QUALITATIVE PROTOTYPING – FAR MORE THAN JUST A TREND.
Digitalisation is revolutionising all industries. It is resulting in new technologies, which in turn generate valuable synergies, new abilities and innovative knowledge that can be used in many other fields and projects within an industrial sector. This valuable digital know-how has long been in use in aerospace engineering, too, where the focus is on virtual reality, augmented reality or mixed reality for simulation in training, but also for development and in production.
Due to the enormous complexity of avionics and the stringent safety standards employed in this field, it is essential that attention should already be paid to compliance with standards and complete documentation in the pre-development phase, to guarantee the quality, safety and reliability of a software system.
This is precisely the approach we take to qualitative prototyping: to this end, EDAG aeromotive GmbH, an EDAG Group subsidiary, uses state-of-the-art development technology in the pre-development phase. This guarantees adherence to all standards, e.g. the DO-178C standard, while still reducing development cycles and cutting costs.
For the project presented in our white paper, we, with a team of specialists, developed prototype applications in the field of augmented reality (AR), and also answered a number of important questions on the subject:- How important are standards in the prototype phase?
- Can a high-quality prototype shorten development processes?
- Can it reduce the overall cost?
- How important are new technologies for the user?