitalisierten Produktentstehungsprozess werden der methodische Ansatz von der Anforderungserhebung bis zur Lieferantenauswahl sowie die Projektphasen auf dem Weg zur Einführung der SDM-Software vorgestellt.

Schindler Elevator has recognized the benefits of Model-based Engineering and actively drives its introduction in the development process and beyond. Mainly two drivers are responsible for this strategy:

quality assurance in the face of an immense number of variants and efficient development in terms of time-to-market, cost and reliability in the face of a competitive environment.

By introducing MBE at Schindler a new way of working has been addressed in order to focus on Systems Thinking and the overall Elevator System first and not to build an Elevator bottom up from selected and tested components. Hence, Model-based System Design, Simulation and Integration is key. While today, the focus is mostly on components and on facilitating developments tests and assuring appropriateness of concepts, MBE unfolds its full potential when it encompassed the whole product life cycle from market analysis to phase-out.

The automotive megatrends (electrification, automation, connectivity) and new mobility concepts lead to an increasing interaction of mechatronic systems with their surrounding systems and thus to an increased interaction with the entire vehicle.

For the Robert Bosch GmbH as an automotive supplier, it is essential to respond to these challenges appropriately to be able to offer competitive products and services and to be an attractive development partner on system level.

In order to accomplish that task, there are two methodical key elements for efficient and effective cross-domain systems engineering. An MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering)-framework to handle the increased complexity, reduce the risk of improper/missing product features, and to minimize the integration effort is developed/used. A cross-domain vehicle simulator for fast and robust assessment of solution variants and elicitation of requirements addressing time to market and development costs. All these methodologies are used, validated and improved in several internal projects, e.g. in the “Rolling Chassis” project. In this platform, it is possible to optimize the interactions of the xDomain subsystems and to develop new xDomain functionalities like thermal management, predictive functions, and optimized braking.