Your Ideas. Realised

We bring a great deal of enthusiasm to developing ideal solutions to your requirements and ideas. With our excellent technical knowhow and professional design equipment, we offer a comprehensive range of services relating to electronics, software and housing technology, with test strategies fine-tuned to your product philosophy.

Our highly committed staff of physicists, IT specialists, electronic engineers, technicians and designers is engaged to develop production oriented products, which meet the most demanding criteria:

• Tough environmental conditions, e.g. temperature, vibration, EMC, etc.
• Electronics for safety related applications
• Cost constraints, short development times, high flexibility

Comprehensive quality and safety concepts

Examples of customer driven product designs

• Customer specific variations of the CAN bus control units of the ESX® family and complete system solutions, e.g. diesel particle filter in commercial vehicles, control of semi-trailer coupling in a truck or automatic guidance of fork-lift trucks
• Combined power and control electronics for fuel cells and hybrid drives
• Highly dynamic control systems featuring the latest DSP technology
• Variable, high volume production of electronic pressure switches
• Extremely reliable components for the aviation industry, e.g. a ‘Anti-Ice-Controller’
• Simulators for systems in aviation vehicles, e. g. helicopter electronics simulator

Tools for electronic- and software-design

• Professional CAD-tools for mechanical constructions (SolidWorks), interface diagrams, wiring diagrams (TreeCad)
• Requirements Engineering Tool (DOORS/Telelogic)
• Version management system (Subversion)
• Development environments, compilers and emulators for
  • 8-Bit: C505, C515, MC68HCxx, PIC12Fxx, PIC16Fxx, PIC18Fxx, AT90CANxx, Atmegaxx, Attinyxx
  • 16-Bit: C167, ST10Fxx, MC56F83xx (DSP), MC9S12xx, MSP430xx
  • 32-Bit: TMS320xx (DSP), TC1130 (TriCore), TC1796 (TriCore), MPC564, H8S
  • Graphic program surface according to IEC 61131 (CoDeSys/3S)
 
• Source code validation of software (QA/C-Misra/QA Systems)
• Creation of Design-FMEA, Process-FMEA, FMEDA, FMECA (Item Toolkit)
• Graphic development environments for functional specification und modelling, which is independent of the target machine. Automatic generation of code and simulation of control software, based on block diagrams and state machines (ASCET/based on ETAS OSEK)
• Real time-system software for development of automotive control devices. Implementation standards like AUTOSAR-OS V1.0 (SC-1) and OSEK/VDX OS V2.2.3, with MISRA compliance. ’Real time-Kernel’ supports various micro controllers (OSEK/ ETAS)
• Evaluation of performance data, Flash-Memory-Programming, Administration of application data of control machines (INCA/ETAS)
• Numerical simulation and graphical results  with C/C++ code generation (Matlab/ theMathWorks)
• Hierarchical modelling of different nonlinear systems and development of C-Codes from models, development of real time applications for a large number of process types (Simulink)Diagnostic Suite as a combination of control machines simulation/test and record analyzer (Samdia)

Tools and Processes for Product Eligibility

• Development according to quality management systems of the automobile industry ISO/TS 16949 (VDA 6.1, QS9000), certified by the DQS (German Association for Quality Certifications) and the “Kraftfahrtbundesamt” (German Federal Motor Office)
• EMC-Room (Size: 6m x 4m x 3m)
  • Wave emission
  • Performance bounded emission
  • ESD
• Electrical Safety (EN 60204)
• STW-Company standard verification
  • IP-Protection Class (EN60529, DIN40050-9): typ. IP67, IP69K
  • Vibration (EN 60068-2-6)
  • Temperature range testing (EN 60068-2-14)
  • Shock testing (EN 60068-2-27, -29)
  • Saltwater mist (EN 60068-2-52)
  • Humidity (EN 60068-2-30, -78)
• Functional safety (IEC 61508, EN 954-1, EN ISO 13849)
• Several customized company standards
• Reliability Studies
  • Endurance analysis/MTBF
  • Testing sequences of electronic supply parts for the automobile industry (ISO 16750)
  • Thermal analysis
• Failure Analysis
  • Design-FMEA, System-FMEA according to VDA 4, QS9000
  • FMECA: analysis of critical reviews for safety applications
  • FMEDA: diagnostic analysis for safety applications
• Certified qualification in external laboratories:
  • official EMC-Authorization CE (89/336/EWG)
    • Disturbance signaling in living-, business- or industry area (EN 61000-6-3)
    • Disturbance resistance in industry area (EN 61000-6-2)
    • System application (EN 61000-3-2, -3)
  • Authorization in ‘Road Traffic Licensing Regulations’ e1 (72/245/EWG, 75/322/EWG)
    • Disturbance signaling (DIN EN 55025)
    • Disturbance resistance (KFZ-Pulse: ISO 7637-2, -3)
    • ESD in the automobile (ISO 10605)
  • Wireless device protection such as GPRS, GSM, Bluetooth (EN 301489)
  • UL
  • Ex-Protection EN 60079-15 Zone2, 94/9/EG Kategorie 3, USA: Class I / Division 2)

• C-Programming guidelines
• Automotive Spice (ISO 15504)
• V-Model
• Software-FMEA
• STW-Basic-Library with software test function