1 INTRODUCTION
Combustion measurement technology from AVL
CHALLENGE
These days legislation acts as a major driving force in the automotive industry
and pushes current development trends. Effective drive systems with the
lowest emissions possible at moderate costs will be in high demand for all
engine sizes. At the same time the market is changing rapidly as a result of
new manufacturers appearing on the market and intensifying the competitive
pressure on all OEMs. All these circumstances lead to radically shortened
development cycles in general. Due to peripheral conditions combustion
analysis will increasingly become the central focus of tests because future
engine maps for example will incorporate several combustion concepts.
Therefore all test engineers, calibration engineers, development engineers
as well as test-field managers are facing increasing complexity and need
stronger interaction and correlation between combustion analysis results.
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