Smart Automotive Variant.con

Smart Automotive Variant.con is a conference dedicated to the complexities in Automotive Engineering and ways to simplify various issues, including topics such as:

• Mastering complexity - How to turn complexity management into competitive advantage
• Combining competitiveness with a diversified product range
• Consistent variant management as an essential element for successful complexity management
• Moving beyond `Reduction of Complexity` as the final goal to better understand and control the unreducible complexities
• Optimising the trade-off between the need for standardized and product diversity
• Differentiation of variant management to other methods of managing complexity
• Complexity control in a global value chain and coordination of a diversified product range
• Integration of a consistent variant management into present or new to build product development processes
• Revealing local and global optimization potentials by calculating optimized product variants
• Cost-simulation of variants & complexity
• Individualisation, automation and variance – quick response and automatic data and document generation for flexible engineering
• Efficient product & variant configuration, risk reduction and effort minimization
• Interdisciplinary variant management in product development through service-oriented integrations platforms
• Variant management & internal management of complexity – Optimizing processes between product strategy, product engineering, manufacturing, sales & service
• Addressing both the theoretical and the practical challenges of product configuration in an assemble-to-order environment
• Overall requirements for a successful system to support the product configuration needs throughout the extended enterprise
• Overcoming the challenges of lean production and supply chain
• Propose an integrated approach for the consolidation of configuration across a number of business domains
• Variant management in the context of product development processes (Variant Avoidance)
• Feasibility und limits in working with a product configurator
• Integrated safety concept based on an architecture model
• Variant management in product lifecycle (Variant Control)
• Variability in model-based engineering
• Modular safety concept based on an architecture model
• Variability in structure: from Features to AUTOSAR Software components
• Variability in a system modeling context: The EAST-ADL Approach
• Variability vs. model annotations: Requirements, timing, safety, error propagation, power, cost, etc