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3 3 F o c u s Ideal Bas is for Collaboration With its Integrated & Open Development Platform, AVL has created a consistent and open solution that contributes significantly towards increased efficiency in development and testing processes. “One central aim of the AVL Integrated & Open Development Platform is to provide our customers with software solutions offering data and process consistency throughout the entire development and testing process – from simulation over test bed testing all the way to road tests. Similarly, we will make the user experience and the way users interact with the software as uniform and as simple as possible,” Herwig Schelch, Head of ITS Integration Software Products in AVL Instrumentation and Test Systems, explained. “This ‘collaboration platform’, which is also what we call it, will give us a fast and straightforward way to exchange contents between different devices, test environments and content management systems. These contents may take on many different forms such as simulation models, testing methods and results, configurations, workflows, etc. They may even be supplied by our customers or third party vendors – hence the ‘Open’ in the product name.” A crucial benefit of the consistency is that simulation models can also be used ‘in the loop’. Already today AVL CRUISE powertrain models, for example, can be used on the AVL Virtual Vehicle engine test bed where, for example, the behavior of a dualmass flywheel is then simulated under true-to-life conditions. This supports the strategy of shifting tests from the road to the test bed in order to save development time and costs. » This ‘collabo- ration platform’ gives us a fas t and straightforwa rd wa y to exchange contents between diferent devices, test environments and content management systems. « The consistency offered by the AVL platform also leads to significantly increased efficiency in calibration work. A solution to meet the challenges presented by the steep rise in the number of vehicle and powerAn train variants is to distribute calibration tasks among different development environments (office, hardware in the loop, engine or powertrain test bed, chassis dynamometer or road). Adapted software tools, such as those offered by AVL, create the conditions for smooth collaboration across the entire process. Even where exhaust gas emission measurement is concerned, consistency between different testing environments has a number of advantages. Tests that are normally performed on a chassis dynamometer can now also be run on an powertrain or engine test bed, thanks to simple and fast methodology transfer. “The Integrated & Open Development Platform is being expanded further. In future, it will be capable of integrating all AVL software products available. All of AVL’s business units – Simulation (AST), Engineering (PTE) as well as Instrumentation and Test Systems (ITS) – are working very closely together on this matter. At ITS, the software producing units have been integrated into a business area of its own (‘ITS-I Integration Software Products’) in order to strengthen and intensify the activities,” Herwig Schelch told Focus. “Right now our customers are already benefiting considerably from the noticeable consistency between the different AVL software solutions and the many associated advantages in a variety of areas.” < > Herwig Schelch, Head of ITS Integration Software Products in AVL Instrumentation and Test Systems innovation


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