News
2011-06-13: Vector Consulting Roadshow and Congress in USA: Safety, Lean/Agile, PLM/ALM (USA, 3.-6. Oct. 2011)Roadshow in USA
Vector will show its consulting solutions and experiences in the USA. We will present at different events during the timeframe of 03.-06. October in Detroit and New York. Topics will cover efficiency, functional safety, ALM/PLM and engineering methods and tools. The mode will be a "Roadshow" with visits to companies and open presentations to discuss needs, solutions and our own benchmarks. This Roadshow is for free and sponsored by Vector America.
A highlight will be our presentation on functional safety experiences at the Vector America Congress on 05. October. With the increasing complexity of automotive systems and the related increasing use of software in them, new approaches are needed to ensure safety. Failures are increasingly due to design errors and to dysfunctional interactions among components rather than component failure. Due to the wide range of potential impacts, safety must be engineered and built into the design from the beginning. It is not possible to effectively add safety devices onto a finished design. This presentation provides an overview on the current introduction of ISO 26262 to the automotive industry and highlights our experiences in changing engineering processes towards requirements of this standard. We will look to systems engineering, life-cycle processes, and safety culture as the three prerequisites to successfully and sustainably implementing functional safety.
Christof Ebert, Managing Director of Vector Consulting Services, a renowned international consultant and industry expert, will have presentations on several hot topics:
- Electronics engineering efficiency and ways how to improve it. We will dive into lean and agile techniques and look into how to improve your own development.·
- Functional safety and ways how to implement it. A critical topic due to the forthcoming publication of the automotive safety standard ISO 26262.
- Requirements Engineering tools, methods and emerging trends. We will look to tools, elicitation techniques, certification and to the emerging ReqIF standard.
- Product life-cycle management (PLM) solutions and how make the change a success. We will present our experiences with introducing PLM/ALM solutions.
- Global engineering, supplier management and collaboration in distributes teams.
You are very welcome to join our events. We will arrange those roadshow events according to needs at different places. Just contact us with your specific inquiries and questions. So far we have scheduled as follows:
- 03. Oct. in New York and East
- 04.-06. Oct. in Detroit, Northern and Midwest
Contact us here so we can arrange a meeting at your convenience.
Christof Ebert is managing director at Vector Consulting Services. He is helping clients worldwide to improve product development and product strategy and to manage organizational changes. Prior to that, he held engineering and management positions for fifteen years in telecommunication, IT, transportation and aerospace. An internationally renowned keynote speaker, SEI certified CMMI Instructor, area editor of the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge and steering chair of the IEEE conference series on Global Software Engineering, Dr. Ebert teaches at the University of Stuttgart and authored several books including his most recent book “Global Software Engineering” published by Wiley/IEEE in 2011. Contact him at christof.ebert@vector.com