IPD Applications In The Development Of Embedded Systems

Along with the information technology development since 1990s, embedded system technology has been widely applied in people's daily life, scientific research, and many industry applications such as financial service technology. Embedded system products usually have complicated customization requirements and post-product application development. In the mean time, these products have high level requirements for the time-to-market development, product quality, and product total cost control. The product development team under functional base organization usually use serial process model in product development activities, which causes many problems such as product re-development and the delay for the time-to-market requirement. This traditional development model is not suitable for embedded system product implementation in today's competitive market.Integrated Product Development (IPD) has broken through the traditional serial product development (SPD) model. A PDT is formed with multiple technology groups according to the system theory, which re-organizes the development process and introduces concurrent design from a higher level system point of view. Its major difference comparing with traditional SPD is that IPD treats all development activities as a whole and integrated process. This integrated model can improve the implementation success rate from the whole system point of view in embedded system product development such as POS terminal product.This thesis analysis the current new-product development model, describes the specialization of embedded system product and current product implementation activities in the POS terminal development process in NL Company. This thesis then points out the exist problems, such as the weakness in product industrialization, poor customer requirement management, and the loosing control of time frame in POS terminal development process. According to the up-to-date optimization development management tools and theory in information technology product development, this thesis introduces the Integrated Product Development model to the POS terminal implementation process, re-design the customer requirement management and conform process, implements the three-level process standard in ISO9001 acrossmultiple functional organizations, optimize the development process and set up 5 design review, carry out working mode in which engineering and manufacture opinion can be studied early. After that, this thesis analysis two kinds of functional PDT, organization details, performance evaluation methodology, and the integrated information environment and their impact on IPD implementation. This thesis finalizes with the comparing results of two different development models for POS terminal. It concludes that IPD can improve the time-to-market criteria and lower the total cost of product development.