Mastering the future: Agile model-based system design for BMW’s electrified next generation platform

Abstract

Future mobility systems are becoming more complex. Existing processes for hardware component oriented development reach a limit for highly integrated systems. High quality cannot be efficiently ensured any longer at shorter development cycles and reduced budgets.

This article shows an approach to master system design and system verification with two approaches taken over from software industries: digital and agile transformation. Digital transformation of systems engineering based on model based specification with SysML helps to master complexity and agile transformation based on cross-functional teams with domain engineers and computer scientists contributes to sustainable consistency and a test first approach.

As a consequence, testing efforts are frontloaded and quality increases due to early stakeholder involvement. Furthermore, this approach supports the know-how exchange between the specialists of different domains at expert level. This enables an efficient high performance large scale development under series project conditions.