New E&A seminar: the essential role of embedded software

In collaboration with the members of the FHI Software cluster, E&A is organizing a seminar on this for the first time this year embedded software at the fair. The goal of the seminar is to increase the visibility of embedded software in the manufacturing industry. Six speakers will give a lecture focusing on the importance of embedded software for the product development process. The date and time will be announced soon.

Customers often underestimate the amount of time and work that goes into properly designing, implementing and testing embedded software during the product development process. This needs to change, concluded the members of the Software Cluster during the seminar meeting on Wednesday 1 March. That is why the initiative for a new seminar was born that specifically focuses on the essential role of embedded software in the product development process.

Six innovative companies have pledged their cooperation. Dekimo opens the seminar with a presentation on the communication between the hardware and software departments. In practice, miscommunications sometimes arise between the two departments. This is often because they work in a parallel process instead of integrated together on one project. During the seminar, Dekimo provides appealing practical examples from its own kitchen and concrete tips on how to improve cooperation.

Logic Technology then outlines a situation in which the software is integrated into the hardware development. The visitor is introduced to a method in which hardware and software go hand in hand. The central question is: how do you specify, develop and manage software components and libraries in such a way that they are transferable from R&D to assembly and production? Logic Technologie shares advice that many companies will recognize.

Then he tells QBayLogic about a programming method in which hardware and software are developed simultaneously and integrated. The vision behind this is the subject of discussion during this fascinating lecture. INDES IDS explains how you as a company can think about testing software from the beginning of the process. You want to avoid discovering after development that the product does not work, for example because the hardware and software do not function together as originally intended. Then you have to go back to the drawing board and that costs a lot of time and money.

Software is not tangible and therefore difficult to make visual. Industrial designer GBO Innovation Makers therefore concludes the seminar with a lecture on the visible translation of software within a final product. GBO Innovation Makers does not make software itself, but as a design specialist is closely involved in product development processes and in that capacity is intensively involved with the final product.

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