Design Rules Manual for Volvo Multiplex Toolbox
Pohjola, Jorma (2019)
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019121627003
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019121627003
Tiivistelmä
In modern world, networking and data sharing enable corporations to spread out design work. The creative work in designing new products, such as a bus, can be spread between many teams. In some cases, these teams, and in fact members of a team, might be separated by continents. It is possible for one to have close working relations with people that they have never met in person.
In this kind of environment, standardization of practices and uniformity of output is more important than ever. To this end, multinational entities create manuals and rules to make it easier for workers around the globe to keep their creations such that others can easily understand them.
Volvo Multiplex Toolbox, abbreviated VMT, is a design tool suite used by Volvo Bus Corporation in making the software packages that control behavior of the bus body systems. This software package combines needed tools to create, modify and share different software components used for making software packages that are then installed in completed vehicle. The software is created using Functional Block Diagram-language, a graphical logic programming language.
In this thesis, a rules manual was created, and it works both as introduction for new employee on how different parts of VMT work and creates ground rules on how to design new body software. Much importance is placed on creating rules for the graphical look of the final code, and uniform naming policies on different signals, components and parts.
In this kind of environment, standardization of practices and uniformity of output is more important than ever. To this end, multinational entities create manuals and rules to make it easier for workers around the globe to keep their creations such that others can easily understand them.
Volvo Multiplex Toolbox, abbreviated VMT, is a design tool suite used by Volvo Bus Corporation in making the software packages that control behavior of the bus body systems. This software package combines needed tools to create, modify and share different software components used for making software packages that are then installed in completed vehicle. The software is created using Functional Block Diagram-language, a graphical logic programming language.
In this thesis, a rules manual was created, and it works both as introduction for new employee on how different parts of VMT work and creates ground rules on how to design new body software. Much importance is placed on creating rules for the graphical look of the final code, and uniform naming policies on different signals, components and parts.