High ambition for functional safety and increasing networking occupy the current world of automation
The world of automation is becoming increasingly networked and must solve ever more complex tasks. This is accompanied by a rapid growth of software components in our customers’ solutions, regardless of whether they deal with intelligent drives, pumps, sensors, operation and monitoring or industrial communication.
In many applications, there are high requirements for functional safety, as described in IEC 61508, for example.
Complex control algorithms, fast and secure communication as well as variants must be implemented quickly and maintainably. Trends such as Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0) describe the path to networking at all levels. This networking results in new requirements for the IT security of embedded systems.
This trend is accelerated by the availability of 5G, the possibilities of AI and the expectations of the interaction of a wide variety of components in a large Internet of Things (IoT).
Maintainability, extensibility and comprehensibility of the software are an elementary prerequisite for mastering the requirements described above. In addition to the inevitable growth due to the required functionality, unnecessary complexity must be avoided at all costs.
Axivion Suite helps you to stop this software erosion.
Compliance with coding guidelines such as MISRA or AUTOSAR C++14 or metrics are continuously monitored and trends in inner software quality are recorded.
With architecture analysis, you can monitor compliance with your software architecture and additionally define safety or security architectures and monitor their compliance as well.
Requirements from safety standards such as IEC 61508 are fulfilled by Axivion Suite and confidence in the tests in your environment can be guaranteed at all times with the Tool Qualification Kit.
Axivion Suite is available both on the developer’s workstation and in the CI / DevOps pipeline on the build server or in the cloud. This makes Axivion Suite part of your CI/CD strategy and quality assurance.
The key factor for us is that the Axivion Suite has a high level of adaptability unsurpassed by any other tool suite. That is the only way we can continue meeting our own high quality standards for our intelligent sensors in an increasingly digitalised industrial environment.
Kai Siegwart, Competence Center Software, Software Quality Assurance,
Leuze electronic GmbH & Co. KG
Reference customers from the field of automation
Success Stories
A selection of Success Stories in Automation
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„We exhaustively evaluated a whole range of analysis tools. The Axivion Suite has impressed us during our daily development work due to its comprehensive open functions which could readily be adapted to our needs. On top of this we benefit from the practical support provided by Axivion’s professional services team, who are there to help us during every phase of our software quality assurance.“
Dr. Stefan Staudt, Software Quality Manager, TRUMPF
„A huge amount of specialist expertise has gone into our grinding software. We’ve put a lot of effort and passion into developing it, in particular its architecture and we are continuously adding further innovative features. From now on, our specialist grinding expertise will enjoy additional protection from the Axivion Suite.“
Christian Küster, Commercial Manager, Haas Schleifmaschinen GmbH
„Using Axivion Suite has brought us two outstanding benefits: during its introduction, our developers grappled intensively with the architecture, which has grown up over a period of years, and we can now optimize the code in a targeted way, based on findings from the various sprints.“
Rainer Thieringer, Head of Software Development Department, TRUMPF Laser
„The continuous architecture check ensures that we always have a reliable basis for discussion for architecture decisions. This enables us to focus on the important questions of what is a good architecture for our products.“
Dr. Tobias Frank, Head of Safety & Configuration, PHOENIX CONTACT Software GmbH
“From a technical perspective, the Axivion Suite won us over with all of its functions for automated code and architecture verification. However, it was the excellent support from the Axivion Professional Services Team that proved to be the key to the high level of acceptance among developers and the fast and highly productive results: the way the new tool suite was rolled out and integrated into our workflows plus the highly motivating training for everyone involved have made the suite a complete success.”
Jan Schröder, Team Leader for Software Architecture and Modules,
Jungheinrich Norderstedt AG & Co. KG
„The Axivion Suite is another crucial building block for quality assurance in our firmware development, particularly in terms of the increasingly strict safety and security requirements within an industrial environment.“
Christoph Kuner, M.Sc., FS Director, TR-Electronic GmbH
„The key factor for us is that the Axivion Suite has a high level of adaptability unsurpassed by any other tool suite. That is the only way we can continue meeting our own high quality standards for our intelligent sensors in an increasingly digitalised industrial environment.“
Kai Siegwart, Competence Center Software, Software Quality Assurance,
Leuze electronic GmbH & Co. KG
„We all agree that the Axivion Suite is an important module for projects with long life cycles. In future, we will use it in all of our new software projects.“
Detlev Kuschke, Executive Vice President, PHOENIX CONTACT Software GmbH