Automotive and Transportation Systems

Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE

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Software drives innovation in more and more products, making it an indispensable part of engineering. Using the right methods and technologies is crucial for high-quality products and efficient, lean processes.

We support organizations in designing development processes based upon established standards (i.e., ISO/IEC 12207, IEC 61508), and in using software process maturity models (i.e., ISO/IEC 15504, Automotive SPICE, CMMi).

A central aspect of our customer activities is the quality assurance of software systems and components. From the evaluation of current development activities via variation management to the maintenance of legacy systems: we have a solution that will give you an objective assessment and concrete measures.

Current hot topics, such as the anticipation of the ISO 26262 safety standard, test automation of x-in-the-loop tests, or process optimization for the lean development of your processes are tailored and integrated into your organization by Fraunhofer IESE’s experts.
Quality assessments of products and processes are performed according to the state of the art in an independent, cost-efficient manner.

We offer individual and customized services based upon our competencies:

Please contact us. We are eager to discuss your individual challenges with you and sketch a solution based on our competencies. We offer:

  • Trainings, workshops, coaching
  • Independent quality analyses and assessments
  • Controlled introduction and transfer of new technology
  • Customer-specific process and tool consulting, empirical validation
  • (Co-)Development of architectures and innovative prototypes

Customers Projects

Audi AG | BMW AG | Hitachi Ltd. | IPA - Japan | John Deere | MBtech, Mercedes-Benz technology | Robert Bosch GmbH | Smart Energy Forecast

Key Public Projects

SPES 2020 | Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster DNT | ViERforES – Better Systems through Virtual Reality | MWare – Software Technologies for Multicore Platforms |
SIM-TD – Secure Intelligent Mobility – Test Field Germany | D-MINT – Model-based testing of Software-intensive Systems

Featured Projects

  • Audi AG, E-NORM(ously) safe, Electromobility yes, but safety first!

    This is the goal of the AUDI research alliance “e performance” with regard to electric vehicles.The goal proclaimed by the federal government, namely, to make Germany a leading market for electromobility and to put one million electric vehicles on the road by the year 2020, is another indicator of the innovation power hidden in electromobility.

  • John Deere, High-Tech in the Commercial Vehicle Industry

    In modern agricultural technology, products without a substantial proportion of software are no longer conceivable. Current agricultural machinery in general and tractors in particular are usually equipped with a multitude of electronic control devices that take over tasks ranging from engine control via safety-relevant functions to networked agricultural applications. In modern tractors, many of the operating elements that used to be purely mechanical have been replaced by interactive, graphical displays.

  • Mbtech Mercedes-Benz technology, Model-based and Statistical Testing: How Good Is Software?

    Since the 1970s, systematic software test procedures have been the subject of intensive research. In the meantime, they have been accepted by large parts of industry as a compulsory need. However, a test is usually just a small sample taken from the possible usage scenarios of the software to be checked. The reasons for this are feasibility and complexity: Many test cases make the testing process more expensive and make it more difficult to keep an overview regarding consistency and possible redundancies.

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