Editorial Notes

摘要

Dear Reader, I recently had an eye-opening con versation about E/E architecture and hardware complexity with Markus Junginger, a partner at MHP, a 3500-person management and IT consulting division of Porsche that serves the Volks wagen Group, among others. “The industry is missing a proper architectural foundation,” he said. Today, German carmakers work very hard to minimize the cost of the vehicle’s electronics hardware, but they offer a multitude of product variations and encourage customers to choose from a multitude of options. “A single car line could theoretically have 10 to 13 possible permutations,” Junginger noted, “that’s complexity that does not deliver value to the customer. It makes the development process cumbersome and time consuming.”