Software Solutions

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Diagnostics lifecycle concept

Vehicle diagnostics does not just start in the workshops. In order to avoid problems in the field, relevant diagnostic concepts must be taken into account within the framework of new vehicle development. At the start of production (SOP), the development of diagnostics should also be completed. For reasons of growing overall complexity in the vehicle, some potential faults however cannot be detected until later; the scope of diagnostics-functions must then be extended respectively. An update of all vehicles in service is expensive.

Therefore, a solution is chosen by which the diagnostic functions are partitioned into onboard and offboard diagnosis modules. For new diagnostic functions, only new or modified offboard diagnosis modules have to be generated. A software update is only necessary for the workshop diagnostics testers.

Efficient fault diagnostics for highly complex systems is based on guided troubleshooting with a number of linked diagnostic functions. With the extendable diagnostic functions, diagnosis modules in the ECU of the vehicle are actuated by the offboard diagnostics modules in the workshop tester. Different service tools in conjunction with special motor diagnostics functions render the troubleshooting particularly efficient.