Essay About Candela Approach And Diagnostic Development Process

Ktm – Motorcycle Development
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The Customer
The KTM-Sportmotorcycle AG with registered office in Mattighofen,
Austria produces and develops race-ready offroad
and street motorcycles. KTM is the largest motorcycle
manufacturer in Europe and a leader in the offroad competition
sector. In MY 2014, the 1190 Adventure has been
turned into what is currently the world‘s safest motorcycle.
The Challenge
Consistent creation, management, and distribution of diagnostic
data throughout the diagnostic development process
In the development of the new 1190 Adventure, and its up to
9 ECUs, an optimization of the diagnostic development process
should be performed. In previous development projects,
diagnostics was specified in text form at KTM. Automated
further processing of the specification was therefore not possible.
Rather, the ECU specification required time-consuming
interpretation and conversion into input data for the utilized
diagnostic testers both internally at KTM as well as at the ECU
suppliers. Thus diagnostic testers in development, production,
and service became available only at a late stage.
The Solution
The CANdela approach – a standardized diagnostic data
format and the corresponding tool chain
CANdelaStudio is used as a central component of the CANdela
approach in the development of diagnostics for the new 1190
Adventure motorcycle. The KTM developers use this to specify
diagnostic data in machine-processable CDD format (XML).
Thus these data are available at an early stage as input data
for many tools throughout the diagnostic development process.
Text-based specifications can be generated also out of
the CANdela description and forwarded as needed to KTM suppliers
still at the same time.
The Advantages
A standardized diagnostic data format and the Frontloading
Appraoch