BigLever Customer Case Studies
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin's Missions Systems and Sensors (LM MS2) Division recently implemented a multi-year Common Product Line engineering initiative to reduce the time, cost and effort required to create, deliver and maintain products. To meet these objectives, LM MS2 established a systems and software product line for its Navy ship systems using the BigLever Gears solution.
General Motors
In light of new economic realities, and increased engineering complexity due to the introduction of hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles, automotive companies need to realize new levels of efficiency and quality from their engineering tools and processes. General Motors is enhancing its systems and software product line engineering to capitalize on the latest PLE advances. The company is leveraging PLE and BigLever Software Gears to engineer and automatically assemble systems and software assets for different vehicle configurations from a high-level Bill of Features™, rather than manual assembly of a low-level bill of materials.
General Dynamics
Working in collaboration with the General Dynamics C4 Systems Division, BigLever is providing new generation systems and software engineering capabilities for the execution of a five-year, $200 million contract for the U.S. Army's Consolidated Product Line Management (CPM) Program. The CPM Program will improve the Army's ability to consolidate and efficiently manage the diverse elements of its live combat training system product lines.
- Case Study: Employing the Second Generation Software Product-line for Live Training Transformation (I/ITSEC 2011)
- Austin Business Journal article
- Press release
Ikerlan-IK4 and Alstom
Today's wind turbines feature electronic sensors and sophisticated software that optimize performance based on wind direction and speed, temperature and other factors. Ikerlan and Alstom adopted BigLever's Gears PLE Lifecycle Framework and 3-Tiered Methodology to create, maintain and evolve the software that control the turbines and their interconnected communications systems.
HomeAway
To meet the company's aggressive growth goals, HomeAway transitioned to PLE practice using the BigLever Gears solution and 3-Tiered Methodology. With this new PLE approach, HomeAway's development team has deployed new site products with significantly less time and effort, enabling the company to target new market segments faster, more efficiently and with greater profitability. HomeAway is an inductee into the Software Product Line Hall of Fame.
- Case study: HomeAway's Transition to Software Product Line Practice: Engineering and Business Results in 60 Days
- Press release
Other Customer Case Studies
LSI Logic, Engenio Storage Group, by Dr. Charles W. Krueger, June 2005
Product Line Agility in the Face of Turbulence: The Salion Success Story, by Ross Buhrdorf and Dale Churchett, April 2004
Data from Salion's Software Product Line Initiative, by Dr. Charles W. Krueger, July 2002