Powering Automotive Engineering with Engineering Lifecycle Management

PCQuest, in association with Trident and IBM, held a live webinar on the theme of "Empower your Engineering by IBM Software Solutions” to give automotive software developers and system engineers a guided tour on automotive software design and development.

The live webinar was well-attended and participants got detailed information on the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) from Trident and how it can help in managing the complexity of automotive software development and improve the delivery.

Sunil Rajguru, Editor, PCQuest, said how connectivity is empowering the automotive industry to develop and add new apps and services and how software is playing an increasingly important role in defining those consumer’s experiences.

Auto Industry is a multi-disciplinary industry, where mechanical, electrical, and software go hand in hand to build a complex system. But the industry’s reliance on software is increasing day by day for critical vehicle functions. Safety regulations and consumer demand for performance and convenience have led to exponential spike in automotive software complexity as well.

The lines of software codes written for an average luxury car often exceed that of a fighter jet and as humans write those codes, there is significant room for errors as well. In fact, a growing number of vehicles are getting recalled for software glitches nowadays.

Suneel Santharam, Sr. Client Specialist, IBM India said, “The increasing complexity has added many challenges for automotive engineering such as the need for visibility across the entire project, agility in development, collaboration between OEM and supplier, innovation, scalability, etc. One has to keep an eye on quality, regulatory compliances, safety and security also. The heterogenous tool landscape poses another challenge.”

As the complexity of product design increases, the reliance on modern engineering and development processes becomes increasingly crucial.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is a comprehensive solution for software or systems development and good for maintaining cross-engineering consistency also. This solution is designed for requirements analysts, developers, systems engineers, and testers.

Rajneesh Bhagat, Operations Head, Trident Information Systems said how the company is helping prominent govt entities and public sector with IBM ELM solution.

Vivek Buzruk, Sr. Architect, Trident Information Systems explained how Trident helps in high performance deployment, value-driven incremental adoption, and measured management and optimization and how it can help software practitioners in reducing their unplanned work and overheads and improve productivity.

“We first understand the customer goals and constraints, analyze current practices, tool usage, integration requirements and pain points and then identify and prioritize required ELM capabilities, architect tool configuration and usage model implementation. We continuously improve existing ELM practices and optimize software release using local and global configurations driven collaboration,” said he.