Comprehensive data model
Build traceability across requirements, tests, system design, management and supporting engineering processes.
Automotive engineering & cybersecurity
Drive Automotive Compliance Forward with IBM ELM
Bring threat analysis, requirements, architecture, testing and engineering workflows together. IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) helps automotive teams build traceability and visibility across complex compliance-driven development.
Automotive Engineering LifecycleCONNECTED VIEW
Threat analysisIdentify and assess risks
RequirementsDefine and link work items
ArchitectureModel systems and behaviour
VerificationConnect tests and evidence
Traceability · Reporting · Release readiness
Compliance with connected engineering
Manage complexity across the vehicle development lifecycle
Automotive cybersecurity and functional safety expectations require teams to coordinate engineering activities and demonstrate how decisions, requirements, designs and tests relate to one another.
IBM ELM supports a linked information model that brings industry standards, terminology and engineering work items into a common lifecycle view. Teams can use this structure to improve traceability, identify gaps and understand work-item progress.
- Connect threat analysis, requirements, architecture and testing.
- Establish traceable relationships across engineering work items.
- Review compliance coverage, gaps and project progress through reports.
A lifecycle-oriented view of automotive systems engineering
IBM ELM capabilities
A structured approach to engineering compliance
Use process guidance, linked engineering data and reporting to bring consistency and visibility to automotive development programmes.
Out-of-the-box reporting
Gain an end-to-end project view, detect exceptions in engineering data and review work-item progress.
Model-based systems engineering
Explore system architecture and system behaviour using a best-practice profile as a starting point for MBSE.
Built-in agility
Apply agile methods in a regulated engineering context. The original IBM offering describes support for SAFe 5.0.
Compliance expert content
Use templates and toolkits intended to help streamline Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262, UNECE WP.29/R155 and ISO/SAE 21434 processes.
Customizable and extendable
Start with a lean process configuration and tailor it to the engineering practices and needs of your organisation.
UNECE WP.29 / R155Vehicle cybersecurity management
ISO/SAE 21434Road vehicle cybersecurity engineering
ISO 26262Functional safety
Automotive SPICEProcess assessment model
Standards are listed as areas addressed by the original page's IBM ELM offering description. Tooling supports engineering process management; it does not by itself certify an organisation or guarantee regulatory compliance. Confirm current product scope and standards versions with IBM before procurement.
How the lifecycle connects
From risk analysis to release visibility
A connected process helps engineering teams understand relationships and spot missing links across development work.
Threat analysis
Perform TARA activities to assess cybersecurity threats and risks.
Requirements
Capture requirements and connect them to relevant engineering work.
Architecture
Relate system design and architecture to requirements and risks.
Testing
Link verification activities and test evidence to defined requirements.
Reporting
Review traceability gaps, coverage and work-item progress.
Visibility into engineering data, traceability and progress
Visibility for engineering leaders
Understand compliance status and project readiness
When engineering information is linked, teams can generate reports that highlight coverage and missing relationships. This makes it easier to identify where work remains and where traceability needs attention.
Use project-wide reporting to support reviews, coordinate teams and make progress more visible as development moves forward.
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