From hardware-centric to software-driven
Consulting on Electrical and Electronic Development
Delayed maturity levels, high defect rates, sudden problems just before SOP: Electrical and electronic development often lacks control and transparency. KBC strategically structures your processes and supports you, particularly during the transition from a hardware-centric to a software-centric organization: We ensure you achieve your maturity level targets, develop a comprehensive test and validation cascade, and optimize your development environment for efficiency. This enables you to bring products to market on time, within budget, and with the required quality.
Challenges in the Development of Electrical Engineering
The shift from hardware- to software-centric electrical and electronics development is posing an increasing challenge for companies. KBC supports you through this very transformation with an experienced team of consultants: Our roots lie in the automotive industry, which, as one of the most critical and high-performance markets, was affected early on and significantly by the transformation in electronics development. As a result, for two decades we have had a deep understanding of the challenges that are now increasingly affecting industries such as medical technology, aviation, and mechanical and plant engineering.
Our focus is on operational implementation rather than strategy alone: We align your organization and processes to ensure that a functional product is delivered.
Approaches to Software-Centric Electrical and Electronic Development
In addition to helping you achieve your maturity goals, KBC supports you in electrical and electronic developmentâincluding your test and validation cascadeâas well as in restructuring your development environment.
Electrical and Electronic Development by the Numbers
Industries we advise on electronics development
Topics that strengthen your business
Solutions that advance E/E development goals
Task forces set up just before the SOP are not only expensive but also usually avoidable. The key lies in the early stages: aligning processes and organizational structures properly before pressure builds. This must be followed by rigorous goal-oriented management that addresses deviations with a high degree of consistency. As a boutique consulting firm specializing in electrical and electronics development, KBC supports you precisely in this area. At the same time, we examine which non-value-adding activities can be automated: tasks that AI and structured processes can handle should no longer be performed manually by humans.
To develop a product that can hold its own in the market, it helps to take a structured, outside perspective: Where do you stand in relation to market and customer requirements? KBC methodically evaluates benchmarks and also involves suppliersâwho work with multiple customers and can determine what is standard and what is not.
In addition, we assess the value contribution of your features: Which ones are truly necessary? And which ones cost more than they deliver? This allows you to measure and manage your competitiveness in a targeted manner.
If errors occur faster than they can be resolved, it is rarely a capacity issue. More often than not, the root causes lie within the process itself.Â
KBC starts by clarifying the following: Where do duplicates arise that can be filtered out early with AI support? How strict is the prioritization? Are defects assigned to the correct software builds? Itâs worth looking at the root causes here: Catching errors earlier in the development process reduces the overall volumeânot just the current workload.