EDAG Tech Insights (9)

Electrification of Caravans - will motorhomes soon be quiet and environmentally friendly?

What do you think of when you hear the term caravanning? Freedom? Nature? Or deceleration? Have you ever thought of eMobility or alternative drive systems? No? But precisely the change that we are currently experiencing in the passenger car sector from the combustion engine to electric drive is also more than just a trend in the motorhome...

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Electrics & Electronics

Performance Engineering – When computer hardware scaling reaches its limits

Performance is often equated with speed. In sports or Formula 1 racing, for example, a razor-thin lead of two and a half tenths of a second - i.e. 0.25 seconds - can make all the difference between victory and defeat. And it is not just on the race track that speed is one of the key criteria for success. Performance also plays a decisive role in...

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Production Solutions

Virtual. Intuitive. Efficient. Use the AR glasses to walk safety zones in your smart factory through the roboXR

In the factory of tomorrow – the smart factory – robots will be your employees' flexible coworkers. Unlike a fixed factory, and depending on programming and tooling, they are able not only to perform predefined work processes, but also to take over a wide variety of different activities. Although robots have the elegance of ballet dancers when...

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Vehicle Engineering

Closed Loop Engineering for agile, efficient mobility concepts of tomorrow

Our world is more complex than ever before. It is volatile. Unpredictable. Constantly changing. In order to be able to react quickly to these changes, a high degree of flexibility is required. Previously proven models, experiences or conditions are from now on challenged to the test bench. So, today we are continuing to experience an evolution,...

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Vehicle Engineering

The structured service provider brief as a guarantee for strong partnership with system and module suppliers

The combination of shorter product cycles and constantly increasing vehicle complexity is making ever-increasing demands on OEMs and their suppliers. In product development processes in particular, a great deal of the responsibility lies with the system suppliers. The system supplier is often the interface between the OEM and Tier 2 or Tier 3...

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Vehicle Engineering

The interior of the future - a space for passion, visions and fully integrated engineering competence

What will the car of the future look like? Will we recharge it instead of refuelling it? Will it be fully autonomous? What does the mobility of tomorrow have in store for us? International vehicle manufacturers are working all out on a variety of different solutions for alternative drivetrains and vehicle digitalisation. On one point, however,...

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Electrics & Electronics

ED::MEDAAN: this enables you to speed up the processing and evaluation of big vehicle measurement data for faster vehicle development.

Our vehicles produce a wealth of data every day, using state-of-the-art technology to do so. Highly complex sensors such as cameras, radar or lidar collect this valuable information. These can then provide information on the vehicle's performance, e.g. slippage, accelerator setting, gear shifts, etc. But for OEMs, the focus is on quite different...

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Software & Digitalisation

Networked and cooperative off-street parking: Practical application of digitization and connectivity solutions for automated valet parking

The establishment of a holistic mobility ecosystem requires the networking of vehicle and infrastructure through comprehensive and easy-to-integrate software interfaces and standards. Using the concept of off-street parking, this article illustrates practical experiences how a Smart Parking System connects different stakeholders through a software...

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Vehicle Engineering

Active Safety: Thanks to simulation, accidents remain a virtual occurrence

Safety has always been of the utmost importance in vehicle development. Regardless of vehicle category, many cars already have numerous systems: advanced driver assistance, steering and brake assist, collision avoidance, etc. These are active safety systems, and help to ensure that accidents do not happen. Over the last few years, there has...

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Software & Digitalisation

trive.park – a data and payment platform for digital car park services

In Germany, parking search traffic generates costs of 40 billion euros annually.1 A desire for more usable space and less traffic in cities is growing strongly among the population. At the same time, many drivers hesitate to drive into car parks because the process offers little customer convenience and the cost structure is usually...

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