About the Client:
The Client was a global OEM in the automotive space seeking to identify best practices and tools for engineering validation by studying its implementation in other companies with similar product development complexity in order to improve their own approach to validation and verification and enhance product development.
Challenge:
PreScouter’s goal in this Research Support Service License was to analyze how companies in the automotive and other industries were tackling the engineering validation challenge and extract key insights for the Client.
Approach:
PreScouter looked at leading companies in the A&D, high tech, automotive, and equipment manufacturing industries to understand their approaches to engineering validation and verification and identify best practices, covering the following areas:
- Virtualization for validation
- Model-based systems engineering
- The AGILE process for validation
- Organizational structures for validation and verification
- Digital twins & artificial intelligence
Additionally, the PreScouter team brought on 4 Subject Matter Experts and interviewed 4 others to provide deep-level insights and also investigated the academic literature to identify key trends and centers of excellence in the areas of interest to the Client.
Outcome:
PreScouter shared the insights and recommendations from their investigation with the Client company executives and senior management, and they were leveraged to benchmark the company’s efforts to other organizations.
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