Thomas Beer

Cross-interface development: The key to a new cockpit design

Traditionally cockpits are developed in parallel: suppliers produce the relevant components according to product specifications and deliver these to the automaker, where individual parts are assembled to make a cockpit. With each order, the parts supplier gains experience, resulting in continuous product enhancement and increasing sophistication until components become technical masterpieces. But what happens when, despite outstanding components, the overall quality of the entire system can no longer be improved? In this case new approaches are required, presented here by Johnson Controls and ThyssenKrupp.