Collaborative engineering of embedded systems is a fact of life. Currently there is no way back for companies anymore. The trend is that the amount of collaboration continues to increase. However, industry suffers from a rapidly decreasing productivity as a consequence.

The trend for collaboration cannot be reversed. The trend of productivity decrease can. PRISMA will contribute by adding industrial working methods and technologies to ensure that productivity will be the main result from collaboration. The PRISMA project will build further upon the MERLIN results.

MERLIN has achieved many positive effects and additions to collaborative development. However, it is expected that the improvement of collaborative development will be a topic of attention for at least the next decade. The PRISMA project will contribute to that quest. It will use the MERLIN results and bring them further with a dedicated focus on productivity increase and domain specific tuning.