Saving real process costs in building and rebuilding development vehicles — by simplifying data maintenance elsewhere.
Updating a test vehicle to the latest hardware level on a regular basis is costly and time-consuming — and often unnecessary for many tests. You just don’t know it.
That was exactly the topic of the talk by Daniel Leukhardt (Mercedes-Benz AG) and my colleague Marvin Höhn (BHC GmbH) at the ivip Symposium: giving the person responsible for each hardware component a simple way to record in the tool which parts are mutually interchangeable.
This makes it possible to see which rebuilds of test vehicles are actually necessary. As so often, the devil is in the details — and an overview and knowledge of the entire end-to-end process are crucial.
Hardware exchangeability makes visible what was already true: not every rebuild of a test vehicle is really necessary. Anyone who records this information cleanly in the tool saves process costs where they are least noticeable but most regular.