Daimler TSS Success Story

The Bottom Line

"We were able to achieve an MDA-specific ROI within the first 12 months, and we are convinced that the overall increase in development productivity will reach 30% next year."

Wolfgang Kaefer, ePEP Technology Lead

Model Driven Offshoring
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Customer

DaimlerChrysler TSS

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Industry

IT Services - Automotive

Application

The ePEP project (Electronic Production Planning) is based on DaimlerChrysler's own PAI Framework, a state of the art J2EE Architecture and -Platform. ePEP was designed to replace more than 10 heterogeneous legacy systems. The ePEP system is based on a state-of-the-art, layered Java J2EE architecture. Integration with approximately 12 external systems is done via XML, Messages Queues, and Batch Files.

Benefits

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) optimizes multi-site software development process (Offshoring)
MDA helps to ensure architectural consistency of complex IT system.
15% increase in development productivity in first year
ROI in less than 12 months
Expected total productivity increase of 30% in second year, compared to a non-MDA approach

Project

ePEP streamlines the engineering and manufacturing process of commercial large vehicles, including construction design and production scheduling at difference sites of DaimlerChrysler (Wörth - Germany, Aksaray - Turkey, Sao Bernardo - Brazil).

ePEP leverages the full potential of Model Driven Architecture (MDA)which allows for the efficient mapping between different levels of abstraction in UML models, e.g. from UML business models to UML architectural models. MDA Cartridges automate the mapping from technical UML models to an implementation, e.g. in Java.

The ePEP team has built a number of customized cartridges, which now provide a DaimlerChrysler specific MDA Architecture Blueprint for the PAI Framework.

MDA shifts the emphasis of development projects up to the UML level, and away from low-level coding tasks. In ePEP, the level of automation that could be reached in different areas of the systems ranges from 40% up to 100%.