A Framework for Product Development Process including HW and SW Components

Authors: Namchul Do, Gyeongseok Chae

Abstract:

This paper proposes a framework for product development including hardware and software components. It provides separation of hardware dependent software, modifications of current product development process, and integration of software modules with existing product configuration models and assembly product structures. In order to decide the dependent software, the framework considers product configuration modules and engineering changes of associated software and hardware components. In order to support efficient integration of the two different hardware and software development, a modified product development process is proposed. The process integrates the dependent software development into product development through the interchanges of specific product information. By using existing product data models in Product Data Management (PDM), the framework represents software as modules for product configurations and software parts for product structure. The framework is applied to development of a robot system in order to show its effectiveness.

Keywords: HW and SW Development Integration, ProductDevelopment with Software.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1334093

References:

[1] B. S. Choi and D. K. Bok, "Trends of Convergence in Automobile and IT," (in Korean) SERI Economic Focus, No 65, 2005.
[2] J. Estublier, J-M Favre and P. Morat, "Toward SCM/PDM Integration," System Configuration Management, SCM-8, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1439, Springer, pp. 75-94, 1999.
[3] A. P. Dahlqvis, I. Crnkovic and M. Larsson, "Managing Complex Systems - Challenges for PDM and SCM," Software Configuration Management, SCM-10 23th ICSE, Toronto, Canada, 2001.
[4] I. Crnkovic, U. Asklund, and A. P. Dahlqvist, Implementing and Integrating Product Data Management and Software Configuration Management. Artech House, 2003.
[5] T. Mannisto, T. Soininen and R. Sulonen, "Configurable Software Product Families," ECAI 2000 Configuration Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 2000.
[6] T. Krebs, K. Wolter and L. Hotz, "Model-based Configuration Support for Product Derivation in Software Product Families," PuK 2005, 2005.