Analytical Software Design Case MagLev Stage Software Project for Philips Applied Technologies
Guy H. Broadfoot, George Kielty · 2005
Product innovation, quality and time to market are key elements in the battle to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. For a growing number of businesses, this means software development. Software is now an essential component embedded in an ever increasing array of products. It has become an important means of realising product innovation and is a key determinant of both product quality and time-to-market. For many businesses, software has become business-critical and software development is a strategic business activity. At the same time, software development continues to suffer from poor predictability. Existing development methods appear to have reached a quality ceiling that incremental improvements in process and technology are unlikely to breach. To break through this ceiling, a different approach is needed. In this paper, we describe how Verum applied Analytical Software Design (ASD), a new approach that applies software engineering mathematics to industrial software development, to develop the software controlling an advanced mechatronics subsystem being developed by Philips Applied Technologies in the Netherlands.