Enhancing Model-Based Engineering of Product Lines by Adding Functional Safety

Abstract. Today’s industrial product lines in the automotive and construction equipment domain face the challenge to show functional safety standard compliance and argue for the absence of failures for all derived product variants. The product line approaches are not sufficient to support practitioners to trace safety-related characteristics through development. We aim to provide aid in creating a safety case for a certain configuration in a product line such that overall less effort is necessary for each configuration. In this paper we 1) discuss the impact of functional safety on product line development, 2) describe a model-based approach to capture safety-related characteristics during concept phase for product lines and 3) discuss the usefulness of our proposal.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: MODELS
• Authors: Stephan Baumgart, Joakim Fröberg, Sasikumar Punnekkat
• Keywords: MODELS 2015, Natural Language Processing