Seamless HMI Engineering and Collaboration with Bosch LeapX

HMI projects are one of the difficult and complex pain areas for the OEMs and suppliers to cope with because of the high turnaround time to realize frequent changes, maintenance costs, requirements gaps, defects, and mismatch in stakeholder expectations and complex HMI variants management.

Let’s take a quick look at some of the problems currently faced in HMI development:

Taking these issues into consideration, Bosch leveraged its expertise to develop LeapX, a next-generation cloud-based platform for transparent and collaborative HMI Software engineering. LeapX enables customers to manage HMI requirements assets and specifications on the cloud while allowing seamless collaboration between Automotive OEMs and suppliers like designers, translators, developers and testers. As a result, LeapX addresses many of the strategic and evolving needs faced by automotive OEMs and suppliers.

Without having to change or move away from the tool of their choice, LeapX enables OEMs to automate and streamline their HMI activities and procedures. As a result, LeapX increases reusability and cuts down on overall HMI Software engineering time for quicker releases by seamlessly integrating all stakeholders, processes and tools on a single platform.

LeapX supports global teams that utilize various tools by streamlining the HMI development process and managing UX designs, requirements, assets & simulations in the cloud by offering workflow management features and third-party tool integrations/plugins.

It leverages the benefits of cloud to provide a single platform where several frequently used or popular HMI tools are integrated, thus giving OEMs the flexibility to select the tools of their choice. All stakeholders can easily work and collaborate on the HMI project directly on the cloud without having to install each tool locally.

Many of the strategic and evolving needs of automotive OEMs are addressed by LeapX, such as:

• HMI development effort reduced by 25%
• Time to market shortened by 20%
• Increased reusability and faster releases
• Seamless collaboration between designers, developers, testers & translators across the globe, anytime
• Cloud-based granular access control with no local software installation required
• Reduced manual coordination work
• Streamlined and automated HMI processes without migrating away from legacy tools
• Seamless vendor management (Design Agencies, Translators, Integrators and Testing Teams)
• AI-assisted translations in 40 languages with pixel perfect text fitment validation in real time
• Early-stage detection and rectification of defects
• Effortless management of rapidly changing HMI requirements and building prototypes, quickly

Intuitive UX and HMI lie at the heart of great customer experience and the automotive ecosystem is at the cutting-edge of delivering it. As the industry evolves together towards this, we at Bosch address a large part of the growing needs that automotive OEMs and suppliers have for transparent, collaborative, and seamless HMI Software engineering to define the in-vehicle experiences of the future.