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Travel, travel, travel and… my EW 2019 Presentation

April 11, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Back in the air

The travel continues but hey… I’m the traveling modeler…. Last week I had an appointment in France but close to Switzerland so I took the plane to Geneva again.
As usual the moment of booking is mostly right before the mail or call with the question if you could also show up somewhere else.
Flexible as I am, I always try to arrange that. This was not so easy… I had to be in the south of Germany (Rietheim) and I was in France (Cluses). On the map that was 225km. Via the road it turned out to be almost 500…. The Swiss have these “Mountains” that really take in a lot of space…
But I organize all of it and so I took the train to Schiphol (My second home) and then the plane to Geneva. Unfortunately (also as usual) flights were cancelled and I was rebooked to another flight via Paris. Via CdG, not really my favorite airport (I try to be polite)
CdG lived up to its reputation… although I was only a few meters away from the gate of my connections flight I had to take a detour to go through the pass control… ( What happened to Schengen?) But I made it in time to the connecting flight (I could even drink coffee in the lounge.)

Platinum

Yes. The lounge… since recently KLM has handed me my platinum card. I crossed 300XP within one year. (Yes KLM no longer has miles… you earn XP when you fly, like in Pokémon Go)
This makes the traveling life much more easy and comfortable. And a comfortable place to write BLOg entries…

Snow!

Yep… Snow. And a lot. After flying the second leg of the trip to Genève, I picked up my rental car and drove out of the parking lot and asked myself: What is this white stuff falling from the sky??
It was snowing. I did not expect that. Luckily Hertz was so friendly to rent me a BMW 120d xDrive. (4-wheel Drive ) with decent wintertyres. That helped. But is was quite a drive. So finally I arrived at the hotel that luckily had parking places. And (what I first noticed in the morning, a Skipass machine… I was in a ski area….

Switzerland

the next day, after a good day at the customer I drove to Rietheim in south-Germany. That was a seriously long drive. Through a lot of snow.. And again arriving in the hotel at 10pm… After the customer visit the next day I had to drive almost the same distance back. Not as far because I had a hotel room close to the airport. The next day I returned the car and flew back without trouble.

Embedded World 2019

I have written about that already: EW 2019, we had a booth there but I also had a presentation! Not entirely about Rhapsody but about SECollab, also interesting enough! Here is the link to it: video, it is in English.

That was it! Happy modeling with Rhapsody!

Walter van der Heiden (wvdheiden@willert.de)

Upper view over the city of Nurnberg dominated by the two towers of St. Lorenz medieval church

EW 2019

February 28, 2019 / / 1 Comment

Introduction

And… it is time for the yearly “High School Trip” for grown-ups: The Embedded World. We used to be there every year. Even since my Tasking days I have visited the EW (First time in 1998 if I’m not mistaken)
Since I am at Willert in 2001 we had a booth (together with Easycode, Microconsult, and in the beginning, Keil ( Before they were taken over by ARM)
We gave up in 2014 but we returned in a smaller way in 2016 and 2017 together with LieberLieber (& Sparx Europe) In 2018 we skipped again but we decided to give it a try again with a new concept together with our Merge Partner Sodius and with OOSE. 
So we have a booth again. Hall 4-150.

EW

The Embedded world is a 3-day fair all about embedded. Lots of exhibitors in Software and Hardware. Lots of people I know and sometimes haven’t met in years. After 3 days you are really really tired from standing and talking all day and part of the evening.
Also, of course, we are traveling to Nürnberg on Monday, for me that means travel to Bückeburg on Sunday evening… Then we built up the booth, most of it is done by a company that builds up the booth but we have to install some stuff ourselves.
We are always in the same hotel… it has changed ownership a couple of times but we are still there, not because of the great rooms (they are not great… they are OK.) but because it is quite near the fair and because of the great steaks they serve there. And… no… i will not tell you where it is 😉
The very nice thing is that the embedded scene is quite small so you know lots of people there. People change jobs so sometimes they work somewhere else (Like Emmanuel, he worked for us years ago, he has built the Target Debugger together with Alberic)

Stress

Then 3 days of stress. 3 presentations in the forum in Hall 2, and speaking with (potential) customers and giving demo’s. At night visit partners and then to the hotel, eat a steak and sleep.
After 3 days my feet hurt and then at 17h the gong sounds and we can pack the car and drive back to Bückeburg. Where we will arrive in the middle of the night… But it was all worth it. We’ll be back!

 

 

So that was it for today, I spoke with a lot of potential new Rhapsody customers!

Happy modeling with Rhapsody ( wvdheiden@willert.de )

 

Back in Hyderabad, India

February 14, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Introduction

Sorry, hardly time to write these days. We are having long days to use the week as effectively as possible. And then there is the time difference… If I am finally done working the US is just waking up and full of energy looking at projects.. My home city is preparing for dinner… But lets not complain. I will write more about India later, first I want to write something about the (near) future!

Embedded World

We are back at the Embedded World!! Yes finally. Not as big as before, we don’t see the point in having a huge booth anymore, a small one will do as well. We cooperate as before but now with OOSE (and with Sodius, of course)!
The Embedded World will be in the “Messe Nürnberg” from February 26-28. We are in Hall 4, Booth 4-150. We have Coffee….;-)

The motto will be:

EEE

(Engineering Efficiency Empowerment by seamless integration of Process, Methods and Tools)

The ability to collaborate across disciplines is the key success factor in product development. In today’s engineering processes we see a multitude of heterogeneous systems, which should fulfill the demand for integrated systems. We use requirements management tools, ALM / CLM / PLM solutions, modeling tools, department-specific tools, quality analyzers, just to name a few. All equipped with interfaces for integration or collaboration with other tools. Nevertheless, it is always a challenge to pass data loss-free from one discipline to the next. It is even more difficult when data is to be exchanged across company boundaries. Because often only a filtered subset of data is exchanged, or different standards or tool versions are maintained.

Willert, oose and Sodius cooperate with the objective to support you in the optimization of your processes and engineering methods and to ensure a valid data flow between the departments. Willert contributes its expertise in embedded and systems engineering. oose contributes its expertise in process and method consulting. And with SECollab, Sodius offers a tool for visualizing and processing engineering data from a wide variety of tools and disciplines.

Our Offer

On our booth on the Embedded World in Nürnberg we offer you a free, 30 minutes analysis and evaluation session of your current situation at our stand and give suggestions for improvement directly.

Use the expertise of Andreas Willert and Tim Weilkiens at our booth Hall 4 – 150 on 26. – 28.02. in Nuremberg. A maximum of 8 slots are available per day. If you want to be sure of getting a slot, make an appointment before the fair with Mrs. Willert: swillert@willert.de (Tell her I sent you…)

Of course I will be there to answer Rhapsody questions live!

We will gladly send you an admission voucher for the fair. (Sorry, the pictures are in german, they should be understandable. When I have the source I will translate them)

1st step: rough process definition

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2nd step: Precise definition of the work steps

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Our lectures in the forum at Embedded World (Hall 2 – Booth 510)

Efficiency in engineering through seamlessly integrated processes and tools

Andreas Willert and Tim Weilkiens in German – 26.02. / 11.30 – 28.02. / 11.00 clock

A consistent environment reduces the obstacles on the way of developing artifacts from idea to product. Organizational, methodical and technical process breaks require more effort and at the same time lead to information losses and increased risk. We will show you how to develop benefit-oriented process steps and how to derive and implement the necessary seamless integration of tools.

 

Modeling the “Standards” Way

Walter van der Heiden in English – 27.02. / 10:00

In various standards we can observe common themes of abstraction, specialization, refinement and relationship (traceability). Aligning the value of these standards and easing the adoption is the most effective way to improve and realize success in an organization. We have applied a SysML for Systems Engineering, AUTOSAR for Vehicle Design and Software Architecture, and UML for Software Design and Implementation. Using high quality UML tools and simply targeted bridges, engineers can focus on their designs and models for developing their solutions. We want to demonstrate SysML models that transition to AUTOSAR designs, that are moved to implementation designs (in UML or Simulink), and finally code generation. All the while maintaining simple bidirectional traceability and design artifacts demanded by ASPICE.

 

That’s it, Happy Modeling with Rhapsody!

Walter van der Heiden (wvdheiden@willert.de)

 

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