Engineering Integration & Management Services

A single provider of system integration

During the entire development process for a product, we are at your side – even when we are talking about support processes and cross-sectional functions. Our “PMO as a service” advises and supports you on topics of product data and project management, digitalisation and process design, quality and environmental management, among others. Because only with the ideal combination of technology, quality and costs, while considering environmental demands, can innovative, sustainable projects be successfully implemented.

Engineering advice, methods, tools

The Engineering Integration & Management Services consultants head up and support the integration of technical and non-technical content, of the supporting functions and processes across the entire development process and through to the start of serial production.
Our teams manage the development process, reconcile contradictory product objectives, and ensure that client attributes are complied with. Our “PMO as a Service” helps with the developing and launching of efficient tools and methods for managing projects and processes.

Our mission: We offer our customers professional solutions in all transversal functions in product development – so that projects can be implemented successfully and future mobility designed together.

Jörn Thaute, Vice President Operations – Engineering Integration & Management Services

Key strands in our range of services:

Product Data Management

We offer you comprehensive expertise and quality awareness in all aspects of product data management:

PDM (product data management) structure
PDM (product data management) consulting
Parts list (incl. analysis, automation, quality control)
Product detail assembly instructions
Ensuring installation space specifications
Digital mock-up at component and overall vehicle level

Process Design, Digitalization and Tools

Benefit from our expertise in digitalization, process design and tooling:

Process management
Process development (based on ASPICE)
- Process consulting and GAP analyses
- Process specifications for tooling
ALM/PM tooling, tool landscape
Evaluation of ALM tools (e.g. code beamer, Polarion, Atlassian, IBM tools)
- Tools configuration, integration and migration
- Enabling and mentoring
Product ownership and IT project management
Tool concepts
- backlog management and release planning
- User acceptance tests

Project Management / Consulting

We support you with our many years of know-how in:

Project and process management
- Maturity level management
- release management
- change management
- Budget and cost management
- Reporting and committee management
Requirements management
- Development of AM structures/standards
- Definition/specification/review of specifications
- Tool processing (incl. software) and creation of specifications
Consulting
- Scrum & Agile
- Multi-project management and control
- Advice on PM methods

Procurement

Take advantage of our many years of expertise and efficient processes for:

Strategic and operational sourcing
- Budget planning and control
- Cost analysis
- International procurement market analysis
- Make-or-buy analysis / award strategy / transformation
- Operational enquiry/quotation process
- Price negotiations (project / series)
- Order processing
- Tool procurement
Initial sample / prototype procurement
- Supplier management
- Change management
- Escalation management

Overall Vehicle Control

Everything from a single source. We take care of the overall vehicle control for you:

Control of overall vehicle protection incl.

Thermal management, aerodynamics, noise, ground clearance, driving performance and fuel consumption

Complete vehicle verification and validation (V&V)

Test planning and execution (block and department tests)
Pool management, vehicle body and usage planning,
vehicle control,
(overall) vehicle testing

Maturity level and integration management

Committee and error management
Integrated network release planning (iVP)
Scheduling, commissioning tests and VR approvals
Fault/issue management

Homologation and Approval Management

Complete monitoring of type approval procedures for complete vehicles for the EU and international markets
- Monitoring of laws
- Control of type tests
- Data collection
- Plausibility checks
- Documentation for authorities
Enabler for entry into new markets
Optimization of customer processes
Consulting and mentoring
Independent processing
Experts in a global team
Homologation

Quality Management

Quality management during development

Quality project management
Quality management process and engineering planning, advance quality planning (APQP, PPAP, RGA)
Software quality management and eQuality management system
Maturity level management
Sampling tracking & Q releases
Analysis of Q sensors, error correction process, SE/PF teamwork

Risk management and QM methods

FMEA moderation and coordination
QM core tools training and coaching
Six Sigma project support

Integrated management systems & processes

Development and operation of management systems (QMS, EMS, CSMS, SUMS, PCSM)
Process consulting as well as preparation and implementation of audits and assessments

Environmental Management / Sustainability

Safe and sustainable. We take care of all issues related to sustainability:

Life cycle assessment

Data collection and validation
Balancing of product and corporate carbon footprints
Support during the certification process (DIN ISO 14040)

Resource and environmental management

Implementation of environmental management systems and support for the ISO 14001 certification process
Implementation of environmental and social governance (ESG)

Environmentally relevant laws, standards & guidelines