Integrated Project DEPLOY

This chapter introduces the four-year DEPLOY (Industrial Deployment of Advanced System Engineering Methods for High Productivity and Dependability) project to overview the context in which industrial deployment was conducted and explain how it was organised and managed. 2.1 DEPLOY Objectives, Consortium and Outcomes The overall aim of the FP7 (EC Seventh Framework Programme) Integrated Project DEPLOY, run between February 2008 and April 2012 [6], was to make major advances in engineering methods for dependable systems through the deployment of formal engineering methods. The work was driven by the tasks of achieving and evaluating the industrial take-up of the DEPLOY methods and tools, initially in the four sectors which are key to European industry and society. Four leading European companies representing four major sectors: transportation (Siemens Transportation Systems), automotive (Bosch), space (Space Systems Finland) and business information (SAP AG) worked in DEPLOY on deploying advanced engineering approaches to further strengthen their development processes and thus improve competitiveness. The overall aim of DEPLOY was achieved with a coherent integration of scientific research, technology development and industrial deployment of the technology. The complementary expertise and technological bases of the industrial deployment partners and the technology provider partners were combined to achieve a set of challenging scientific and technological objectives. DEPLOY offered a balanced interplay between industrial deployment, scientific research and tool development, where companies in four sectors joined their forces with ten technology providers to meet the goal. The industrial sectors (transportation, automotive, space and business information) comprised a palette of important European base industries of today. Before entering the project the companies possessed different maturity levels when it came to deploying formal approaches. A. Romanovsky (B) Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK e-mail: [email protected] A. Romanovsky, M. Thomas (eds.), Industrial Deployment of System Engineering Methods, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33170-1_2, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 5