In the fast-moving automotive industry, developers are facing increasing pressure to accelerate their development timelines and reduce costs, all while meeting ever-evolving safety standards. With new technologies emerging, industry standards evolving, and competition intensifying, there is a growing demand to streamline development processes. For those working on vehicles, balancing speed, cost, and safety has never been more critical.
Let’s explore how New Eagle can help you strike that perfect balance with three concrete strategies.
Understanding the Landscape: Speed vs. Safety
With new technologies emerging quickly and new players entering the market, the timeline to get to production has shortened dramatically. If you have a long development timeline, let’s face it—you’re already behind.
No matter how much you speed up your timeline, though, there’s no way to bypass the industry’s rigorous safety standards. So, developers need to account for meeting those standards—especially if you’re working with ADAS technology or automated vehicles.
So, what can developers do?
Three Strategies for More Efficient Vehicle Development
We’ve compiled a list of three strategies you can engage this year to shorten your development timeline without sacrificing safety standards.
1. Examine Your Current Methodologies
Start by taking a critical look at your current methods. Can you pinpoint any areas where your process has some bloat? Are your teams set up for clear communication and cross-functionality? Have you created failsafes through parallel development tracks? Don’t be afraid to be rigorous in your assessment. This step can save you time in the long run.
Being thorough in your assessment can save you significant time in the long run by streamlining your process.
2. Mitigate Your Risk
There’s more than one way to mitigate risk. In addition to ensuring your risk assessment and management systems are robust, don’t ignore steps early on in the process. Catch mistakes before they happen with early hazard analysis and fail-safe design principles.
Pro tip: New Eagle’s Raptor software suite allows you to build, calibrate, and test for safety without costly prototype iterations.
In addition to mitigating risk from within, stay up to date with changing regulations and safety standards from outside bodies, especially the ISO (or International Organization for Standardization). Don’t be shy about finding informative resources like our ISO 26262 resource guide to help you out.
3. Leverage Technology and Tools
Choosing the right technology and tools is critical to speeding up vehicle development. Whether you’re selecting the perfect ECU, developing your EV supervisory controller, or running simulations, having the right solution is key.
New Eagle’s line of hardware and software solutions provides everything you need for simulation, modeling, automated testing and validation, and real-time monitoring and reporting. By optimizing your toolkit, you can save time and money throughout the development cycle.
Navigate the Path to Safe and Fast Production with New Eagle
Finding the perfect balance between speed and safety is achievable—and New Eagle is here to help. Our expert team can guide you through the process of refining your methods, optimizing your tools, and ensuring that you meet industry safety standards without sacrificing efficiency.
Reach out to us today to learn how we can help you accelerate your automotive production timeline while ensuring safety every step of the way.
