Eyecatcher Agenda

Agenda

2023

Agenda 2023, Day 1

08:50

Welcome speech by Georg Sterler

Georg Sterler
Former Head of Wire Harness System Development,
AUDI AG

09:00

Automotive OS Reloaded – Refocusing and Reality Check

Dr. Christof Horn
Head of Industry X Automotive Europe,
Umlaut – part of Accenture

  • Tectonic shifts: The automotive landscape is changing fast
  • Breaking the Gordian Knot for scalable SW platforms
  • Imperatives for 2023 and beyond
09:30

Future EDS Trends of a Premium-OEM

  • Evolution and outlook of the trends driving and charging
  • Requirements for components, parts, sub-systems for future concepts
  • Trend efficiency: optimizing of vehicle energy flow
10:00

Power Supply and Network Communication Simulations as Tools to Evaluate and Optimize Future E/E-Architectures

  • Communication network technologies and requirements in future E/E-architectures
  • Safe supply and voltage stability requirements in future E/E-architectures
  • Outlook: Coupling of communication network and power supply simulations

Dr. Felix Hoos
Senior Manager System Engineering Powernet,
Robert Bosch GmbH

10:30
Kaffee

Coffee break at the exhibition hall

11:00

E/E Development Cycles vs. Vehicle Life Cycles

Jan Rottberg
Module Team Leader,
BMW Group

  • E/E development cycles are shorter than vehicle life cycles
  • Requirement for new wiring harness system architectures
  • Development of a backwards compatible wiring harness system in the LCI of a current derivative family
11:30

Continuous, Digital 3D Master Wiring Harness Development Process – Using the Example of a Series Project

Dr. Wolfgang Langhoff
Director,
Kromberg & Schubert Automotive GmbH & Co. KG

12:00

How to Convert Sustainability Targets into Wire Harness Components?

  • Translating an SBTi commitment into a company strategy
  • Practical example of a successful design conversion
  • Digitalisation and innovation

Dr. Isabell Buresch
Fellow,
TE Connectivity

Jan Van Cauwenberge
Senior Manager Platform and Sustainability Engineering,
TE Connectivity

12:30
Essen

Lunch break & networking at the exhibition hall

14:00

Functional Safety in Wiring Harnesses – From Requirements to Proof of Reliability

  • Definition and motivation of functional safety
  • Proof of compliance with ISO26262 requirements in wiring harnesses
  • Outlook and fields of action

Frank Zellmann
Functional Safety Manager Physical Harnesses,
AUDI AG

14:30

Charging Systems of the Future – “Charge like Refuel”

Thomas Weng
Product Line Manager Charging Systems,
DRÄXLMAIER

  • Major trends
  • Modular charging system
  • Automation and systems engineering
15:00

Reliability & Validation of Automotive Connectors

Dr. Ahmed Abou Gharam
Principal Engineer,
Molex

  • Current reliability calculation methods & challenges
  • Failure in Time (FIT) & ASIL rating
  • Design for reliability approach
15:30

Electrical Interface Management for EV Charging Inlet Harnesses

APTIV

16:00
Kaffee

Coffee break at the exhibition hall

16:30

Toolchain, VEC and Database: Push the Button for the Wiring Harness Simulation

  • VEC provides complete wiring harness data
  • Database containing generic simulation models has to be established
  • Powerful toolchain allows great performance

Dr. Martin Döring
Head of Innovations for Wiring Harness Systems,
Volkswagen AG

Dr. Tobias Carsten Müller
Head of VOBES, Libraries and System Schematics,
Volkswagen AG

17:00

Evolutionary E/E Architectures Beyond Centralization & Impact on Zonal Controllers

Francesco Petruzziello
Senior Manager, EMEA Marketing Automotive Processors,
ST Microelectronics

  • Automotive Megatrends and impact on E/E Architecture: from distributed, to domain, to hybrid/Centralized to integrated/centralized
  • This evolution aims at full zonalization which might mean to go from centralization to de-centralization
  • Potential impact on wire harness and board network of the different concepts
17:30

The Smart Way to a Zonal Wiring Harness

  • Product solutions for zonal architecture from 10 Mbit/s to multi Gbit/s
  • High-speed data links with a focus on FuSi und ADAS

Dr. Gunnar Armbrecht
Director R&D, Head of Automotive R&D,
Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG

Sebastian Mysyk
Director Productmanagement Data Connector,
Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG

18:00

End of first conference day

19:00

Get-together at the Reithaus

Reithaus in Ludwigsburg