F2008-05-099
EE-IT Integration for Engineering - The Challenge for Global Commercial Vehicles Design
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EE-IT integration for engineering - the challenge for global Commercial Vehicles design
Daberkow, A.; Font, A.; Nast, V.
Today, Electrics and Electronics (EE) is a key success factor for Automotive Engineering and Innovation. Rising complexity and warranty costs for EE issues shows that a proper management of EE engineering in the early development phase is mandatory. Consequently, IT for Engineering must sustainable support guide all EE engineering processes seamlessly.
While IT systems and data standardisation for Mechanical Engineering is proven in most application fields like unique CAD system availablity in an OEM engineering environment or standard CAD data quality committments, the IT system standardisation for Automotive Engineering needs further improvement urgently.
In this paper, an new integrated EE-IT platform for commercial vehicles engineering is presented. This EE-IT platform first takes into account that a proper component requirement management is mandatory, see figure (1).
Figure 1 EE-IT landscape
Following EE Requirement management, IT systems must cover the core EE engineering fields EE Mechanics, Electrics and Electronics/Software. It will be shown which core data must be supplied at the interfaces between the different steps in the EE process chain. For practical commercial vehicle application examples, the impacts of commercial vehicle variation control on EE-IT platform and Engineering IT system design are shown. For electrical engineering, different IT system strategies are introduced, see figure (2). The impact of different IT strategies on worldwide data availability, electrical component supplier integration and global reuse of electrical component or design results between business partners are explained.
Figure (2) Engineering applications for Electrics
Finally, any decision for a suitable EE-IT system strategy must be accompanied by cost-benefit assessments. For many OEM´s, powerful database systems are already available for the global data access in Mechanical Engineering. Technical , organisational and financial aspects for an EE-IT strategy deployment and an IT system decision are outlined in detail.
References:
Daberkow, A.; Font, A.; Nast, V.: Global E/E Integration for development Trucks. EngineeringDataManagement Forum - Integration for Cooperation. Stuttgart, 2007
Daberkow, A.; Font, A.: Integrated Electrical Engineering - IT requirements from a commercial Vehicles Manufacturer. Mentor Graphics User Conference, Frankfurt, 2006
Daberkow, A.; Font, A.; Nast, V.: E/E - IT Reengineering Initiatve for Commercial Vehicles Deveopment. EngineeringDataManagement Forum - Managing Complexity. Stuttgart, 2005
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