Mission
To promote the application and advance the practice of Systems Engineering in the automotive industry, encompassing OEMs, suppliers and service providers in the private, commercial and industrial vehicle sectors.
Emphasis is put on the current needs and future challenges of the industry, covering issues related to product development (complexity, safety and security, diversity, reuse) as well as to business and organizational aspects (new business models, new services and smart or multimodal transportation systems).
Scope
From a global perspective, the Automotive Working Group addresses the challenges faced by the actors of the industry when trying to implement SE or improve their application of SE. Preliminary work conducted by the Automotive Interest Group identified a series of topics covering a large spectrum of automotive concerns. These topics were grouped into generic SE themes: organizational, SE processes, MBSE, architecture frameworks, safety and security, links with specialty domains and systems of systems. Since becoming the Automotive Working Group, several common areas of interest were identified: Requirements Development, System Complexity, MBSE, Function Safety, Cyber Security, and Product Line Engineering. In addition, several areas of collaboration were agreed to: Requirements Management and Development processes, MBSE methods, Tools interactions, SE Skills, University Curriculum and standards.
The products of the working group (deliverables, events, etc.) target the needs of the whole automotive industry supply chain, comprising the private, commercial and industrial vehicles sectors. They are intended to be valuable, useful products for both beginners and established SE practitioners.
Goals
Missions
- To broaden and improve the application of Systems Engineering to the vehicle development process by tailoring standard SE processes and known best practices to the needs and specificities of the industry.
- To build a common, shared Systems Engineering expertise and body of knowledge for their application by actors across the automotive industry.
Objectives
- To provide value-added services to our members through the production of quality deliverables, the organization of quality events and efficient administration of the group.
- To grow the number of members of the group up to a level of self-sustainment an increase the diversity of the leadership team by:
- Performing outreach actions
- Helping members learn from each other and from the experience of INCOSE experts
- Making sure that the needs of the members are covered by activity plans and are taken into account by INCOSE.
- To support INCOSE’s strategy to establish collaborations and partnerships with professional associations by initiating connections between the group and the different associations of the automotive industry.