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Reducing Diagnostic Tester Development Costs. NASTF General Meeting Miami, Fl 3 May 2011 Presented by Bernard Carr, Robert Bosch LLC. Data Management. NASTF General Meeting. 2. Lots of parametric data High effort to manage Industry partnering. May 3, 2011. Lots of Parametric Data.
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Reducing Diagnostic Tester Development Costs NASTF General Meeting Miami, Fl 3 May 2011 Presented by Bernard Carr, Robert Bosch LLC
Data Management NASTF General Meeting 2 Lots of parametric data High effort to manage Industry partnering May 3, 2011
Lots of Parametric Data NASTF General Meeting 3 Data comes in many formats • DOC, ODX, PDF, SQL, TXT, XLS, XML, … Data takes many forms • Vehicles, Systems, ECUs • DTCs, Parameters, Controls, Scripted Tests Data is endless • Thousands of records (rows of data) May 3, 2011
High Effort to Manage NASTF General Meeting 4 Handling hundreds, or thousands, of: • Vehicle Identification, ECUs, DTCs, Parameters, Controls, Scripted Tests Across many automobile Makes Collectively this is a very large data set A challenge to manage costs as data is administered in business system(s) May 3, 2011
Industry Partnering (1/2) NASTF General Meeting 5 Tool Companies’ Create: • “Generic Data Template (GDT)” to hold data • Software tools to import this data • First requirement: no complex solution Tool Companies’ work with OEM: • Companies provide extraction tools • OEM outputs their data into the GDT format • OEM satisfies legislation very efficiently May 3, 2011
Industry Partnering (2/2) • Tool Companies’ Standardize: • The “GDT” system through itself or an existing standardization body • Tool Companies’ Recurring Job: • Get data in any format from OEM • Cleanse, normalize, and optimize • Output data in simple “GDT” format • Make GDT data sets available to members NASTF General Meeting
Open Discussion NASTF General Meeting 7 Sanity Check: • Does such an approach make sense? • Is there skilled labor to perform this task? • Are business system costs now high enough to address this issue? May 3, 2011