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Chapter 4
Case Studies of
COSMIC Usage and
Benefits in Industry
New or next generations of functional size measurement methods must validate
their appropriateness and applicability in practice. e user should identify the
benets using the new approaches.
Figure4.1 shows the general methodologies available to validate (new or inno-
vative) functional size measurement methods.
e rst part of this chapter by Ulrich Schweikl, Stefan Weber, Erik Foltin,
and Reiner Dumke is based on experience gained in the Siemens AT powertrain
environment. It is shown that the FFP technique is applicable to other Siemens
applicat ...