{"id":1970,"date":"2010-07-16T01:46:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Managing-Automotive-Complexity\/ba-p\/334409"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:14:27","slug":"managing-automotive-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/managing-automotive-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Automotive Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Managing complexity was a consistent theme at PLM Connection two weeks ago. We shared with customers ways in which the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/plm\/definition\/hd-plm.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">HD-PLM technology framework<\/A> could help visualize and make sense of that complexity. So it was timely that during that same week, SAE held a webinar titled: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/event.on24.com\/eventRegistration\/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&amp;eventid=216810&amp;sessionid=1&amp;key=307F479F8129CF698274EF8AB22D34AD&amp;sourcepage=register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Managing Vehicle Complexity through Systems-Driven Product Development<\/A>.\u201d<!--more--><BR \/><BR \/>We&#8217;ve seen automobiles evolve from purely mechanical to electronic with onboard vehicle computer systems that can include up to 10 million lines of code. In the webinar, Christopher Davey, a senior technical leader within the Ford Global Electrical &amp; Electronic Systems Engineering organization (EESE), discussed the transition process and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?Component=63184&amp;ComponentTemplate=1481\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">resulting successes that Ford has seen<\/A> with the implementation of an integrated software system. Dr. Stefan Jockusch, vice president for Mechatronics Process Management at Siemens PLM, discussed the benefits of systems-driven product development.<BR \/><BR \/>If you&#8217;re involved in automotive product development, check out the recorded webinar available for the next couple of months via <a href=\"https:\/\/event.on24.com\/eventRegistration\/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&amp;eventid=216810&amp;sessionid=1&amp;key=307F479F8129CF698274EF8AB22D34AD&amp;sourcepage=register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SAE&#8217;s website<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing complexity was a consistent theme at PLM Connection two weeks ago. We shared with customers ways in which the HD-PLM technology framework could help visualize and make sense of that complexi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}