Automotive

Automotive Working Group

Working Group Purpose & Mission

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).

Application Domains

TechOps Domain

231

Members

2014

Established

Co-Chairs

Gary Rushton (General Motors)

Alain Dauron (AFIS, retired from Renault)

Inquiries

[email protected]

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.

Outcomes

Deliverables and associated action plans of the group can stem from the list of topics defined and maintained by the group, or pop-up as new proposals from several group members, or from INCOSE. Some of these topics can be the object of roundtables, panels, webinars or specific working meetings to be programmed during the international workshop or symposium, or sometimes regional events, sometimes with other international associations (SAE, IEEE, Autosar, ...). Here are several actions and outputs :

Automotive SE Vision 2025 (INCOSE store here)
SE Application in Automotive sector, inside INCOSE SE Handbook v5 (INCOSE store here, in Chapter 4.4)
OMG (Object Management Group) UML Profile for safety and reliability analysis
SAE WCX 2018 : Designing with a Systems Engineering Approach (Roundtable)
Fostering of Domain Specific Reference Architecture for Intelligent Transportation Systems (common work with Transportation, Infrastructure, System of Systems Working Groups, for instance during EMEA WS in 2019)
MBSE "models in the supply chain" (State machines interoperability, Modularity, SysMLv2, ...: Capstone project with George Mason University : see : video and IS21 paper)
INCOSE and AWG presentation in 13th AUTOSAR OPEN CONFERENCE (May 2022)
Current workstreams will soon deliver:
- Systems Engineering, Safety and Cyber Security (SESCI)
- SE4SDV (SE for Software Defined Vehicle)
- SE&SOA (SE and software Services / Micro Services)
- Calibrations
- Build / refine Automotive stories @ System-Software Interface
- Lost in mobility transformation

IW25: International Workshop in Seville (February 2025)

A rich program ! (you can also consult it on the IW2025 web site program pages here, or on the event app.)

Sunday, February 2nd

13:30 – 14:30 General Meeting
We'll present in particular the progress of its 6 Wokrstreams, out of which 5 started in 2024:
- Systems Engineering Safety Cybersecurity Integration (SESCI)
- Lost in Mobility Transformation
- SE4SDV (SE for Software Defined Vehicle)
- SE&SOA (SE and software Service/MicroService Oriented Architecture)
- Systems and Software Interface Stories (in collaboration with SaSI WG)
- Calibrations
We shall also present the 2025 program and the other AWG slots during the Workshop.

14:30 – 15:30 the EV example in the MILICARE AFIS project
We shall host a special presentation from AFIS (Yann Chazal), followed by discussions, about the “Electric Vehicle case” addressed in the recent AFIS Project “MILICARE” (like “take CARE of the MILIeu”). It includes an analysis of the growing controversy around EVs, even in Europe, and an enriched SE approach most suited to this case, where both the “product” (eg vehicle) and the “milieu” (daily mobility basin) are both intertwined and experience a co-evolution.

17:00 – 18:00 Extra slot for discussion on several 2025 topics
Given that the 1:30pm General Assembly is only one hour long and addresses our 6 workstreams, this slot will give us additional time to discuss possible new workstreams or other activities:
- refresh the automotive paragraph of the SE Handbook
- contribute to the DE Guide (proposal of the DEIX WG)
- which INCOSE workproducts associated to workstreams ?
- which milestones to prepare submissions (IS26) for Presentations, Papers, … ?
- other …

Monday, February 3rd

13:30 – 14:30 STPA & Cyber including Automotive Standards
We shall have a presentation from David Hetherington about STPA, followed by a discussion. David will address in particular the workflow to ISO26262 and to ISO/SAE 21434, the Automotive standards about Functional Safety and Cyber-Security.

14:30 – 15:30 JCOSE Automotive Working Group
We shall exchange about the newly launched Japanese initiative, about the way of working between AWG and this national WG, about several topics of shared interest, in particular:
- How to « sell SE ROI » in Automotive domain (incl. “best practices”)
- Main SE Skills for Automotive domain
- existing AWG workstreams (SESCI, SE4SDV, …)
Depending on attendance, we can also address similar scenarios for other countries or regions

16:00 – 17:00 Automotive & Systems And Software Interface WGs common meeting
This slot will be shared between the two Working Groups (many SaSI in the Automotive context !)
Even if the agenda is still in preparation, we will address the two new workstreams started in AWG:
- SE for SDV (Software Defined Vehicle)
- SE and SOA (Service / MicroService Oriented Architecture)

Planned Activities

WILL BE UPDATED DURING/AFTER IW25

Twofold 2025 action plan :

Existing Workstreams progress :

Systems Engineering, Safety and Cyber Security (SESCI)
SE4SDV (SE for Software Defined Vehicle)
SE&SOA (SE and software Services / Micro Services)
Calibrations
Build / refine Automotive stories @ System-Software Interface
Lost in mobility transformation

Preparing other activities :

Planned Work Products