interview 2 6 F O C U S » THE SOPHISTICATED TECHNIQUE MUST BE MADE AS EASY TO USE AS POSSIBLE, SO THAT IT WILL REACH LOTS OF USERS. « BERNHARD SCHICK efficient and effective calibration will be playing an increasingly significant role there, too. On top of all that, we will support our customers in their calibration process adjustment efforts with our consulting and application services. ‹F›: What progress are you seeing in the area of Test Information Management? ‹Schick›: We have been successfully using process tools to organize, monitor, manage and document the entire test process in major test factories for many years. We will be expanding these to be able to offer a consistent and interlinked data filing system for test orders across all test phases, so that results from simulation, test-bed test and road test can be compared and assessed quickly and easily. Such a test-lifecycle management system can be employed across widely different areas – such as powertrain, chassis, passive safety and electrics/ electronics. Apart from that, we are working hard on creating interfaces to product-lifecycle management systems, to close a number of gaps between different systems that we still have due to media discontinuity. ‹F›: Working in Instrumentation and Test Systems, how do you collaborate with the other AVL areas, Powertrain Engineering (PTE) and Advanced Simulation Technologies (AST)? ‹Schick›: Our colleagues at PTE are deeply involved in vehicle development, and we benefit greatly from their application expertise. Multiple innovative methods, such as MoBEO for example, can be traced back to their hands-on commitment, and have long since proved their worth. We also work very closely together in areas like Real Driving Emissions, Connected Powertrain or Consulting Services. Our cooperation with AST is extremely important, too: Here we benefit from the simulation environments that are specially adapted to fit test beds. ‹F›: AVL is deeply involved in activities with a number of different research facilities. What advantages does this sort of cooperation have? ‹Schick›: Our cooperation partners have top-grade model-based testing facilities, where we get to apply innovative methods, tools and processes from AVL in a way that is very much in step with actual practice. There, we achieve the benefits with our customers very early on in pilot projects, enabling even faster technology transfer. ‹F›: The last professional position you held, before joining AVL, was managing director at IPG Automotive, a specialist for virtual test driving. What attracted you to AVL? ‹Schick›: Before that, I’d already gained plenty of experience in test bed and test driving at TÜV SÜD. At IPG, the focus was on transferring the methods of real road tests to virtual road tests and representing the benefit in practical applications. I noticed early on that it would be important to bring together the virtual and the real test in various forms – as model-based testing and as model based calibration. AVL uniquely combines development capabilities, simulation and test bed equipment. Here, we not only have comprehensive application expertise to “nurture” the model-based methods in a hands-on approach. Thanks to its global positioning, AVL is able to optimally support vehicle manufacturers and suppliers all over the world with cuttingedge technologies. <
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