Model Based Design and Digitalization

by Chad Kymal published on November 10, 2023

The business environment has changed in the last 20 years while organizations have not. In most of the companies Omnex works with employees are running the business with email, spreadsheets and one point solutions. This has to change. Why? New Product Development now connects up the system, sub system, hardware, software and supply chain via requirements that flow down and testing that flow up. Design needs to link with manufacturing passing the requirements to the PFMEA and control plans. New Product development requires connected audit software, problem resolution software, requirements software, configuration software, testing software, FMEA software, and much more.

Does C Suite and Senior Leadership have knowledge of the challenges their Teams are facing without interconnectedness and AI/Machine learning to support the engineering teams? This is the culture change that needs to happen for Digitalization to be successful.

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Author

Chad Kymal

Chad Kymal is the CTO and Founder of Omnex Inc. He is the author of seven books and more than 100 papers including several on integrated management systems. Chad is currently on the writing committees for several standards including TC 22/ SC 32/WG 8 for ISO 26262 (Functional Safety), ISO/TC 176 for ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management), ISO/TC 207 for ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management), and PC283 for ISO 45001 (Health and Safety Management Systems). He founded and was the CEO of an Automotive registrar for over 10 years and is familiar with conducting audits, being witnessed for audits, and also evaluating auditors and assessors. He authored and teaches a course for 3rd Party Auditors for Automotive Registrars on behalf of International Automotive Certification Bodies Association (IACBA). This course explains how 3rd Party Auditors audit IATF 16949 in an environment that includes ASPICE, Functional Safety and Product Cybersecurity. He is currently rolling out the course to global 3rd Party Auditors for IATF 16949. Chad has spent over 20 years in system, hardware and software development in various capacities. He assesses and works in automotive system, hardware and software for Agile, ASPICE, and Functional Safety ISO 26262. Chad is also currently an intacsTM certified Principal Assessor for Automotive SPICE.