  Deficit and redundancies in existing automotive product development hinder a
systems engineering based development. In this paper we discuss a methodical
procedure to eliminate deficits in the current product development and in turn
to enable the introduction of a new systems engineering based development
methodology. As the core part of our approach, we discuss how to transform an
opaque heterogeneous product development to a homogenous consistent product
development taking into account existing disciplines. Our approach paves the
way to achieve a process structure that is more amenable to verification and
validation. We show the effectiveness of our proposed solution approach on an
automotive use case.
