A WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE INFORMATION HUB FOR FUTURE VEHICLE ENGINEERING

Abstract

Mobility must change drastically within the next 5 to 10 years especially in urban areas. It must fit to societal and ecological requirements and expectations. Therefore, also vehicles and transportation products will change as well as related business models. New players and start-ups have to be integrated within the collaboration framework, approaches for cooperation, organization and process design have to be thought out in a new way. As a consequence, vehicle development itself has to look different. Complexity of product, process and cooperation will still rise [1] due to new product functions, increased individualization of mobility products and dynamic market changes. Players who are able to handle complexity and permanent changes and uncertainties ("VUCA") in a proper way will win this competition. An important aspect will be the question of how data and information can be provided efficiently, interdisciplinary and user-oriented over the entire lifecycle. Within the "Future Engineering Lab" research project, VIRTUAL VEHICLE, together with well-known partners from industry and research, addresses aspects of how vehicle development and the development environment should look in the future. These approaches will be presented in a laboratory environment in order to make them more tangible and to better support decision-making processes. One result is a demonstrator that graphically depicts information in the context of arbitrary views, allowing for intuitive and hassle-free navigation and exploration of engineering data for developers. This paper explains the objective, concept and claims of the demonstrator application.