The article published by Beckhoff highlights how modern test bench automation enables realistic and reproducible testing in commercial vehicle development. It focuses on PC-based control, vehicle bus integration, and the flexible validation of various powertrain technologies.
Softing Automotive offers a universal vehicle remote control system for the driverless operation of commercial vehicles of all drive types on roller test benches based on cost-effective industrial automation technology components. The concept was most recently implemented at the Daimler Truck plant in Wörth on the Road to Rig (R2R) commercial vehicle all-wheel drive chassis dynamometer. You can find out more about this use case in this article.
Softing Automotive offers a solution for decoupling the DUT from the test bench automation on the hardware and software side, which only requires a small amount of OEM-specific knowledge from the manufacturer of the automation system and therefore significantly simplifies and accelerates the preparation and execution of the test process. A test bench interface, which is connected between the automation and the device under test (DUT), makes this feasible and also enables the testing of several test objects with a corresponding front end.
