Case Study: Lear Corporation delivers high-quality body control electronics 40% faster with MathWorks Model-Based Design

Lear Delivers Quality Body Control Electronics Faster Using Model-Based Design

Lear Corporation needed to design, verify, and implement increasingly complex automotive body control electronics (BCMs) while avoiding ambiguous requirements, missed deadlines, and quality issues. To address this challenge, Lear adopted MathWorks’ Model-Based Design workflow, using MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow and associated products to create executable models and support early verification.

Using MathWorks tools, Lear developed and virtually integrated component models, ran simulation plus SIL and HIL testing, generated production code with Embedded Coder, and automated test-vector and result analysis with MATLAB scripts. The MathWorks-based approach validated more than 95% of requirements before implementation (vs. ~30% previously), cut development time by about 40%, produced roughly 700,000 lines of generated code, and resulted in zero warranty issues after 12 months of production.

Lear Corporation

Jason Bauman

Supervisor, Systems Engineering