K-DCP Engineering Toolchain

Overview

The K-DCP Engineering toolchain is an integrated toolset which caters to all diagnostic engineering use-cases and processes across the OE vehicle development flow.

The toolchain has been designed to embrace and leverage the benefits of data re-usability, transparency and uniformity throughout the development process. It encompasses tools that enable the OEM system and component engineers to seamlessly execute activities such as:

  • Diagnostic data specification development
  • ECU diagnostic data authoring
  • Development of test sequences for ECU validation
  • Execution of ECU sequence and conformance tests

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Salient Features

  • A cloud-based enterprise integration platform joins all the engineering functions together, connecting the dots from requirements sign-off through to automated compliance gateways; automating data flow and eliminating legacy processes (such as manual file handling)
  • Integrated dashboards provide up-to-the-minute insight into development maturity and place our customers firmly in control of their diagnostic artifact delivery

Key Benefits

As an integrated set-up, the Engineering toolchain enables >30% reduction in authoring efforts (when compared to tool-chains existing in the market today), whilst delivering improved and consistent data quality.

The tool-chain enables authoring productivity gains by driving the following improvements:

Process improvements

  • Integrated tool-chain
  • Fully tool driven development
  • Single source of truth
  • Bullet proofing diagnostic functionalities

Validation improvements

  • Automated validation of data and ECUs

Overview

The Database Designer offers a comfortable working environment for diagnostic functional specification of all the ECUs within a vehicle. Users can create standards compliant ODX data for OEM and supplier industries.

Effective data management is a critical element of a successful diagnostic solution. KPIT understands that regardless of data volume (single ECU, system or entire platform), an effective tool is required that can enable rapid visualization, understanding and data modification.

The Database Designer is the perfect solution. It provides standards compliant, drag-and-drop, element-by-element ODX (or PDX) manipulation capabilities without the need for any intermediate import/export.

Overview

Salient Features

  • Dynamic data management easily scales from a single ECU to entire vehicle data sets
  • Fully standards-compliant (up to ODX 2.2.0) native support
  • Complete ODX element visualization and manipulation functionality
  • Integrated, extensible checker tool ensures ASAM standards and customer-specific rule compliance
  • Integrated PDF generation enables seamless creation of complete ECU function manuals
  • Integrated Excel import and export features

Key Benefits

  • Enables rapid, scalable, data visualization and manipulation across the entire ODX data-set
  • Ensures quality output through structured editing and compliance validation

Overview

The ECU Editor is a productivity-focused, use-case specific authoring environment that enables collaborative, quality data authoring through re-use and validation whilst isolating authors from the underlying content deliverables.

As vehicle systems evolve and electrical complexity increases, it is essential that diagnostic data authoring keeps pace. The product development cycle is facing growing pressures from tightly-controlled programme timelines, multiple design inputs and a continuing trend towards service-oriented, function-based systems.

The ECU Editor meets this challenge head-on and is designed from the ground-up to promote efficiency and productivity through use-case focused features that actively re-use existing authoring effort.

Overview

Salient Features

  • Dynamic data management easily scales from a single ECU to entire vehicle data sets
  • Fully standards-compliant (up to ODX 2.2.0) native support
  • Collaborative authoring accelerates delivery through concurrent (single or multi-ECU) working
  • User experience optimized for productivity with wizards for easy and effective authoring
  • Function specific visualization and manipulation for DTCs, data monitoring, routine controls etc
  • Integrated import/export features, including ODX, DEXT, RIF (IBM Doors), PREEvision, CANdela (Vector) etc
  • Support for multilingual diagnostic data

Key Benefits

  • Focuses on complete end-to-end data management, not just pieces
  • Delivers productivity improvements of approximately 50% per vehicle platform, leveraging existing know-how and content re-use (including upstream data import)
  • Guarantees 100% data redundancy avoidance and traceability through integration with the K-DCP Business Integration Platform repository

Overview

KPIT’s OTX Authoring Suite (AS) is a re-imagination of OTX authoring that focusses on simplifying the overall authoring experience, whilst understanding and optimizing the productivity of different user groups.

KPIT understands that whether the organization is large or small, diagnostic engineers should be focusing on the development of relevant diagnostics applications and functions.

To that effect, KPIT provides a fully-integrated, feature-rich, productivity-focused authoring suite that truly meets the modern authoring needs. The suite delivers use-case specific functionality such as:

  • Wizard-based authoring
  • Flow editor
  • Screen builder
  • Script editor
Overview

Salient Features

  • Full support for ISO-13209 (including ASAM Extensions and subsequent ISO addendum) OTX standards
  • Multiple authoring modes, flow, script and wizard-based
  • WYSIWYG screen layout with automatic binding and logic code generation
  • Out-of-the-box, extensible SCM support (Git)
  • Integrated diagnostic services browser with drag-and-drop
  • OTX template libraries support with drag-and-drop screen flow orchestration
  • Integrated OTX checker, execution and debugging functionality (OTX & customer checker rules)
  • Fully integrated with KPIT’s cloud repository for seamless, change-driven sequence development

Key Benefits

  • Enables authoring of standardized, reusable and exchangeable diagnostic sequences
  • Provides an intuitive user experience to maximize efficiency
  • Provides role-specific views on sequence authoring to minimize effort
  • Offers the opportunity to leverage modern development processes as part of an overall diagnostic sequence authoring strategy

Overview

KPIT’s Engineering Tester is an essential tool for verification of diagnostic functions throughout the vehicle.  It provides ECU and communication protocol monitoring and manipulation features that leverage integrated diagnostic data and can be utilized for use-cases such as parameter monitoring/update, bus-monitoring, and flashing.

It is an essential tool for observing behavior and identifying functional defects during the diagnostic development process. It provides advanced functionality that improves engineer productivity and lowers development cost.

Overview

Salient Features

  • Multi data-point monitoring, alerting and capture with tabular or graphical representation
  • Advanced bus monitoring capture and analysis
  • Leverages standards-based diagnostics data (ODX, OTX sequences)
  • On-demand diagnostic service execution and response interpretation (Read/Modify ECU parameters, Read/Clear fault codes, etc.)
  • Out-of-the-box, multi-bus support including ([FT-] CAN, DoIP, etc.)
  • Portable installation base (PC, Tablet, Cloud, etc.)
  • Execution through KPIT’s proven Diagnostics stack
  • Full integration with Business Integration Platform provides up-to-date centralized data access

Key Benefits

  • Enables diagnostic functions that leverage up-to-date data from a centralized back-end
  • Provides advanced data-point and bus monitoring and capture to reduce function verification
  • Provides comprehensive on-demand diagnostic service execution facilities
  • Is easily extended (through OTX sequences) to enable customer-specific use-cases

Overview

KPIT’s ECU Validator is an Automated Diagnostic Compliance Tester tool. It provides Diagnostic protocol testing and ECU implementation validation and is mainly used by testing departments and ECU suppliers.

With the ECU Validator, ECU conformity certification is no longer a high-cost process, nice-to-have or an after-thought. This is now an integral part of your diagnostic data process and under your control.

Overview

Salient Features

  • Data-driven testing that leverages diagnostic data (ODX, OTX) to validate compliance to specifications
  • Support for bench-based setup with commodity interface devices, extensible to incorporate HIL fault-injection based testing
  • Automated execution of positive and negative test cases
  • Execution statistics and detailed test results
  • Test report generation, including executed test steps, bus & symbolic traces
  • Easily expand test coverage for specific functions or special cases with additional OTX sequences
  • Tests executed through KPIT’s proven Diagnostics stack
  • Full integration with Business Integration Platform provides centralized, correct maturity data

Key Benefits

  • Provides an automated quality gateway for diagnostic delivery
  • Can operate at component (ECU) or feature level and leverage HIL integration
  • Proves that implementations conform to stated requirements and specifications
  • Provides traceability from test result to diagnostic function, and initial requirements
  • Enables centralized maturity dashboards that put you in control of your deliveries

Overview

KPIT’s Business Integration platform provides a cohesive and unified end-to-end data flow across K-DCP Tools to left-shift the diagnostic data development process. It leverages standard enterprise methodologies to ease data transition between departments and truly provide a joined-up, single diagnostics development platform.

It follows Enterprise integration methodologies, with industry specifications like REST HAL, OPEN API, etc; to expose diagnostic data services within the diagnostic data development process.

KPIT tools are integrated out-of-the-box, and authorized external applications can easily be added through simple integration interfaces.

Overview

Salient Features

  • Cloud-based, single point of integration & interface to existing IT back-end systems, infrastructure and diagnostic systems
  • Industry-specification (HAL, etc) friendly RESTful APIs that minimize integration effort
  • Authentication, authorization and licensing platform that integrates directly with your existing providers via SAML
  • Configurable pipelines to enable continuous integration & quality gating of diagnostic data
  • Intuitive publication and [dependency based] packaging for delivery to down-stream customers
  • Dashboards and analytics that provide deep insight into diagnostic authoring maturity & delivery status
  • Diagnostic session upload, storage and data-processing platform for deep analytics

Key Benefits

KPIT’s Business Integration Platform joins the dots between processes and tools, and:

  • Provides a backbone for truly centralized diagnostic data authoring and content delivery
  • Enables rapid platform adoption with out-of-the-box tooling integration
  • Uses enterprise integration patterns to lower cost and accelerate IT-backend cohesion