As a principal architect of UL Solutions’ strategic vision for mobility and critical systems, Erich Meier leverages his extensive software and systems development background to spearhead efforts supporting the global transition to more sustainable and safer transportation. His expertise is instrumental in shaping processes and practices that enhance product quality and performance of complex software and systems, helping to ensure that UL Solutions remains at the forefront of industry innovation. Erich’s work bridges the gap between business agility and compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
Critical Software-Intensive Systems
Software Intensive Systems (SIS) are critical in applications that require a high level of reliability, safety and security. These can include autonomous vehicles that operate in a smart mobility ecosystem, interconnected medical devices or large-scale aerospace control and defense systems. Erich has helped customers combine software engineering techniques with other disciplines like hardware, and mechanical and systems engineering to reliably achieve the highest quality possible for safety-critical systems while efficiently meeting regulatory requirements.
For more than two decades, Erich has advised customers worldwide in industries such as automotive, aerospace, defense, railway and medical device. His goal is to help customers manage the complexity and dynamics of critical software-intensive systems.
Process excellence
Successful organizations that design, develop and operate critical software-intensive systems must innovate quickly while adhering to safety, security and quality standards and regulations. To do so, effective and efficient processes are critical. As the mastermind behind the globally used Stages process management software, Erich has advocated for process excellence and advised leading companies in process strategy, architecture and organization. At the core of the Stages system, Erich designed a flexible metamodel optimized for knowledge-centric processes, combining value stream mapping and process modeling into a single-model approach. As an early adopter of compliance management techniques such as model-to-model mappings, Erich has helped position Stages as a leader in efficiently helping engineering processes meet industry standards and regulations.
“A company’s products, the people that develop them and the processes they apply must be in harmony.” – Erich Meier
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