Neo4j GraphTour 2019 - Customer Presentation: Build a car with Graphs, Fabien Batejat, Graph Technology Specialist, Volvo Cars

1. Build a Car with Graphs
G R A P H D A T A M A N A G E M E N T
A P P L I E D T O P R O D U C T D E V E L O P M E N T

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The challenges of complex product development

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Complex Product?
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10.000
30.000
1.000.000

4. Today

5. 5
Product evolution
after original sale
... Unknowns
Multiple brands
multiple segments
System of systems Crowd sourced data Machine learning
Personalization
Third party access
Autonomy
AutonomyElectrification
Electrification
Connectivity
Connectivity
Sharing
Sharing
Decreasing time to market
On the horizon

6. Always more data
Always more Silos

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Highly integrated
Complex

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How will graphs help?

9. Interface
Reveal Dependencies
Knowledge Mining
Modelling Platform
Analytics

10. Knowledge
Graph
Enhanced
Knowledge Graph
ML
ML to enhance Knowledge Graph Knowledge Graph to train ML neural network
Graph ML
AI & Knowledge Graphs

11. Volvo Cars Graph Intelligence Platform
Knowledge Graph
Graph Connector
Application Connector
User Management
Data Visualization
Data Manipulation
DataAnalysis&AI
...
UNIFY
UNIFY

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System Engineering
@ Volvo Cars with Graphs

13. Functional Disposition
”Every system component is
connected to the customer
needs instead of mere
engineering performance
cursors”
Connecting Systems Engineering and Human Factors through MBSE
Nilsson, Robert - Volvo Cars Corporation
Bligård, Lars-Ola - Chalmers University of Technology
On-board Off-board
Temperature
Management
Air flow
Management
Climate
Comfort
Context
Customer
Function
Product
Function
NEEDS
to affect air flow

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15. •Function Owners
The work sociogram
•System Design Analysts
DSM analytics
•Project Leaders
Support to project planning
The Demo – Use-Cases

16. DSM = adjacency matrix in graph theory
System design analysis & project planning
Analytics:
• Feedbacks
• Clusters
• Sequencing
DSM (Design Structure Matrix) Analytics
Original relation matrix Triangular – Feedbacks
Sequence
2 relations involved in loops
Block-diagonal - Clusters
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3 decoupled subsystems

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