Eleven partners worked together as part of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s (BMBF) “GENIAL!” project to create ideas and strategies that would help automotive companies better collaborate and get ready for the future.
In order to speed up innovation throughout the automotive value chain, the initiative was especially concerned with maximizing the cooperation between automakers and their suppliers of technology and components.
A strategic framework for determining future market demands, use cases, system models, and technological requirements in the automotive microelectronics industry is provided by the archetypal roadmap created in GENIAL!.
Throughout the whole value chain, this roadmap creates a common knowledge of the microelectronic needs of future, highly innovative vehicles. All market players, as well as academic institutions and policymakers, may better manage investments and research endeavors thanks to the findings.
This in turn makes it easier to adopt far shorter and more reliable development methods, which speeds up the realization of novel, cutting-edge automotive components.
The project’s foundation was a model-based approach to system development that makes use of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), which is now a part of SysML v2.
The AGILA database and the IRIS (Interactive Roadmapping of Innovative Systems) tool, both created as part of the project, assist this strategy. AGILA acts as a central database for gathering the necessary data and offering version control, documentation, and consistency tests.
Collaborative modeling, evaluation, planning, and assessment of potential solutions are made possible by the IRIS tool. Along with enabling roadmapping visuals, it also provides non-technical information, allowing for factors like supply security.
The project members will make tools like AGILA and IRIS available as open-source solutions so that everyone interested in developing and maintaining roadmaps can use them, promoting broad adoption.
For the cooperative development of roadmaps, the innovation modeling approach “IMoG” (Innovation Modelling Grid) establishes roles, activities, and process models.
This includes everything from the first model comparison in the problem and solution space to the actual use of the AGILA and IRIS tools. The methodology’s documentation and a number of training videos can be downloaded for free.
The Goal Behind Developing the Framework, GENIAL
Significant technological obstacles stand in the way of the automotive industry’s ability to create innovative and cutting-edge products and services.
Future technological developments in semiconductor, sensor, and microelectronic platform technologies must be considered by automakers when designing new vehicles.
In order to confidently invest in technological development, suppliers and semiconductor manufacturers require early insights into the demand for future features and services.
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