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Simulation and HIL Testing for Rapid Development
Simulation and HIL Testing for Rapid Development Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing is a necessary tool for any automotive manufacturer or supplier in this era of software-defined vehicles. One reason for this is that, compared to the software in vehicles of even a generation or two ago, a modern vehicle presents challenges because of its software’s complexity, the quantity of its software, and the interconnected nature of its systems. The number of embedded controllers, and the quantity of the code installed on them, are both increasing every year. Powerplants of every kind, their power transmitting components, and sensors to monitor events inside and outside of the vehicle, are all connected to embedded controllers. Any time the software is updated on any of these, a new round of tests must be initiated.
Topics: Test Systems Blog Posts Automotive Testing HIL
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AUTOSAR Acceptance Tests
AUTOSAR Acceptance Tests Acceptance tests, as a quality control mechanism, are found in many facets of manufacturing. Within the field of automotive software development, acceptance tests are used to ensure quality of work for code built both with, and without, the AUTomotive Open Standard ARchitecture (AUTOSAR) framework we are currently examining. Acceptance testing is a universal mechanism to measure whether a product meets the requirements of a feature’s specification or a particular stipulation in a contract, such as between a supplier and an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM).
Topics: AUTOSAR Blog Posts
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AUTOSAR Feasibility and Producibility
AUTOSAR feasibility and producibility Feasibility and producibility in AUTomotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR) development refer to analyses performed by engineers or developers. The goal is to determine whether a particular project can or should be pursued and whether AUTOSAR is the toolset and framework it should be developed within. These studies are often multi-phase and often seek to answer questions about the technical feasibility of a proposed project and the estimated risks and cost-to-benefit ratio that the project entails.
Topics: AUTOSAR Blog Posts
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AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture (AUTOSAR) Standardized Interfaces
AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture (AUTOSAR) Standardized Interfaces Standardized AUTOSAR interfaces are one of three types of interfaces between individual modularized software components that are utilized in the AUTOSAR programming platform. This type of interface is predefined by the AUTOSAR standard. The differences between all three of the separate and specific types of software interfaces determine how they are used when programming AUTOSAR-compliant electronic control units (ECUs).
Topics: AUTOSAR Blog Posts
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AUTOSAR Modularity and Configurability
AUTOSAR Modularity and Configurability One very human mechanism for managing a complex issue is to divide and subdivide it into manageable components. These smaller and simpler parts can then be addressed individually or by teams, allowing for the possible division of labor while also reducing the difficulty of the entire project.
Topics: AUTOSAR Blog Posts
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Implementing AUTOSAR and Functional Safety
Implementing AUTOSAR and Functional Safety
Topics: Functional Safety AUTOSAR Blog Posts
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AUTOSAR From the Automotive Industry’s Perspective
AUTOSAR from the automotive industry’s perspective Feature innovation in automotive product development started drifting away from hardware and toward software in the 1980s. The change was slow in the beginning, but has steadily accelerated, especially since the early 2000s. From the 2010s and into the 2020s, software-defined features have proliferated in vehicles at rates never seen before. There is a great degree of diversity within vehicle product lines due to the customization afforded by software. Advanced Driver Assist (ADAS) features and autonomous Level 2, 2+, and 3 capabilities have grown rapidly and are available on an increasing number of vehicles. Vehicles are also coming to exist more within the Internet of Things (IoT), allowing connectivity with home, public, and certain private infrastructures. These innovations all drive the rapidly increasing software integration aboard a modern vehicle.
Topics: AUTOSAR Blog Posts
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How to Transform Your Engineering Organization with LHP
How to Transform Your Engineering Organization with LHP LHP Engineering Solutions was founded in 2001. Our mission is to provide our customers in the greater transportation industry with the means to create a safer, smarter world. We work to enable safer transportation technologies by implementing the LHP Functional Safety Ecosystem, and by guiding our clients through the process of understanding the requirements for standards and regulations relating to software-defined and autonomous vehicle technology. Our goal is to help all our clients create an efficient infrastructure around safety, centralization, and automation. We work to engage our partners in their process design and help them create technology that is safe and efficient.
Topics: Functional Safety Ecosystem Blog Posts
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The Entwined Futures of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Vehicles
The Entwined Futures of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Vehicles In every era, automotive manufacturing has always had some degree of innovation. Automotive design was born in innovation, the idea of taking the horse off the cart, and building a machine capable of going farther and faster than had ever been possible before. Every generation has brought some new improvement to the design and manufacture of automobiles since then, but we’re currently in an era of great upheaval in the automotive world.
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Blog Posts Artificial Intelligence
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Integrating Today’s Top Automotive Technology
Integrating today’s top automotive technology Automotive researchers and engineers are constantly developing and optimizing the most impactful technologies for the vehicles of tomorrow. At labs and test centers around the globe, Research and Development (R&D) teams are focused on improving the way future iterations of vehicles will perform to standards of safety, energy efficiency and emissions reduction, and cybersecurity. They’re mapping the next steps in fields like artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicle technologies, finding ways to integrate today’s top automotive technology, power tomorrow’s innovations, and move forward competitively in this new landscape.
Topics: Functional Safety ADAS Blog Posts
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Increasing Efficiency in Hybrid Electric Vehicles by Reducing Switching Losses in Inverters
Increasing Efficiency in Hybrid Electric Vehicles by Reducing Switching Losses in Inverters In the ongoing effort to increase overall powertrain efficiency in electric vehicles (EVs), designers and engineers begin by identifying the areas of greatest inefficiency. Improving the efficiency of areas with these "power leaks" will bring the greatest gains. While important improvements have been made in recent months, the motor in general, and power inverter switching inefficiencies in particular, have been a relatively large source of loss in EVs for years.
Topics: Electric Vehicle Test Systems Blog Posts
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What Are the Automotive Cybersecurity Processes?
What are the automotive cybersecurity processes? The connected ecosystem of software-defined vehicles continues to expand and mature at a rapid pace. Automotive OEMs, Tier 1 and 2 suppliers, and others with roles in smart mobility are devoting considerable resources and effort to developing and refining the parts, components, connected vehicles, and systems, that make up this realm. The rate of expansion is almost exponential. As this domain grows, the demand for solutions rises, and the risk of cyberattacks against this realm increases. What are the automotive cybersecurity processes used to help protect these vehicles and the systems in their supporting infrastructure?
Topics: Cybersecurity
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Integrated Solutions to Align Product Development and Safety Implementation
Integrated Solutions to Align Product Development and Safety Implementation The functional safety standard, ISO 26262:2018, can be as demanding as it is rewarding. Implementing functional safety requires an organization to commit time, resources, and brainpower to the task. Certifying compliance to the standard requires a thoughtful approach, even for newer companies. More established organizations, which have been doing business for longer, must also find intelligent ways to integrate new product development solutions in order to align with the implementation of functional safety practices.
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Software Verification and Validation for Automotive Functional Safety
Software Verification and Validation for Automotive Functional Safety Software verification and validation (V&V) has existed for a long time. When software controls were introduced into industrial settings, people quickly realized that they would need to ensure that those programs would perform to their specifications. Industrial standards for performance monitoring evolved from that need. However, in the modern automotive manufacturing environment, and most especially as Software-Defined Vehicles come to the forefront, software verification, and validation processes for automotive functional safety become far more important. These processes are vital to functional safety compliance.
Topics: Functional Safety Blog Posts Software-Defined Vehicle
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How to Holistically Address Functional Safety
How to Holistically Address Functional Safety The LHP Functional Safety Ecosystem in the Age of the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) At LHP Engineering Solutions, we often receive requests from clients or partner companies to help with one individual technology or another, as they make their way through the ISO 26262certification process. Working on technologies piecemeal in this way can lead to rework whether due to revisions in one component or another, or because the organization hasn’t considered every component part and how all the components work together. The LHP Functional Safety Ecosystem guides clients and partner firms as they holistically address functional safety. We provide the client with expertise in 6 core component areas. This can contribute to significant savings because the need for costly rework is reduced.
Topics: Functional Safety Functional Safety Ecosystem Blog Posts
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Why is Safety at the Core of Software-Defined Vehicles?
Why is Safety at the Core of Software-Defined Vehicles? Creating technology can be a complicated and time-consuming process. At LHP Engineering Solutions, we provide just that: solutions. We are a services and technology integrator with the skill and expertise to solve your functional safety issues. One way we provide our clients with solutions is to introduce them to our advisory management model, the Functional Safety Ecosystem, a six-part integrated model with the power to move your company beyond compliance. Safety is at the core of software-defined vehicles, but true functional safety demands more than a simple mechanistic attempt to fulfill compliance requirements; LHP’s Ecosystem applies a more powerful holistic approach.
Topics: ISO 26262 Functional Safety Ecosystem Blog Posts Software-Defined Vehicle
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Top 5 Automotive Cybersecurity Questions Every Executive Needs to Know
Top 5 Automotive Cybersecurity Questions Every Executive Needs to Know Kelly Stephenson, Solutions Architect for LHP, provides product and engineering leaders with insights into the complex realm of cybersecurity and its importance in achieving product safety and success in any manufacturing environment.
Topics: Blog Posts Cybersecurity
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How to Maximize Your Investment in Cybersecurity
Maximizing your investment in cybersecurity ISO/SAE 21434:2021 “Road Vehicles — Cybersecurity Engineering” is the standard that addresses the cybersecurity perspective in the engineering of electrical and electronic (E/E) systems within road vehicles. Fulfilling these requirements can necessitate a significant investment, but doing so can also offer even greater rewards in the form of increased safety, the reduction of risk, and the safeguarding of an organization’s reputation and brand.
Topics: Blog Posts Cybersecurity
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The Right Level of Attention for Automotive Cybersecurity
What Is the right level of attention for automotive cybersecurity? When organizations start down the path of integrating cybersecurity into their processes and culture, this is a direct and very important question for them to ask. And the short and cryptic answer is, “it depends”.
Topics: Blog Posts Cybersecurity
11 min read
An Introduction to Project-Dependent Safety Management
An Introduction to Project-Dependent Safety Management Safety is one of the primary influences in the development of modern road vehicles. This influence is defined by a term with a specific meaning, functional safety. Simply put, functional safety can be thought of as a series of systems that protect the user from the technology, and the technology from the user, but its primary purpose is to protect the user from harm. But how do you know when you have accomplished it? To achieve functional safety in an efficient and logical manner that can be measured and evaluated with consistency, international standards are utilized to guide and manage this work. However, functional safety activities are not one-size-fits-all. Each vehicle design is unique and brings to the table different concepts, technologies, capabilities, and challenges. The same can also be said for the organizations themselves that contribute to the design and manufacture of the vehicle.
Topics: Functional Safety
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What is Tailoring in Functional Safety?
What is Tailoring in Functional Safety? The international standard that governs functional safety is ISO 26262-2:2018, “Road vehicles — Functional safety — Part 2: Management of functional safety”. It is a comprehensive and detailed document that applies to all of the available activities of safety-related systems during the safety lifecycle. But not every system is so broad and complex that every part of ISO 26262 can be applied to it. Some organizations build products that are subsystems intended to be installed as part of a greater system, and what they create is less complex than the systems their products are going into. Or some systems are simply less complex than others and do not contain all of the features and capabilities that the standard addresses. How does an organization comply with a standard, when the standard itself is broader in complexity and scope than the product that the organization is manufacturing? The answer lies in customizing the safety requirements to the needs of the system, using a process called tailoring. Much like a clothing tailor can trim and customize an article of clothing to provide the best fit for the unique needs of a specific person, the list of processes prescribed by ISO 26262 can be customized to meet the unique needs of a given system. But the role of tailoring in functional safety must be fulfilled according to strict rules. There is more than one way that tailoring can be applied, and the impacts can be far-reaching. Table of Contents What is the definition of tailoring? The scope of tailoring How do you determine if any tailoring is needed? When is tailoring allowed? Postscript: Defining the tailoring within the Safety Plan
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262 ASIL
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What Are the Different Electric Vehicle Standards?
What Are the Different Electric Vehicle Standards? Introduction Electrification is a process that has been around for decades. The history of the electric vehicle (EV) extends as far back as the 19th Century, and the world has witnessed different waves of growth since then. The current growth in EV ownership suggests a new direction in modern transportation, one the industry hopes to take to the next level. OEMs have been introducing new electrified vehicles in their inventory, emphasizing that electrification is a prominent focus for the industry and will continue to be as the trend continues to grow. Governments and subject matter experts (SMEs) collaborate to develop electric vehicle standards, ensuring a dependable EV market with reduced risks and hazards. EV standards will be one of many determining factors that help companies prioritize safety and guarantee the reliability of their products. The industry must maintain compliance with EV standards—especially as these EV systems become more complex—to advance modern transportation safely. Table of Contents How Are Electric Vehicle Standards Categorized? How Will Electric Vehicle Standards Impact the EV Market? What opportunities and challenges will the industry face? Summary
Topics: Electric Vehicle
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What is Automated Test Equipment?
What is Automated Test Equipment? Introduction The automotive industry continues to evolve exponentially, but what does not change is that those developing new automotive products need to prioritize safety and reliability. The many processes within testing these products will remain essential to ensure that this era of vehicles mitigates drivers’ exposure to danger and system failures. As vehicles’ electrical and electronic systems become more complex, they will require continuous verification and validation (V&V)—which incorporates testing. V&V testing at the appropriate times and levels allows engineers to evaluate whether or not the component, subsystems, systems, and vehicles meet the function, performance, and safety requirements. There is specific automated test equipment utilized to perform this testing.\ Table of Contents What are automated test systems? How Does Automated Testing Work? How Beneficial is Automated Test Equipment? Summary
Topics: ATE
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What is HIL Testing?
What is HIL Testing? Introduction The phrase Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) refers to the process of testing a vehicle’s hardware by integrating it into a software environment and simulating different real-life scenarios for the hardware to react to. A vehicle’s components and subsystems interact with each other cooperatively, so the functionality of smaller components will affect how the entire vehicle operates entirely. Table of Contents How Does the HIL Testing Process Work? Who is involved in this process? Why is HIL Testing Important? Summary
Topics: HIL
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What is the Future of Autonomous Vehicles?
What is the Future of Autonomous Vehicles? Today’s vehicles are complex machines with intricate technology and advanced capabilities. As the industry continues to grow the electrification of vehicles, the goal will be to advance driver systems and software so that they achieve the requirements for product safety. The complete shift into a mass implementation of electric vehicles (EVs) forms the question of what the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs) looks like. Currently, an autonomous future would consist of augmenting the autonomous features already integrated into vehicles to the point of operating without human intervention. These autonomous features already provide different levels of driver assistance, which provides reassurance that vehicles will perform safely. Table of Contents What is Autonomy? How are Autonomous Vehicles Defined? How Does Functional Safety Impact the Future of Autonomous Vehicles? What are the Key Considerations for Reaching an Autonomous Future? Summary
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle
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What is Competence Management in Functional Safety?
What is Competence Management? The term Competence Management is derived from the broader world of business at large. In the realm of automotive functional safety, there are many terms and methodologies that are shared with or are similar to, terms and processes that are utilized across all types of manufacturing and business. However, within the automotive realm, these terms are naturally scoped to the requirements of the automotive business. Not only do many of these methodologies govern how a product is developed and tested, but they can also apply to the selection, management, and skills development, of the people performing the work.
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What is Electric Vehicle Telematics?
Introduction While glancing into the future of automotive and identifying the potential opportunities, challenges, success, and failure the industry should encounter while shifting toward electrification, electric vehicle (EV) telematics will continue to be a vital process. The rise in data dependency within automotive is a widely acknowledged notion, but it is still so critical that it is worth reemphasizing again—especially as the industry navigates through the early stages of a new, electrified era. Sophisticated vehicles can achieve and maintain efficient operability while adhering to safety performance standards because of the telematics and analytics involved in the product development process. The importance of pulling information through telematics will grow in parallel to the complexity of EV development both now and in the future because telematics may become more complex as more data is accessed and utilized. The EV market is becoming a driving force regarding where the industry is shifting toward, meaning that telematics, along with a meticulous analytics plan, will add valuable context to the information collected in products’ software and integrated technology systems. To maintain the development of safety-optimized vehicles with advanced technology, telematics is a needed asset.
Topics: Electric Vehicle
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How Do You Build a Safety Culture for Your Organization?
What is a safety culture? A safety culture is the compilation of ideologies, mindsets, perceptions, knowledge, attitudes, and values, that employees share related to the risks within an organization, such as those found in a workplace. It reflects the organization’s attitude about safety from top to bottom, and across all functions, disciplines, teams, and processes.
Topics: Functional Safety
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What are Electric Vehicle Subsystems and Their Interactions?
Introduction The automotive industry has made several monumental advancements in vehicular technology that have redefined the understanding of modern transportation while still achieving and maintaining the functional safety aspect of creating advanced products. One active example of an opportunity the industry is currently thriving toward is electrification. The development of electric vehicle (EV) products makes testing necessary to ensure the safety and quality of their performance. In addition, that establishes the importance of Electric Vehicle Subsystems and their interactions—understanding how the implementation of these different components affects the construction of larger electrified systems will allow for the overall EV development process to be more efficient.
Topics: Electric Vehicle
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What is Electric Vehicle Testing?
Introduction As several OEMs continue to announce the release of their new electrified vehicles, one can only presume that the world of automotive is shifting into something more heavily dependent on the electric battery (high-voltage). News about electric vehicles (EVs) is not that new, but the most recent development surrounding EVs may leave people feeling both excited and staggered—we are witnessing history being made within the evolution of automotive technology. As many of those working closely inside the industry can attest, it should be reiterated that this newly rising innovation will need continuous support to guarantee every aspect of electrification operates properly as intended once in the consumers’ driveway. Pushing the industry towards electrification, and presumably, the eventual mass implementation of EVs will shift the EV market and the overall automotive supply chain.
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How to Approach Test Requirement Projects with Different Customers
Introduction The process of reviewing, writing, managing, and implementing requirements within functional safety is important in the automotive industry. Requirement implementation is especially important for testing-correction-retesting, which ensures validation. When engineers run these tests, they can determine whether these applications are operating within their intended functionality.
Topics: Test Requirements
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How to Review, Write, Manage, and Implement Test Requirements
Introduction The process of reviewing, writing, managing, and implementing requirements within functional safety is important in the automotive industry. Requirement implementation is especially important for testing-correction-retesting, which ensures validation. When engineers run these tests, they can determine whether these applications are operating within their intended functionality.
Topics: Functional Safety Test Requirements
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What are the key considerations for SOTIF- related software development?
What are the key considerations for SOTIF- related software development? In this 6th article in our SOTIF series, we turn our focus to the human and technology considerations for creating, maintaining, and utilizing software in functionally safe systems.
Topics: SOTIF
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What is the importance of high-quality SOTIF functionality?
What is the importance of high-quality SOTIF functionality?
Topics: SOTIF
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How to Get Your Organization Started with Master Data
How to Get Your Organization Started with Master Data Master data has a critical role to play for your organization when guaranteeing organizational visibility, operational efficiency, and product functional safety. As data becomes more complex in the future, the need for master data in automotive will continue to increase. This blog is the second of a 3-part series focused on the importance of master data, the technical architecture of master data systems, and the trade-offs and constraints that come with building these systems, ultimately proposing what a proper master data plan looks like, which can help organizations achieve growth and success. The content in each blog is centralized around the main topics from LHP’s DAS Master Data webinar panel that we held this past June:
Topics: Master Data
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How to Build Master Data Systems: Architecture, Trade-offs, and Constraints
How to Build Master Data Systems: Architecture, Trade-offs, and Constraints Master data has a critical role to play when guaranteeing organizational visibility, operational efficiency, and product functional safety. As data becomes more complex in the future, the need for master data in automotive will continue to increase. This blog is the second of a 3-part series focused on the importance of master data, the technical architecture of master data systems, and the trade-offs and constraints that come with building these systems, ultimately proposing what a proper master data plan looks like, which can help organizations achieve growth and success. The content in each blog is centralized around the main topics from LHP’s DAS Master Data webinar panel that we held this past June:
Topics: Master Data
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How Does SOTIF Address Safety Design Vulnerabilities?
How Does SOTIF Address Safety Design Vulnerabilities?
Topics: SOTIF
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What Critical Role does Master Data Have in Engineering and Functional Safety?
What Critical Role does Master Data Have in Engineering and Functional Safety? Introduction Master data has a critical role in product functional safety, guaranteeing organizational visibility, and operational efficiency. As data becomes more complex in the future, the need for master data in automotive will continue to increase. This blog is the second of a 3-part series focused on the importance of master data, the technical architecture of master data systems, and the trade-offs and constraints that come with building these systems, ultimately proposing what a proper master data plan looks like, which can help organizations achieve growth and success. The content in each blog is centralized around the main topics from LHP’s DAS Master Data webinar panel that we held this past June:
Topics: Master Data
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LHP Link: How does our Bi-directional Traceability Solution Add Value
LHP Link: How does our Bi-directional Traceability Solution Add Value? Introduction With the growing trend in innovation within the automotive industry and the technology embedded in the products, it is important to understand how far back a product’s life cycle extends. Among other considerations like data analytics, it travels back to the management and implementation of requirements. Having visibility of the entire development of a product and its parts throughout assembly can ensure that they are being developed within the standards and requirements established beforehand. For your company to maintain growth with little disruption in its internal processes, it is worth investing in a tool integration solution that offers valuable bi-directional traceability. LHP Link is a solution unique amongst rivals, one that adds value and continuous growth to an organization.
Topics: Bi-directional Traceability
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What is FMEDA?
What is FMEDA? Today’s modern products are incredibly complex and becoming more so by the day. At the same time, a greater emphasis is being placed on achieving the comprehensive, functional safety of the product in all applications and operational scenarios. Managing these considerations and requirements is no easy task. As this realm increases in complexity, the sheer number of data points that must be tracked and measured increases exponentially. Thus, the tools and processes for managing this data must also evolve and mature.
Topics: ISO 26262 FMEDA
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What Are Automotive Cybersecurity Contingency Plans?
What Are Automotive Cybersecurity Contingency Plans? Interruptions from natural disasters Hackers are not the only source of threats to autonomous and connected vehicles. There are also concerns in automotive cybersecurity where natural phenomena can cause problems that result in degraded security, which can then force systems into a degraded mode or can bring some systems down. Business impact analysis is huge.
Topics: Cybersecurity
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How Do Data Driven Insights Inform Data Optimization?
How Do Data Driven Insights Inform Data Optimization?
Topics: Data Analytics
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How is Automotive Cybersecurity Controlled?
How is Automotive Cybersecurity Controlled?
Topics: Cybersecurity
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What are the Cybersecurity Challenges for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles?
What are the cybersecurity challenges for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles?
Topics: Cybersecurity
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What Can Be Done to Secure Autonomous Vehicles from Cyber Attacks?
What Can Be Done to Secure Autonomous Vehicles from Cyber Attacks?
Topics: Cybersecurity
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Why is Cybersecurity Important for Autonomous Vehicles?
Why is Cybersecurity Important for Autonomous Vehicles? Introduction Modern electric vehicles (EVs) are mechatronic machines that combine electric propulsion, electronic control, mechanical actuators, and extensive sensor packages, to create a vehicle that is more intelligent, more efficient, and safer than traditional fossil fuel vehicles. And as they evolve, they are laying the foundations for true autonomous operation. The lifeblood of these systems is the trustworthy communication of data between the driver and the vehicle, the vehicle and its environment, and the transfer of data among the different systems of the vehicle itself. Keeping these communications protected and secure is the role of cybersecurity, which is the practice of protecting sensitive information and critical systems from digital attacks. The cybersecurity of autonomous vehicles is one of the fastest-growing and most important topics in the automotive realm today and is worthy of detailed examination.
Topics: Cybersecurity
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What are the Advantages of IIoT in the Automotive Industry
What are the Advantages of IIoT in the Automotive Industry
Topics: IIoT
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What is Master Data and How does it Impact the Automotive Industry?
What is Master Data and How does it Impact the Automotive Industry? The term “data” can have an overall significance for our everyday wants and needs. Certain new-age products, like smartphones or smart cars, start with data. In the automotive world, data has a critical role to play in product development and safety altogether; this role will become more important as this industry moves towards distributing more highly sophisticated vehicles in the future. Having a secure baseline of master data is critical for automotive engineers because it allows them to make sense of the automotive world and the products they build within it. If you are an automotive organization looking to maintain growth in new technology and drive positive business outcomes, having a proper master data management solution will help provide real value in those areas. Also, the copious amounts of information within an organization’s master data can clearly define its core values, which can establish a clear path for longevity. Even in other industries—healthcare, manufacturing, aerospace—the centralization of data is a phenomenon that should be becoming normalized. Master data helps optimize organizational consistency, accuracy, and innovation, directly impacting a data-dependent world like automotive.
Topics: Analytics Master Data
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What is Automotive Cybersecurity?
What is Automotive Cybersecurity? Defining cybersecurity To best understand automotive cybersecurity, it is helpful to review the unique requirements of the automotive realm, and then compare them to the more typical cybersecurity considerations that tend to be common across most connected devices and systems. For several years, the automotive industry has been in a state of technological evolution. New, complex inter-connectable technologies continue to emerge that manufacturers and OEMs are embracing at a blistering pace. These include infotainment systems, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and a variety of modern electric vehicle systems.
Topics: Cybersecurity
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What Are the Benefits of Automotive Quality Management Systems?
What Are the Benefits of Automotive Quality Management Systems? Introduction During product development and production, the automotive industry relies heavily on evaluation, verification/validation, and testing, all of which aim toward consistent, efficient road safety worldwide. Quality control is on that list as well, specifically because it allows engineers to continuously measure and assess different products’ specifications to make sure certain components function and behave as intended over the product lifetime.
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ISO 26262 Compliant vs. ISO 26262 Certified
The question: When looking at functional safety, what is the difference between being ISO 26262 compliant and being ISO 26262 certified?
Topics: ISO 26262 Functional Safety Compliance Blog Posts
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Why is Data-driven User Experience important in EV technology
What is the Importance of a Data-driven User Experience in Automotive?
Topics: Data Analytics Electric Vehicle
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How Data Analytics Enables Growth for EV Manufacturers
How Data Analytics Enables Growth for EV Manufacturers Introduction The Electric Vehicle (EV) is not new, but it has been receiving significantly more attention in recent years. Advances in both EV analytics and battery technologies have led to increased automotive market share. However, this growth is not attributed to hardware alone. The modern mechatronic vehicle marries electrical storage and propulsion systems with electronic sensors, controls, and actuators. These are integrated closely with software, secure data transfer, and data analysis. All of these elements are validated through rigorous electric vehicle testing, to form a comprehensive transportation solution. Advances in all these areas have contributed to the overall rise of EV’s, but the common thread that runs through all these elements is data analytics.
Topics: Analytics Electric Vehicle
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Effective Test Cases and How Inputs Influence Decisions
Effective Test Cases and How Inputs Influence Decisions This is Part 2 in a series on creating high-quality test scripts. In “Writing High-Quality Test Scripts: Taming the Chaos,” we touched on the complexity of the testing environment, defined what a test script is, compared test scripts to test cases, and touched on some of the considerations for designing and developing test scripts. In this installment, we compare and contrast some of the inputs and outputs, examine the programming languages used, explore the impact of peer reviews, and take a look at the impact of test cases now and in the future.
Topics: test scripts test cases
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Writing High-Quality Test Scripts: Taming the Chaos
Writing High-Quality Test Scripts: Taming the Chaos
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What is the scope of SOTIF?
What is the scope of SOTIF? An Acceptable Level of Safety The Safety Of The Intended Functionality (SOTIF) conveys a specific view on how automotive systems should be verified and validated as being functionally safe. It is not enough to just claim a system is safe. You must also:
Topics: SOTIF
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What is SOTIF? (Safety of the Intended Functionality) ISO/PAS 21448
What is SOTIF? (Safety of the Intended Functionality) ISO/PAS 21448 The practical operation of automated vehicles in a real-world environment requires that they achieve and maintain a certifiable functionally safe state. These vehicles must maintain this state even when they are operating in chaotic environments shared with older vehicles that may have less or no automation. Thus, attaining this certification—in an environment filled with variables—must itself encompass a broad spectrum of requirements and processes.
Topics: SOTIF
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Part 2: Why Are Mechanical Engineers Important in Achieving Functional Safety?
Part 2: Why Are Mechanical Engineers Important in Achieving Functional Safety? Introduction Functional safety consists of automatic protection systems that are part of the overarching safety of a system or a piece of equipment. Despite the scope of the standard implying a deference towards electrical engineering, mechanical engineers have a critical role to play. To be most effective, there are key principles that mechanical engineers must understand.
Topics: Functional Safety Mechanical Engineers
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Part 1: Principles for Mechanical Engineers to Understand Related to Functional Safety
Part 1: Principles for Mechanical Engineers to Understand Related to Functional Safety Introduction Functional safety consists of automatic protection systems that are part of the overarching safety of a system or a piece of equipment. Despite the scope of the standard implying a deference towards electrical engineering, mechanical engineers have a critical role to play. To be most effective, there are key principles that mechanical engineers must understand.
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What are the key considerations for putting technical safety requirements to work
What are the key considerations for putting technical safety requirements to work
Topics: Functional Safety Technical Requirements
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How to Write Requirements for Functional Safety
How to Write Requirements for Functional Safety? What are the scope and purpose of safety requirements? The role of writing functional safety requirements in the realm of automotive functional safety is to provide a clear understanding of the needs for implementation, independent of the Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL). It is important to clearly define what is going to be implemented, and how it is going to be implemented. This is accomplished through the creation and use of two key documents that are scoped and tailored to the automotive industry:
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262
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Framework for Automotive Cybersecurity
Framework for automotive cybersecurity This is Part 3 of a three-part blog series on automotive cybersecurity. If you have not yet read Part 1: Automotive cybersecurity and trustworthiness, and Part 2: Cybersecurity and the automotive supply chain, we highly recommend that you do so before continuing with Part 3.
Topics: Cybersecurity
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Cybersecurity and the Automotive Supply Chain
Cybersecurity and the automotive supply chain
Topics: Cybersecurity
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Automotive Cybersecurity and Trustworthiness
Automotive cybersecurity and trustworthiness
Topics: Cyber Security
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How does Probability factor into a Safety Analysis?
How does Probability factor into a Safety Analysis?
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262 ASIL
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How are Safety Goals Developed for Functional Safety Management?
How are Safety Goals Developed for Functional Safety Management?
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262 ASIL
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What is Functional Safety Management in Automotive?
What is Functional Safety Management in Automotive? Functional safety is the proper implementation of protective functions that safeguard people from unacceptable risk or injury from the use of a product or system. It is the achievement of specific criteria through the correct performance of formal processes defined in certain international standards.
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262
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What is the Blueprint for Advancing Autonomous Mobility?
What is the Blueprint for Advancing Autonomous Mobility?
Topics: ADAS autonomous mobility
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What will make self-driving cars safe and practical?
What will make self-driving cars safe and practical? Introduction We are in a period of transition. As self-driving cars become more common, drivers must adjust their driving to the capabilities of the vehicle. These capabilities offer significant safety improvements, but they also impact how many safety burdens remain with the driver and require the driver to adapt. One human might adapt readily, while the next person might struggle to adapt, or even be hesitant to try.
Topics: ADAS autonomous mobility
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What the future holds for ADAS control systems
What the future holds for ADAS control systems Introduction
Topics: ADAS
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New Developments in Automotive Autonomy
New Developments in Automotive Autonomy Introduction LHP Engineering Solutions is the functional safety leader committed to creating safer transportation through Advanced driver-assistance systems(ADAS), electrification, and ISO 26262. At LHP, we have had a vision of a safer autonomous automotive future for some time now. It is exciting that as a member of this industry, we are seeing this vision move closer to fruition. In this article, we highlight a few of the many initiatives where LHP is driving innovation in support of a world of functionally safe autonomous mobility.
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How Full Stack Consulting Best Accelerates Your Digital Transformation
How Full Stack Consulting Best Accelerates Your Digital Transformation Introduction Data analytics is a discipline that enables organizations to extract meaningful insight from their data. This includes the analysis, collection, organization, and storage of data, as well as the tools and techniques used to perform these tasks. In this realm, the term full-stack refers to a group of programming languages and tools in which a developer gains competence, to properly execute both the front-end and back-end development of a website.
Topics: Analytics Connectivity digital transformation full stack
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Transformational Changes in Automotive Testing
Transformational Changes in Automotive Testing
Topics: ADAS Automotive Testing
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Guest Blog: Training for a dynamic future
Training for a Dynamic Future Introduction We are seeing an incredible change in the field of mobility, a level of disruption unseen since Henry Ford first rolled a vehicle off his assembly line. Not only are we seeing a change in technology, but we are also seeing fundamental shifts in the way people are interacting with vehicles.
Topics: Training Future of Mobility autonomous mobility
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Guest Blog: Thriving in the autonomous vehicle marketplace
Thriving in the autonomous vehicle marketplace Introduction The future autonomous vehicle landscape will be very different than what we see in automotive today. Many realms will have to grow and evolve, and the challenges are significant. However, so are the opportunities.
Topics: Training Autonomous Driving Future of Mobility
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LHP and Konrad Partner to Deliver New A³DAS Solution - 8 Takeaways
SME Interview Series: LHP and Konrad Technologies Partner on A³DAS Solution LHP’s Vice President of Marketing, Marty Muse, sat down with Steve Neemeh, Chief Technology Officer at LHP, and special guest, Ram Mirwani, the Director of Global Business Development at Konrad Technologies, to discuss their new A³DAS Solution - workflow management with test capability for ADAS/AD functional safety standards within the automotive industry. LHP and Konrad Technologies have partnered together and want to introduce what that partnership means to you and the customer, and perhaps what it means to you as a stakeholder of these companies. We want to jump right in, so let’s go!
Topics: ADAS
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Guest Blog: 2021 Predictions for Automotive Product and Systems Development
This blog on 2021 Predictions for Automotive Product and Systems Development was originially published here from Jama Software, and was answered by Adrian Rolufs, Director of Solutions Architecture at Jama Software.
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262 Electric Vehicle
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How to Ensure Safety in ADAS Design and Verification
How to Ensure Safety in ADAS Design and Verification
Topics: Functional Safety ADAS Blog Posts
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How to Incorporate Guidance into Process Execution Using ALM
How to Incorporate Guidance into Process Execution Using ALM
Topics: ISO 26262 Application Lifecycle Management
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Infographic: Digital Transformation — Four Keys to a Successful Launch
Digital Transformation — Four Keys to a Successful Launch A digital transformation alters how a company does business. It’s a big move that affects work processes, company culture, and customer engagement. Most companies contemplating a digital transformation recognize the value of such a significant change — the ability to respond to an evolving market, meet customer needs, improve internal costs, etc. — but many are not sure where to start or how to boost the odds of success.
Topics: Data Analytics IoT IIoT digital transformation
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Top 10 Questions to Consider When Implementing ADAS
Top 10 Questions to Consider When Implementing ADAS
Topics: Functional Safety ADAS Blog Posts
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An Introduction to Verification and Validation Testing for ADAS
An Introduction to Verification and Validation Testing for ADAS
Topics: Functional Safety ADAS ASPICE Blog Posts
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How to Design Safety Into ADAS Products
How to Design Safety Into ADAS Products
Topics: Functional Safety ADAS ASPICE Blog Posts Standards & Regulations
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How to Capture Your Processes and Regulatory Requirements in ALM
Mature Organizations: How can we ensure our teams are following internal and industry guidelines? Is there a way to automate our internal auditing process to discover gaps and identify improvement areas?
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262 Application Lifecycle Management
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SME Interview: How to Achieve Functional Safety Success with LHP and NI
-An Interview with Steve Neemeh From LHP Engineering Solutions
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262 ADAS
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SME Interview: ALM Tools for ISO 26262 Compliance
-An Interview with Adam Saenz and Nathan Haynes From LHP Engineering Solutions
Topics: Application Lifecycle Management ISO 26262/Functional Safety
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Why ISO 26262 Part 2 is the most critical for your company
Part 2 of ISO 26262, Management of Functional Safety, is the critical one for your company to initially embrace, even though 12 parts exist within ISO 26262. Here’s why: Identifies the need for management to embrace functional safety and establish a safety culture Establishes the framework for the organization as a whole, independent of projects and programs Spells out the overarching developmental requirements for projects and programs (project hereafter) Defines the responsibilities to maintaining functional safety beyond the development phase
Topics: ISO 26262/Functional Safety
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How Does a Complex Standard Like ISO 26262 Save My Company Money?
How does a complex standard like ISO 26262 save my company money? In fact, you have heard just the opposite.
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262
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On-board Diagnostics (OBD) for Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines, Hybrids, and Electric Vehicles
Executive Summary
Topics: Electric Vehicle Hybrid OBD
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8 Challenges of Automotive Cybersecurity
As vehicle technology advances to include more autonomy and higher degrees of connectivity, the number of electronic control units (ECUs) and overall complexity continues to increase. Today, a new vehicle might include over 100 million lines of code that manage and monitor a large array of subsystems including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), infotainment, collision avoidance, and engine/vehicle management. This creates openings for cybersecurity problems.
Topics: Cybersecurity
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How Does Big Data Impact the Automotive Industry?
How Does Big Data Impact the Automotive Industry?
Topics: Data Analytics IoT Connectivity
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What Is Adaptive AUTOSAR?
What Is Adaptive AUTOSAR? A Compelling Overview on Current and Future Trends.
Topics: AUTOSAR
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Why Is Software Quality Assurance Important?
1. Software Quality Assurance In a manufacturing organization, the quality assurance department is responsible for assuring that the products are built as designed, according to an approved project and quality process. Deviations from the process are identified and corrected. Software quality assurance (SQA) can be seen in a similar way, assuring that the necessary processes are written and followed and the resulting software (output) is free from any anomalies or defects.
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Adapting Fuel Cell Technology From Off-Highway to On-Highway
Adapting Fuel Cell Technology From Off-Highway to On-Highway The transportation industry is quickly dominating fuel cell technology, owing to the rising number of fuel-cell powered vehicles across the world. Rising interest in heavy-duty transport applications and a huge market potential in Asia-Pacific for fuel cells in heavy-duty transportation is expected to create significant opportunities for the fuel cell market in the coming years. While Japan and South Korea are expected to play a pivotal role in advancing the fuel cell electric vehicle technology, Europe market is being driven by the Joint Initiative for hydrogen Vehicles (JIVE), which seeks to deploy zero-emission fuel cell buses. A major challenge being faced by the transportation industry to bring this technology to on-highway vehicles is the functional safety aspect of electric vehicles. Companies like LHP, will play a key role in adapting the existing off-highway technologies, with its Model-Based Design expertise and functional safety know-how.
Topics: Fuel Cell Blog Posts
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Understanding an ASIL in the Functional Safety Standard ISO 26262
Understanding an ASIL in the Functional Safety Standard ISO 26262
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262 ASIL
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What Does the Foreseeable Future of an AUTOSAR Engineer Look Like?
What Does the Foreseeable Future of an AUTOSAR Engineer Look Like?
Topics: AUTOSAR Blog Posts
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How to Ensure Your Vendor-Purchased Safety Integrity Level Packages Are Compliant
If you purchase prebuilt (Automotive) Safety Integrity Level – ISO 26262/IEC 61508 or other – packages, what kind of guarantees do you need from the vendor to ensure it is compliant in the larger sense?
Topics: Blog Posts ISO 26262/Functional Safety
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What is the Internet of Things?
What Is IoT? It is impossible to go very long without hearing that IoT, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, and AI are going to completely transform everything we do, both personally and professionally. Yet, for all the talk, most people are willing to admit that, while they might vaguely know what the concepts are and some of the anecdotal effects of these technologies permeating our everyday lives will be, they don't exactly know how to get started. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network that not only connects people, but also the objects around them. A network of smart objects which works together in collecting and analyzing data and autonomously performing actions. Simply put, if a device has an on-off switch and can be connected to the Internet, it’s considered a part of the IoT. Some familiar examples include Amazon Echo, Fitbit, smart refrigerators, connected toothbrush and many more. IoT and Connected cars As companies begin to invest more and more into the Internet of Things, one area they are particularly interested are IoT enabled cars. Connected cars offer great value to consumers (safety, reliability, and convinience) and will have tremendous impact on the auto industry. Connected Cars can avoid collisions by tracking the speed and maintain the perfect distance between vehicles. Even though most of the cars are already equipped with GPS, IoT connected cars will include smart navigation system which can based on the past dataset real-time traffic and weather condition to make the suggestions for best route and the best time to leave for the driver’s destination.
Topics: IoT
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What is ASPICE in Automotive?
ASPICE | What it Means for Automotive Automotive Software Performance Improvement and Capability dEtermination (ASPICE) as a standard provides the framework for defining, implementing, and evaluating the process required for system development focused on software and system parts in the automotive industry. This framework can be extended to include processes from other domains like hardware and mechanical engineering using the “Plug-in” concept explained in the ISO+IEC 33001:2015 standard family, which governs ASPICE. In the plug-in concept, developers are given the freedom to pull processes in from other engineering disciplines which are appropriate to the assessment scope. This means ASPICE, while a software standard, can also add processes specific these other domains, if it will aid in the development and subsequent assessment of a given piece of software. Following the integration of other domain-specific processes into the assessment of software performance is vitally important to capture the capability of modern software in development as vehicles become increasingly mechatronic. This means the electronic and the mechanical aspects of designed components are merging somewhat, becoming less distinct from one another, as their functions combine. Software, hardware, and mechanical processes continue to intersect and integrate as the pace of software innovation increases. The organizations with the most to gain are the ones that can navigate most effectively in the mechatronic environment we will soon enter. Effective navigation in this case means, for one thing, understanding ASPICE and how it affects developers, manufacturers, and suppliers. Contents What ASPICE means for suppliers What it means for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) Outline of ASPICE Process Reference Model Process Measurement Framework Relation to other safety standards Functional Safety (ISO 26262) CMMI vs ASPICE Conclusion
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262 ASPICE Blog Posts
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Which Tools Should I Use for ASIL D Requirement Management ISO 26262/IEC 61508?
There is a multitude of requirements management tools in the marketplace (e.g., IBM DNG, Siemens Polarion, JAMA Software, Helix). How does an organization make the important decision of which is best for its needs when the options are endless or when using Microsoft Word/Excel or Google Docs for requirements management can be considered? Is there even one tool that can meet all of the organization’s needs? This blog will describe why selecting a tool based on one specific departmental need, such as requirements management, might be impractical.
Topics: Functional Safety ISO 26262 Tool Qualification Blog Posts
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Automotive Functional Safety and Cyber Security Validation Framework
Powered by: LHP Engineering Solutions, AASA Incorporated, National Instruments, and PTC LHP Engineering Solutions, an engineering services provider and technology integrator has brought together National Instruments, PTC, and AASA’s LiFi subsidiary, 01LightComm, to create a framework for an NI-Based Functional Safety and Cyber Security Validation Platform. The demonstration addresses the universal automotive principles of Functional Safety violations resulting from Cyber Security compromises. The impactful automotive demonstration leverages the existing technology available in today’s market, introduces LiFi as a viable V2X communication option, and addresses the specific automotive Functional Safety risks in a Cyber Security realm.
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Cyber Security Functional Safety Ecosystem Blog Posts
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Trustworthiness and the Autonomous Vehicle with the LHP Ecosystem
Self-driving vehicles are coming. There’s a certain sense of inevitability. Mentions appear almost daily in the news with players such as Tesla, Uber, Google/Waymo, and Apple spending millions on development. Yet the public is uncertain of the value and safety of such vehicles.
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Functional Safety Ecosystem Blog Posts
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LHP and PerceptIn Partner to Deliver Autonomous Solutions for Microtransit Industry
By partnering with PerceptIn’s modular approach to autonomous sensor development, LHP’s knowledge of embedded controls and system integration proves to bring low-cost, easy-to-build autonomous solutions to the micro-transit industry. COLUMBUS, Ind., AUGUST 08, 2019-- PerceptIn, a company focused on robotic mobility and visual intelligence, and LHP Engineering Solutions (LHP), a global engineering services provider and technology integrator within the transportation industry have partnered to deliver autonomous modular solutions that will transform a traditional human-operated vehicle into a self-driving machine.
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Blog Posts
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Testing Requirements of Autonomous Features with National Instruments Powertrain Control Modules
NI Drivven Powertrain Modules, Exclusively sold by LHPTS, an LHP division.
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Test Systems Blog Posts
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Trustworthiness: A New Name Within Automotive
When contending with the complicated and interconnected devices of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the question of trustworthiness is often introduced. How do we make certain that the systems as designed are worthy of trust? Questions like this are intuitive and necessary, of course. However, they often lack the rigorous framework needed for a robust implementation in system design. “Trust” is a word that we may all think we understand, but when applying it to a network connected device in a crucial automotive subsystem, the word’s precise formulation becomes paramount.
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Functional Safety Ecosystem Blog Posts
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Automotive Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Platform
LHP will be at the 2018 IoT Solutions World Congress Showcasing Embedded Cybersecurity On a Vehicle Platform
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Cyber Security Functional Safety Ecosystem Blog Posts
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Improving Vehicle Safety through Simulated Testing Techniques
Improving driving safety through the reduction in opportunities for human error has been a focus of automotive manufacturers since the 1970s when anti-lock braking systems were first introduced. Automated features have since evolved to include more advanced technologies such as blind spot monitoring, adaptive cruise control, and self-parking. These features are now commonly known as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Test Systems Blog Posts
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Improving H/Ev Motor Control Using Simulation in Labview
How to evaluate H/EV technology to improve motor control using simulation in LabView One of the most integral elements of the Hybrid and Electrical Vehicle or H/EV is the control technology. Due to these vehicles operating in a vast range of environments the motor will regularly switch through various loads. With that said, the most important issue is improving motor control efficiency while maintaining performance and avoiding damage. It’s wise to test control algorithms for motor control through simulation before applying power to any circuit. Especially when working with hundreds of volts and/or hundreds of amps of current. A simple mistake in your control algorithm can damage components or even worse cause collateral damage.
Topics: Electric Vehicle Test Systems Blog Posts
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A Cleaner Powertrain Design Driven by Stringent Emission Standards
When Toyota launched the first Prius in 1997, many consumers probably didn’t imagine that just 20 short years later the electric- and hybrid-vehicle market would be accelerating faster than ever. With its launch in 2003, Tesla popularized the pure EV trend and has since been viewed as the catalyst transforming every major automotive OEM. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and fully-electric vehicles (EVs) or battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are taking over and continuing to improve year over year. According to the Electric Vehicle World Sales Database,“122,000 plug-in vehicles have been delivered in the first half of 2018, an increase of 37 percent compared to H1 of 2016. 53 percent were pure electric (BEV) and 47 percent were plug-in hybrids.” OEMs such as Chevrolet, Toyota, and Honda, and Nissan are joining Tesla to record unprecedented growth rates and volumes for electric vehicle sales.
Topics: Electric Vehicle Blog Posts
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Recruiting Trends for New Technology
How Engineering Recruiting Trends Have Evolved with New Vehicle Technology
Topics: Careers Blog Posts
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Adapting to New Testing Needs and Standards in the Automotive Industry
Recent events such as China’s plans to scrap pure internal combustion engines as soon as 2030, the release of Tesla’s Model 3, and announcements by several large automakers about ramping up electric vehicle (EV) production and possibly eliminating gasoline-powered vehicle production, have accelerated efforts to develop competitive EVs and hybrid vehicles across the automotive industry i. But, even with falling purchase prices for many hybrids and plug-in EVs (PEVs), rising gasoline prices, and various government incentives for purchasing electrified vehicles, this change isn’t happening overnight.
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Test Systems Blog Posts
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The Latest Technology to Optimize Propulsion System Performance
As fuel costs trend upward and emissions standards tighten across the globe, researchers and engineers are working to optimize vehicle propulsion system performance through key technological advancements such as more efficient user-friendly stop-start systems, hybrid powertrains, and direct fuel injection. To develop these technologies efficiently and effectively, researchers and engineers need flexible control and simulation tools that allow them to take advantage of modern design and control techniques.
Topics: Test Systems Blog Posts
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Integrating Today’s Top Technology to Power the Research of Tomorrow
Today, automotive researchers and engineers are constantly evolving their research to optimize propulsion system control technologies for the vehicles of tomorrow. At labs around the globe, R&D teams are heavily focused on improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions through technology such as more efficient, user-friendly stop-start systems and mild hybrid powertrains.
Topics: Test Systems Blog Posts
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Big Trucks - Big Data: The Use of IoT in Truck Platooning
Continuing from LHP’s recent post on truck platooning - “Is Platooning the Future of IoT in The Trucking Industry?”, there are other implications to the evolving automation of heavy-duty trucking, especially as they relate to big data and analytics. As a review, the areas of EU regulatory framework are to focus on:
Topics: IoT Autonomous Vehicle
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Autonomy is the Future of the Automotive World
How the Autonomous Electric Vehicle Bootcamp is propelling the automotive industry with hands-on-training Today’s job market looks more different than it ever has before. Industries that our grandparents and great grandparents once knew are becoming obsolete due to the rising trend in autonomy. Remember when you heard someone say, “Robots will take over the world one day?” Well, they weren’t wrong, but maybe it’s not such a bad thing. The automotive industry is being propelled forward by technology and autonomous features, and the next job to be taken over by robot is, “Driver.” Push for Autonomy The push for autonomous vehicles is supported largely by the tech industry and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). According to SAE International’s levels of vehicle autonomy, ADAS includes emergency breaking, backup cameras, adaptive cruise control, and self-parking systems. As ADAS systems continue to evolve with the growing competence of technology, a shift towards new entrants and disruptive trends in the automotive industry is imminent. Soon, the days of the traditional internal combustion engines will yield to a wave of fully electric vehicle adoption in the form of battery powered AC/DC motors. Source: Texas Instruments " What’s next for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems? " According to a study by McKinsey , “Electrification, autonomous driving, diverse mobility, and connectivity… will transform typically vertically integrated automotive value chains into a complex, horizontally structured ecosystem.” OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers must embrace the change in technology to meet the demands of consumers and scale operations. Engineers and those who wish to work in automotive and tech industries will also have to adapt their skills and challenge what traditional education has taught. How LHPU is Addressing the Autonomous Trend LHPU recognizes the importance of preparing professionals for the autonomous marketplace and has created the Autonomous Electric Vehicle Bootcamp. Not only will the Bootcamp provide college students and recent graduates with a practical introduction to the technologies in autonomous vehicles, but students will get an in-depth look at how to manage a real-world working environment, including project management, team interactions, project reporting and dealing with change. The Bootcamp is designed for engineering and technology students that are ready to expand their academic skills by designing, making, and testing a fully autonomous electric go-kart. This course uniquely and aptly incorporates of the latest industry safety standards for electric and autonomous vehicles. At the end of the course, students should have a working appreciation of important technologies and safety standards in autonomous vehicles. Students that complete this course will be ready to enter the emerging autonomous vehicle industry - an industry that is poised to cause the largest economic transformation in the first half of the 21st century. Course Highlights include: Embedded Systems Functional Safety – ISO 26262 Standard Overview and Implementation Controls Strategy Development using Model-Based Design tool (MotoHawk) and Simulink CAN Communications (J1939 Protocol) ISO 26262 Tool Classification and Qualification MES Embedded Coder Tool for Section 6 of ISO 26262 MotoTune Calibration Tool The course is designed to introduce autonomous technology in the form of an autonomous electric go-kart. The goal of the class is to have the students implement autonomous features using GPS and IMU sensors on a 48-volt battery powered go-kart. Download course Flyer Real-world Application in 8-Week bootcamp The AEV go-kart used in the 8-week bootcamp utilizes GPS sensors to receive current GPS co-ordinates from satellites in order to map vehicle drive paths and location. The IMU sensors helps correct the vehicle’s heading direction. They work in conjunction to guide the vehicle using a path planner pre-programmed into the system’s brain (ECU). The ECU is programmed with a pre-conceived path in terms of GPS coordinates. Other technology and automotive companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Waymo are using similar GPS technology for navigation. LHPU hopes to make the bootcamp as realistically applicable to a real vehicle with existing technology backings (LIDAR, ultrasound, camera vision) as possible. Learn More About the Course Autonomous Electric Vehicle Bootcamp course of 2018 Columbus, IN: 305 Franklin St. Columbus, IN 47201 DATE: May 1 – June 21, 2018 Purdue University: Purdue University’s main campus – 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907 DATE: June 12 – August 2, 2018 If you are interested in attending the upcoming course, Visit LHPU.com and apply to get hands-on experience with cutting-edge autonomous vehicle technology.
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Blog Posts
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How to Control Rail Pressure in a Gasoline Direct Injection Fuel System
As automobiles continue to become cleaner, higher performing, and more reliable, their designs evolve. One critical system undergoing dramatic change is the fuel system; according to US EPA predictions, DI fuel systems in light-duty vehicles have been growing and are expected to grow to over 90% of the share of vehicles sold by 2025. As researchers and developers continue to innovate and look for engine solutions, understanding how to control these fuel systems is of the utmost importance.
Topics: Test Systems Blog Posts
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ISO 26262 Facts and Tips Presented by Industry Experts - (What is Functional Safety in the Automotive Industry)
Automotive Functional Safety- ISO 26262 A Streamlined Approach to Meeting Today's Functional Safety Requirements Just as in Aerospace, the International Standards Organization has created the functional safety standard, ISO 26262, for the automotive industry. Automotive functional safety is the part of the overall safety of a system or piece of equipment that depends on the system or equipment operating correctly in response to it inputs, including the safe management of likely operator errors, hardware failures, and environmental changes.
Topics: ISO 26262 Blog Posts
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Did the Jetsons Predict the Future of the Transportation Industry?
Since the early 1960s, Americans have been enamored with the animated sitcom “The Jetsons” and their depiction of a futuristic, space-like utopia. The show is full of talking robots, floating houses, and even flying cars.Years ago, the sitcom felt fanciful and far-fetched. And yet, here we are - in an age when these dreamlike fantasies are closer than ever to becoming our reality. We can’t help but wonder, did the Jetsons predict the future of the transportation industry?
Topics: Autonomous Vehicle Blog Posts
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Fuel Efficiency for Autonomous and Electric Vehicles
Will Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Kill the Fuel Industry? Did you know the first electric vehicle was introduced more than 100 years ago? Today, electric vehicles are rising in popularity, and the development of the autonomous vehicle is partially responsible. One of the most publicized benefits of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is the decreased consumption of gasoline, leading to a reduction in demand for fossil fuels. Combined with stricter emissions regulations, the question is will these changes singlehandedly kill the fuel industry?
Topics: Electric Vehicle Blog Posts
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LHP Reinvents the Traditional Engineering V-Model
LHP Engineering Solutions will be exhibiting at the 23rd annual NI Week in Austin, Texas, at the Downtown Convention Center May 22- May 25. LHP is excited to announce the addition of analytics & IoT capabilities to its legendary offering of Hardware-in-the-loop Test Platform (HTP) and Panthera rapid controls prototyping platformsbased on National Instruments Hardware.
Topics: Embedded Controls Blog Posts
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A New Platform For Testing Complex Control Systems - Part 3
LHP is releasing a new product into our model-based design and test workflow at the Automotive Testing Expo in Novi, MI on 10/20. The LHP Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Platform (LHP/HTP) supports verification and validation of embedded systems development.