Vehicle Applications
As
our customers prepare their products for production, they are aware
that sophistication is a by-product of engine technology advancements. This requires that significantly more calibration be conducted with integrated systems.
For the vehicle manufacturer, the ramification of this is a great
deal of coordination between various groups that have been responsible
for the engine, its controls and instrumentation, the vehicle chassis
platform teams, the groups responsible for various exhaust and intake
system components, as well as homologation teams.
The range of FEV’s support services has continually widened by the completion of full vehicle development tasks.
For
over ten years, FEV has offered not only engine development programs,
but also complete powertrain calibration services to worldwide markets.
The
continuously increasing market and legislative requirements demand new
powertrain concepts, with an increase of new control functionalities
and a growing number of influencing parameters.
The
rapidly increasing demand for mobility and the increasing environmental
implications of limited fossil resources has paved the way for
alternative fuels in future automotive propulsion.
FEV’s
unique production calibration approach allows diesel, SI-engine,
transmission, OBD calibration and hybrid systems to be fully integrated
within a single team.
Modern
engine management systems are designed to control state-of-the-art
engine subsystems, while meeting the high demands of customers and
governments around the world.
Methods
that can decouple calibration tasks as far as possible from the
hardware, while providing rapid solutions with less resource intensive
experiments, are necessary to support all the major calibration steps
in the development process.
An
important topic in the course of production calibration activities is
the availability of aged catalysts to check the emission calibration
for stability and robustness during the early stages of the project.
FEV’s
calibration development for the U.S. market can carry out an
on-market-site vehicle fleet testing program for various variants.
FEV
provides a total turnkey approach, where a list of the desired vehicles
are input and result in a report for each individual vehicle, projected
on the customer’s fleet.
FEV
has an established, company wide, integrated quality and environmental
management system for all processes that is certified by different
authorities and customers.
FEV’s research and development of advanced engine technology has always been one of our primary focuses.