Logistics 4.0 & Commercial Vehicle

The global sustainability targets associated with a significant CO₂ reduction can only be achieved through highly efficient and alternative powertrain concepts. As your engineering partner, we support you in the end-to-end development of innovative powertrain concepts.

What we do at a glance:

• Hybridization and electrification
• Simulation studies and analysis to enable efficient operating strategies
• Fuel-cell systems integration in vehicle applications
• Safe H2 (tank) systems integration in vehicles
• Software algorithms development for battery management systems
• Certified development environment (CI/CD toolchain) up to ASILD/SIL4 applications

Learn more about alternative drives.

Enhancing driver safety and building a more efficient supply chain – these are the big drivers in the commercial vehicle sector. Automated solutions such as platooning help increase safety on the road and for the driver, while reducing the convoy’s fuel consumption. Automated vehicles ensure smooth, safe operations out on the freeway and in the trailer yard. As your go-to partner for automated solutions, we can help you develop your vehicle fleet, efficiently and safely. Anything goes, from driver assistance systems to highly automated driving functions. Our service range runs the gamut from developing concepts and function-centered software to verifying and validating vehicle-related developments in the virtual and real worlds.

What we do at a glance:

• Platooning concepts and systems
• Trailer yard concepts and systems
• Development of warning systems such as the blind spot information system (BSIS) and UN/ECE R159: moving-of information system (MOIS)
• UNECE WP.29- and ISO/SAE 21434-compliant safety and protection concepts
• SOTIF-related risk management (ISO 21448)

Learn more about tomorrow’s Automated Mobility.

The transportation industry is facing tremendous change. Every vehicle is nowadays connected to a cloud and is capable of uploading and downloading data. The extensive amounts of data that a truck can send and receive opens up a multitude of possibilities for the entire logistics chain. More efficient processes, lower costs, higher productivity, greater comfort for the driver – the benefits of connected solutions are many.

What we do at a glance:

• Cloud Computing
• Edge Computing
• Data analytics & artificial intelligence
• Digital Twin
• Predictive diagnostics, predictive maintenance
• Communication strategies, conecpts, and system development
• Telematics XOTA – over-the-air data transfer
• V2X Standard 11.p broadcasting for diverse use-cases
• UNECE WP.29- and ISO/SAE 21434-compliant safety and protection concepts
• Vehicle monitoring
• Integrating connected services

Increasing complexity of E/E systems, growing numbers of autonomous functions, but also electrification and the use of hydrogen are making it ever more important to firmly incorporate functional safety into the development process and to develop products safely.

We advise and support customers throughout the entire development process to achieve functional safety (ISO 262626) as well as SOTIF “Safety of the intended functionality” (ISO 21448) and offer the following service packages accordingly.

What we do at a glance:

• Hazard analysis & risk assessment (HARA) for Powertrain / Autonomous Systems / Over-the-air Solutions / …
• Functional and technical safety concept
• Safety analyses (according to IEC 61508 on Automotive ISO 26262)
• Safety engineering consulting
• Operational safety management (incl. safety assessments + SOTIF + security)
• Verification and validation strategies according to ISO 26262 and ISO 21448
• Safety processes, assessments and audits
• Training and coaching in the area of functional safety

Find out more about our expertise in the field of functional safety.

In the digital commercial vehicle industry and transport chain, vehicles, companies and retailers are exchanging more and more amounts of data. These increasing connected systems also offer growing potential for attackers who want to tap into sensitive data or manipulate vehicle functions.

From 06/2024 onward the UNECE regulation 155 demands that all newly registered vehicles have to be compliant to the cyber security aspects of the respective regulation. To achieve this, a cyber security engineering process has to be applied for vehicles and their components. While UNECE R155 affects OEMs, the OEMs typically require ISO/SAE 21434 compliance from their suppliers.

Call on us as your partner, leveraging our strategy consulting services to ensure your compliance with regulations and OEM requirements. We also support you in the development of secure products – from risk analysis to testing – always aligned with ISO/SAE 21434. Find more information on our cyber security engineering services.

What we do at a glance:

• Cyber security Strategy Consulting
• Cyber security Process Consulting
• Cyber security threat and risk analysis (TARA) according to ISO 21434
• Cyber security concept consulting
• Implementation of cyber security mechanisms in hardware (e.g. HSM)
  and software
• Penetration testing, fussing
• Cyber security training

Modern commercial vehicle E/E architecture is increasingly complex and the number of functions a modern vehicle is required to perform is rising exponentially. To tackle this complexity structured approaches are required. We can help you on the system level by aligning the vehicle requirements with all stakeholders, by breaking down the requirements and allocating them to components. At the software level we can help you developing the functions that will make your vehicle a success on the market.

What we do at a glance:

• Model based system engineering (requirement engineering & architecture development)
• Model based software development
• Software and software-architecture development
• OEM specific platform and function development (Embedded Linux, AUTOSAR, ROS, Hypervisor-RTOS, OSEK)
• Customer specific hardware-agnostic white-box solutions