First Guidelines for Vehicle Development Model Exchange published

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Whereas parliaments still debate on realizing collaboration between Europe and Japan, prostep ivip recently published the first part of the SmartSE Domain-specific Systems Engineering Application Architectures: Plant Modeling I/F Guidelines for Vehicle Development Model Exchange (download via this link or via prostep ivip Media Library).

It is the result of the collaboration between prostep ivip, the French Institute SystemX and the members of METI‘s MBD Group (Aisin, Azapa, Denso, Hitachi, Honda, Jatco, Mazda, Mitsubishi Electric, Nissan, Panasonic and Toyota), envisioned in their Collaboration Agreement signed in September this year.

About the Guideline itself

The Smart Systems Engineering (SmartSE) project within the prostep ivip Association aims to foster the industrial use of FMI by defining use cases and a process description to ensure a smooth process integration between the engineering disciplines and the collaborating partners.

In order to be able to react fast regarding the fast changing state-of-the-art and domain-specific demands, a new series of documents was set up. By this, in addition to the prostep ivip SmartSE Recommendation, domain-specific guidelines for e.g. powertrain, virtual ECUs etc. can be internationally provided in a fast-track process. This series is called “Domain-specific Systems Engineering Application Architectures”.

The now published guideline can be applied within powertrain development. It aims at expansion of the model distribution, the improvement of quality of reconciliation using models, and the development of human resources who can accomplish model based development in the automotive industry through consolidating model interfaces as a de facto standard at different layers including auto manufacturers, suppliers, and auto industry cluster. Furthermore, the vehicle model which conforms to this guideline is offered to promote this purpose.

Thus, this document

  • is applied to systems, which own energy.
  • defines the direction of energy flow.
  • defines physical signals between subsystems and their directions and unit.
  • provides a vehicle model that conforms to itself.

Thus, it complements the SmartSE Recommendation PSI 11 V2 and provides domain-specific practical application examples.

by Steven Vettermann

prostep ivip´s activities: 100% conform to Antitrust Law

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You are most likely having a discussion on antitrust as well in your organization or feeling its effects. You are though still willing to exchange with others, right..?

During the antitrust discussion in summer 2017, the prostep ivip Association has decided to engage a cartel lawyer and, in so doing, examine its activities and projects. The result of this investigation is a great opportunity for us to highlight that activities of the Association are  conform to antitrust law, and even fostering competition according to “EU guidelines on the applicability of Article 101” (cf. chapter 7).

The activities carried out by the prostep ivip Association improve the ability to communication and increase transparency. This in turn makes it easier for the individual companies to involve different market players, thus promoting competition, for example in the context of R&D. On the other hand, no influence is exerted on which products are developed and launched onto the market and which are not, or on how the products and services are designed.

prostep ivip develops standards to improve communication and openness. The association is active in a pre-competitive area, is neutral and provides access to standardization to all its members as well as to the engineering and manufacturing communities.

See also the declaration of prostep ivip e.V. on Antitrust Law.

Demonstrating the Digital Twin

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Synced Factory Twins Demonstrator at Symposium

After intense work in prostep ivip’s project Synced Factory Twins (SFT), representatives of Business Operation Systems and Delta Management presented the elaborated demonstrator.
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JT: Digital Transformation Enabler

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Second prostep ivip jt day

What a day! 180 experts and decision makers followed prostep ivip’s invitation, received information about status and strategies with regard to the industrial application of JT and where deeply impressed.

Right at the opening of Rudolf Dotzauer from Continental and Dr. Sebastian Handschuh from Daimler, the two chairs of the prostep ivip / VDA projects JT Workflow Forum, JT Implementor Forum and JT Benchmark, it was clear to everybody, that this event will have signaling character. JT is in productive application. Far more than 300 million JT-Files are managed in productive applications. And in collaborative scenarios approximately 75% of all 3D-data could be exchanged via JT. But that’s not the end of the road, that’s just the beginning, as the three keynote speakers stressed.

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Vehicle Electrics is a Key Player!

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prostep ivip vec day

Today, for the fifth time the ProSTEP iViP / VDA VEC Day took place as an integral part of the annual Bordnetz-Kongress. Up to 70 participants listened to presentations from industry and IT representatives and realized that the new mobility concepts and the increase in products complexity require a shift toward model-driven vehicle electrics engineering, smart collaboration, information flows and data coherency.

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Ready for Openness

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Survey: Industrial Readiness for Openness

At the prostep ivip symposium 2016 Helmut Schütt, CIO Commercial Vehicles Trucks Buses & Vans at Daimler, made it pretty clear:

No one can live shut off from the rest of the world any more. Openness is crucial. We expect genuinely open systems because we must be able to integrate components from different vendors on the basis of open standards.

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