SOFTWARE INFORMATION

Prerequisites for acquiring and using the autoConform® Software Suite

Organisational Prerequisites

Customers interested in acquiring and using the autoConform® Software Suite may have to adapt their internal system development processes in order to be able to exploit fully the quality-improving and time-saving potentials of the autoConform® Software Suite.

The best way to get to know us and our autoConform® Software Suite is to let us participate in one of your system development projects via an engineering work contract. As a result of such a collaboration, you will not only receive the engineering works specified in the contract. You will also learn

whether or not your internal system development process is suited, or can be made suited, for the autoConform® Software Suite, and

which savings potential the autoConform® Software Suite has for your organisation.

Therefore, we only offer the autoConform® Software Suite to customers with whom we had successfully collaborated in a previous system development project.

A general organisational prerequisite for using the autoConform® Software Suite is a willingness to develop and maintain a Simulink® system model throughout the entire system development project. In addition, a priority shift from the more restricted task of

system and software architecture modelling

to the more general task of

system and software function development

may be necessary.

Technically Prerequisites

Basic MATLAB® and Simulink® by The MathWorks®, Inc., Release 2016b or later.

Microsoft® Excel® 2007 or later, VBA must be permitted.

Document Management System with Excel® Import and Export.

Industrial Sectors Targeted by the autoConform® Software Suite

The autoConform® Software Suite targets all industries which develop and produce systems. These industries include:

automotive,

avionics,

energy,

manufacturing, and

medical.

The autoConform® Software Suite is built on standards*

Systems and Software Engineering

ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 (2015) – System life cycle processes

ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 (2017) – Software life cycle processes

ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 (2011) – Architecture description

ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 (2018) – Requirements engineering

Functional Safety Engineering and Safety Analyses

IEC 61508 (2010) – Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems

ISO 26262 (2018) – Road vehicles — Functional safety

IEC 61882 (2016) – Hazard and operability studies

IEC 61025 (2006) – Fault Tree Analysis

IEC 60812 (2018) – Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA and FMECA);
AIAG VDA FMEA Handbook 2019

* Only selected standards listed.

Development and Maintenance of the autoConform® Software Suite

The functionality of the autoConform® Software is constantly being extended according to customer needs.

In particular, document templates will be adjusted if

requested by customers, or

underlying standards have changed.