Category: Blog Automotive

We cordially invite you to the Softing x Globalmatix TechDay on 14 May 2024 in Kirchentellinsfurt! Join us as we present our latest solutions for the automotive industry, which overcome a variety of challenges in the areas of development, production and aftersales. Experience live our innovative solutions for the detection of minor damage, high-speed flashing, automated fault simulation as well as electronic test setups and test systems. We will show you how our technologies can help you to achieve your individual efficiency and growth targets. In exciting live crashes, we will present our telematics solution for detecting minor damage with automated, cloud-based AI accident analysis as well as other innovative approaches to digital fleet management.

The automotive industry is moving towards environmentally friendly drives and digital, automated functions. This increases the complexity of vehicle electronics and the demands on communication. Standardization in vehicle diagnostics is therefore becoming increasingly important in order to simplify engineering, production and service and to ensure interoperability and cost-effectiveness over the entire vehicle life cycle.

On 4th April 2024, the i-Mobility event was inaugurated in Stuttgart by Transport Minister Winfried Hermann. Subsequently, Minister Hermann visited the booth for the research project AMEISE, supported by the Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg. It was an honor to discuss with him the potentials of autonomous driving in public transportation! The goal of the "AMEISE" project is the development and research of highly automated, emission-free vehicles for passenger transport in public transport and the exploration of success factors for the faster spread of autonomous driving in public transport in Baden-Württemberg.

Have you ever wondered how practical it would be to combine all diagnostic functions in one single tool? The Softing Diagnostic Tool Set is an intuitive diagnostic tool for the entire range of use cases in both vehicle engineering and development as well as diagnostics, from ECU testing to vehicle release in engineering, testing and manufacturing.

With easy to create automated communication tests, the large number of ECUs and their variants as well as the wide variety of diagnostic services and parameterizations can be conveniently verified. With the Test Case Editor in Softing OTX.studio, the validation of ECUs is created quickly and easily by using an intuitive drag & drop function. It is also possible to visualize the results in XML or HTML format and map the statistics of the test campaigns. In this video you can see how simple it is to create ECU communication tests.

Meet us at the SAE OBD Symposium 2024 in Amsterdam and join the presentation "Diagnostic Communication with a ZEV using UDS on IP (SAE J1979-3)” by Peter Subke. The presentation explains the extension of SAE J1979 and its "OBD Modes" to UDS and their application in ZEVonUDS for the diagnosis of ZEV drive systems, including the reading of the VIN using DoIP.

Team spirit, dynamism, commitment - we at Softing Automotive share a passion for fair team sport. We are therefore very proud to be a new sponsor of the Panther Indersdorf youth handball team from the 2023/2024 season. We are providing the talented players of the E- and C-youth with new playing equipment and thus creating optimal conditions for sporting success and the promotion of young talent!

In aftersales, faults and problems need to be identified and resolved as quickly as possible. The service tester is an indispensable tool for workshop employees and mobile service teams when localizing faults, troubleshooting and commissioning components and vehicles. With Softing TDX, all the benefits of digital transformation in aftersales can be exploited by storing and linking data centrally.

During this reflective time, we would like to thank you for your interest, your loyalty, and the shared successes we have been able to share with you this year. The Christmas season should bring you moments of joy, serenity, and harmony to end the year in a special way.

A fully equipped vehicle produces several gigabits of data per second. In particular, this data provides information about the technical condition of the vehicle. In raw format and also in standardized data description formats, however, this data is generally not comprehensible to humans. Therefore, they are interpreted by software and converted into human-readable information. Softing's Smart Diagnostic Engine (SDA) is a platform-independent runtime system that interprets and executes diagnostic functions, simple diagnostic services and even complex and automated diagnostic sequences for precisely this purpose.