On the way to the cyber physical car (CPC)

The worldwide car industry is perhaps facing the most exciting time period ever. Driven by new safety and environmental standards and above all supported by a completely new thinking about mobility systems in general the car industries has to and will change in the next 10 to 20 years. Digitalization and interconnectivity together with an electrified drivetrain leads to new product architectures and therefore opens new ways for manufacturing of these products. New approaches for the product, the car, itself but as well as for the manufacturing system are needed. Coming from concepts like the IoT (Internet of things) in the US or the ""Industrie 4.0"" the car will become a smart, highly integrated digital platform in the overall mobility systems. The car itself will be seamlessly integrated in the mobility ecosystem and will optimize the way of traveling from A to B accordingly. This paper presents a theoretical approach for a ""Cyber Physical Car"". The concept is described on a theoretical level. The transition of the, here described as ""mechatronic car"" to a ""cyber physical car"" is discussed and examples for needed subcomponents are shown.