The high-tech equipment industry faces growing system complexity driven by market demands for functionality, customization, autonomy, security, sustainability, and emerging technologies like AI. This complexity impacts all development phases - from architecting to implementation, verification, and evolution - as well as the entire lifecycle, including usage and disposal. Poor complexity management risks errors, delays, and cost overruns, threatening the Dutch industry’s global leadership and earning capacity.
A shortage of skilled engineers further amplifies the challenge, requiring a major productivity boost through new methodologies that guide, automate, and optimize system design and maintenance.
We invite contributions addressing challenges in engineering cyber-physical systems, including:
- System architecting: Designing systems to meet expanding demands and technology choices.
- System dependability: Ensuring availability, reliability, and maintainability.
- System evolvability: Supporting efficient changes and extending product lifespan.
- System context: Using adaptive design, simulation, diagnostics, and digital twins.
- System performance: Modeling, analysis, optimization, and verification for non-functional requirements.
For more information on the TNO-ESI contribution please contact Nan Yang or Dennis Hendriks.
