Prof. Manfred Reichert and the DBIS Institute have started a cooperation with the Software Engineering Group (head: Prof. Roy Oberhauser) from the Aalen University of Applied Sciences. Within the Q-Advice project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) from 2009 – 2012, the partners target at new concepts, methods and tools enabling process-aware, automated software engineering (SE) and fostering software quality management. Further partners contributing in this research project are Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH and FNT GmbH (Facility Network Technology). – A powerful, process-aware SE infrastructure will be developed based on the AristaFlow BPM Suite.