On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) involves more than just reading error codes. Traditionally used for emissions-related testing, the latest version of the standard also supports the evaluation of electric powertrains. This opens new possibilities for development and testing.

In our webinar, we will demonstrate how OBD can be applied in real-world testing and development scenarios, covering everything from ECU communication to the validation of complex functions. You will learn how to use diagnostic services, evaluate vehicle data and verify OBD functions within a vehicle network.

Using our all-in-one diagnostic tool, Softing DTS.monaco, we will demonstrate how OBD communication can be analyzed, tested and efficiently integrated into workflows. A demonstration will show typical OBD processes and automated testing approaches.

Key Topics

• Advanced OBD diagnostics in development and testing
• Efficient handling and analysis of diagnostic data
• Live demonstration of OBD workflows using Softing DTS.monaco

Eventdatum: Donnerstag, 07. Mai 2026 11:00 – 11:45

Eventort: Online

Der Beitrag Webinar | Simplifying OBD use cases using one powerful Diagnostic Tester (Webinar | Online) erschien zuerst auf Local Guides.

Workshop networks and service technicians are under increasing pressure: vehicle projects are becoming more complex, diagnostic data is growing, and software and documentation need to reach the right people at the right time. Many service testers still rely on outdated processes and isolated systems. At the same time, OEMs need insights from the field – from fault memory and ECU data to service histories – to improve product quality and accelerate turnaround times. ERP connection, logistics integration, license control and intuitive usability are becoming decisive factors for cost efficiency and customer satisfaction.

From seamless operations to cloud-ready deployment – discover how Softing TDX optimizes after-sales processes.

Key Topics

• Real-world challenges in distributing diagnostic data, repair content and software to workshops
• How OEMs and Tier 1s can manage rollout control, feedback loops and backend integration with Softing TDX.server
• Live demonstration: cloud access, user management and service process optimization with Softing TDX.server

Eventdatum: Donnerstag, 05. Februar 2026 11:00 – 11:45

Eventort: Online

Der Beitrag Digitalization as a booster for an efficient cooperation between OEMs and workshops (Webinar | Online) erschien zuerst auf Local Guides.

The rapid advancement of vehicle architectures and software functions requires regular adjustments to diagnostic applications – whether for workshops, manufacturing, or test benches. However, every change carries the risk of unintended side effects. Before rolling out software, for example the service tester in all workshops, it is therefore important to ensure that not only new functions but also all existing processes continue to function correctly – despite the wide variety of variants and growing complexity.

In our webinar, we will show you how you can take the decisive step towards 100% test coverage in regression testing with the help of diagnostic simulation and automation. We will show you how to integrate different vehicles and variants into test automation by working with simulation files. A demo with Softing TCS shows the specific process – from test runs and the exchange of simulation files to seamless integration into existing test processes. The demo also covers the simple creation of simulation files by importing traces.

Key Topics

• Variant diversity poses a significant risk in the further development and rollout of diagnostic systems, which cannot be sufficiently reduced by regression testing
• Diagnostic simulation and automation enable maximum test coverage
• Live demo with Softing TCS: Trace import, test execution, and simulation file management in a practical example

Eventdatum: Donnerstag, 25. September 2025 11:00 – 11:45

Eventort: Online

Der Beitrag Achieving 100% Regression Test Coverage with Diagnostic Simulation (Webinar | Online) erschien zuerst auf Local Guides.

Ob auf Produktionslinien mit mobilen VCIs, in der Fahrzeugentwicklung oder in Werkstätten – stabile WiFi-Verbindungen sind entscheidend für effiziente und reibungslose Diagnoseprozesse. Je nach Anwendungsfall müssen dabei jedoch unterschiedlichste Herausforderungen gemeistert werden: Verbindungsabbrüche, Roaming-Probleme, unzureichende Netzabdeckung, komplexe Authentifizierungsprotokolle oder Einschränkungen der bestehenden IT-Infrastruktur können den Datenfluss stören und Abläufe verlangsamen.

In diesem Webinar zeigen unsere Experten typische WiFi-Herausforderungen in verschiedenen Diagnoseumgebungen und erläutern, wie sich diese durch gezielte Analyse und Planung vermeiden lassen. Praxisnahe Anwendungsbeispiele, smarte Lösungsansätze und eine Live-Demo in unserem VCI-Konfigurator bieten einen praxisorientierten und zukunftsweisenden Einblick.

Key Topics

• Use Cases und deren WiFi-Herausforderungen – vom Entwicklungsumfeld über Produktionslinien bis zur Werkstatt
• WiFi-Probleme verstehen, analysieren und lokalisieren 
• Smarte Lösungsansätze verständlich erläutert, inkl. praxisnaher Beispiele und Demo 

Info: Das Webinar findet auf Englisch statt.  

Eventdatum: Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2025 11:00 – 11:45

Eventort: Online

Der Beitrag Webinar | Managing WiFi Challenges in Diagnostic Use Cases (Webinar | Online) erschien zuerst auf Local Guides.

Die Programmierbarkeit elektronischer Steuergeräte in überwiegend Software-definierten Fahrzeugen ermöglicht eine schnelle Fehlerbehebung, Anpassung an Marktanforderungen sowie Integration neuer Funktionen. Der hohe Grad an Flexibilität und Adaptierbarkeit in der Steuergeräteprogrammierung führt zu häufigen Updates und erhöhtem Aufwand in der Softwareentwicklung. Zusätzlich wächst mit jeder Fahrzeuggeneration die Datenmenge, die übertragen und verarbeitet werden muss. Ob in der Prototypenphase oder der Serienfertigung – begrenzte Zeitfenster und steigende Software-Umfänge stellen große Herausforderungen dar.

In unserem Webinar zeigen wir Ihnen, wie Sie mit parallelem Zugriff die Vorteile programmierbarer Steuergeräte nutzen und den Update-Prozess skalieren, um maßgeblich Kosten und Zeit einzusparen.

Im Fokus

• Herausforderungen und Lösungen für die Steuergeräte-/Fahrzeugprogrammierung
• Vorteile durch parallele Flash-Programmierung in Prototypenbau, Serienfertigung und Post Production
• Praxisnahe Demo mit dem „Multi-Flash“ Plugin im Entwicklungstester Softing DTS.monaco

Details

Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2025 | 11:00-11:45 Uhr

Sprache: Englisch

Eventdatum: Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2025 11:00 – 11:45

Eventort: Online

Der Beitrag Efficient Flash Programming Through Parallel Vehicle Access (Webinar | Online) erschien zuerst auf Local Guides.

Over the last ten years, ODX and UDS have revolutionized diagnostic technologies and established them as widely used standards for OEMs, suppliers and tool providers. However, the software-defined vehicle (SDV) is now leading to significant changes in the E/E architecture and thus to new requirements for vehicle diagnostics.

In recent years, ASAM e.V. has therefore developed SOVD (Service-Oriented Vehicle Diagnostics), a standard for precisely the challenges of SDVs. For the first time, it allows standardized access to a diagnostic system that runs in the vehicle on an HPC (High-Performance Computer). The standard defines an API for diagnostic applications in the vehicle, for remote access, but also for today’s applications on the vehicle in production or in the workshop.

In our upcoming webinar, we will give you valuable insights into:

• Introduction to the “SOVD” diagnostic standard
• Basic concepts and technical boundary conditions
• Use cases: service-oriented diagnostics in typical diagnostic scenarios
• Advantages and disadvantages of the service-oriented approach

Speakers:
Jürgen Heilmeier
Manager Innovation & Test
Softing Automotive Electronics GmbH

Markus Steffelbauer
Director Product Manager
Softing Automotive Electronics GmbH

Join us and help shape the future of vehicle diagnostics!

Further information on the event and registration at: https://go.automotive.softing.com/webinar-sovd

Eventdatum: Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2025 11:00 – 11:45

Eventort: Online

Der Beitrag Webinar: SOVD – Standardized Diagnostic Access to SDVs (Webinar | Online) erschien zuerst auf Local Guides.

The automotive industry is undergoing profound change, driven in particular by innovative technologies and demanding trends such as electromobility, driver assistance systems and connected mobility. These developments require adjustments to vehicle architecture, OEM infrastructures and diagnostic processes. New software functions must be developed and implemented within a few months using standardized diagnostic processes.

Complex diagnostic standards such as ISO 22900-3 (MVCI Server), ISO 14229 (UDS) and ISO 22900 (D-PDU API) help OEMs to act independently of software suppliers. Implementing these standardized software layers from scratch or even using libraries from a diagnostic software vendor in any development environment requires a high level of expertise.

As one of the leading providers of software solutions for vehicle diagnostics, Softing Automotive offers a proven diagnostic software and hardware toolchain that is based on these standards and optimized to meet and use them in any software development environment and application. The use cases span the entire V-model, from development, integration, validation and testing of ECU software to production and aftersales.

In this webinar, we will present developments in automotive software and show how Softing is constantly improving its software offering to help its customers meet the latest market trends and standards. In doing so, we offer user-friendly, service-oriented software APIs that simplify the complexity of today’s and tomorrow’s diagnostic standards.

Keynotes:

• An insight into current standardized diagnostic APIs and their approaches
• A comparison with service-oriented approaches
• The practical application and advantages of a function-oriented interface (GUI development, remote, etc.)
• The application of service-oriented APIs in real-life scenarios

Speakers:
Andreas Vach
Team Lead Smart Diagonstic Engine (SDE)
Softing Automotive Electronics GmbH

Julian Mayer
Product Manager
Softing Automotive Electronics GmbH

Eventdatum: Mittwoch, 27. November 2024 11:00 – 11:45

Eventort: Online

Der Beitrag Webinar | Simplify Diagnostic Applications Using Service-Oriented APIs (Webinar | Online) erschien zuerst auf Local Guides.

Discover the potential of modern vehicle diagnostics in our webinar „Efficient Test Preparation through Diagnostic Simulation„. Softing’s automotive experts will show you how the simulation of vehicles or ECUs for cars and trucks optimizes the test process by generating simulation files.

Learn how to eliminate sources of error in test routines or test setups – such as the VCI or wiring – to get reliable test results quickly. Complete test coverage, including complex communication mechanisms, is possible and time loss is effectively minimized. In addition, the use of ODX in simulation ensures that all relevant diagnostic services are verified and available in executable form.

The webinar will also provide a brief overview of other use cases such as regression testing where trace import is applied, or use in training facilities.

Finally, we will show you how simulation simplifies troubleshooting and speeds up the entire test process by integrating it into automation.

Information & Registration

Speakers

• Ingo Drüen
  Account Manager
  Softing Automotive Electronics GmbH
• Dirk Pawels
  Product Owner
  Softing Automotive Electronics GmbH

Eventdatum: Donnerstag, 27. Juni 2024 13:00 – 13:45

Eventort: Online

Der Beitrag Webinar | Efficient Test Preparation through Diagnostic Simulation (Webinar | Online) erschien zuerst auf Local Guides.

Join our webinar: Diagnostic Communication with Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV)

SAE J1979 and its “OBD Modes” served for the protection of our environment against harmful pollutants for decades, but due to regulatory adoption of Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS), SAE J1979 has now become a multiple part document series: SAE J1979 will be replaced by SAE J1979-2 for vehicles with combustion engines (ICEs) and by SAE J1979-3 for Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) propulsion systems. For ZEVs, emission-related failures will be replaced by ZEV propulsion-related failures.

Both SAE J1979-2 and -3 are variants of ISO 14229 (UDS) but limited to emission-related and ZEV propulsion-related failures, respectively, and associated diagnostic data. These new diagnostic communication protocols are required by California Air Resources Board (CARB) but do not support vehicle-manufacturer-specific diagnostic applications like calibration or flash programming. For performance reasons of the flash process, the deployment of UDS on Internet Protocol (UDSonIP) as it is standardized in ISO 14229-5 became state-of-the art.

In this webinar you will learn the basics of diagnostic communication (UDS, DoCAN, DoIP). It also covers how UDS is used for diagnostic communication with a ZEV to read the VIN. Furthermore, a practical demo provides a graphical user interface of a diagnostic service tester.

Keynotes

• Brief introduction to diagnostic communication (UDS, DoCAN, DoIP)
• How UDS is used by the SAE J1979-3 to communicate with a ZEV
• Comparison between DoIP and Diagnostic communication over CAN (DoCAN)

Speakers (2)

• Peter Subke
  Business Development Manager
  by Softing Automotive
• Oliwier Sochor
  Product Manager
  by Softing Automotive

Join our webinar: Diagnostic Communication with Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV)

Learn more about UDS, DoCAN, DoIP and how UDS is used e.g. by SAE J1979-3 with ZEV for VIN measurements.

Registration

Eventdatum: Donnerstag, 06. Juni 2024 11:00 – 12:00

Eventort: Online

Der Beitrag Webinar | Diagnostic Communication with Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) (Webinar | Online) erschien zuerst auf Local Guides.

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zur nächsten virtuellen „Softing Automotive Convention“ am 24. und 25. Mai 2022. In unserem virtuellen Showroom haben Sie die Möglichkeit, unsere Softwarelösungen und Exponate ganz einfach im Büro oder von Zuhause zu erleben.

Neben der Entdeckungstour durch unsere virtuelle Ausstellung erwarten Sie verschiedene Live-Demos und Präsentationen. Die Experten zeigen Ihnen anhand verschiedener Use Cases aus der Praxis:

• „Benefits of Parallel Remote Access in Vehicle Development – Demonstration of Various Use Cases“
• „Test the Tester – Simulation of DoIP Control Units as a New Challenge“
• „Perfect Match – Individual Workshop Tester Meets Rugged CAN/CAN FD Interface“
• „Innovative Telematics Solution for the New Dimension of Digital Mixed Fleet Management“

Selbstverständlich steht Ihnen das Softing-Team während des Events für den persönlichen Austausch per Chat (Textchat, Audio oder Video) zur Verfügung.

Wir freuen uns darauf, Sie auf unserer Automotive Convention begrüßen zu dürfen!

Ihr Softing Automotive Team

Highlights im Überblick

• Exklusive Live-Demos & Präsentationen (Vortragssprache Englisch)
• 3D-Ausstellungshalle mit unseren Diagnoselösungen und vielen Anwendungsfällen zum Entdecken
• Austellung unserer Testsysteme im virtuellen „Testlabor“
• Großes Angebot an exklusiven Video- und Informationsmaterial
• 360°-Ansicht unserer Fahrzeugschnittstellen (VCIs) der VIN|ING-Familie & Telematik-Interface der Softing-Tochter GlobalmatiX
• Persönlicher Austausch mit dem Softing-Expertenteam

Eventdatum: 24.05.22 – 25.05.22

Eventort: Online

Der Beitrag Softing Automotive Convention 2022 (Messe | Online) erschien zuerst auf Local Guides.