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development speed and methodology
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INTRODUCING AVL LAB MANAGEMENT™
Productivity must therefore be optimized, data must deliver maximum value,
energy and resources must be managed, and maintenance, bottlenecks and
other downtime must be avoided or carefully scheduled.
At AVL, drawing on our decades of experience and deep understanding
of our customers’ needs, we have developed AVL Lab Management™ to
make this a reality. It includes three extendable and customizable base
configurations:
• AVL Lab Management™ for Battery
• AVL Lab Management™ for Propulsion
• AVL Lab Management™ for Vehicle
Each addresses specific customer needs, and each is designed to maximize
OEE and deliver high quality data for your Design Validation Plan (DVP).
SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR COMPLEX CHALLENGES
AVL Lab Management is designed to deskill your development or test
environment. Rather than requiring an engineer for every lab-based task,
it automates nearly everything that can be standardized, and allows flex-ibility
where required, leaving the engineers to focus their efforts where
they are most useful.
Whether it’s the management of test orders, the planning and scheduling
of test activities, the linking of required data such as data sheets or test
documentation, or even the management of test resources and UUTs, AVL
Lab Management does it all.
The concept is modular and open, allowing it to be tailored to your unique
needs. And it supports both AVL and 3rd party systems with modern, easy-to-
use container and web-based software.
FROM LAB TO DATA, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
To understand how comprehensive this solution is, let’s take Lab Manage-ment
for Battery as an example. Modern battery test labs can include thou-sands
of test channels in hundreds of climatic chambers, each accommo-dating
hundreds of cells. As some
tests can run for over a year, it’s
vital that each chamber is optimally
filled, and the only way to do this is
to combine test activities and pro-grams.
But in a facility that might be
testing tens of thousands of cells at
any one time, it’s impossible to do
this manually. This is where our so-lution
steps in.
Optimizing schedules, channel avail-ability,
resources and throughput,
and then making the resulting da-ta
available for analysis, it takes the
heavy lifting out of testing. But there’s
more to it than just throughput.
Battery testing requires cells to be
charged and discharged repeatedly.
When this happens at scale, electri-cal
power requirements can be stag-gering.
Exceed the maximum con-nection
line and all tests will shut
down, requiring costly and time-consuming
resumption. Lab Man-agement
for Battery manages your
energy use, by planning according
to the capabilities of test systems
in order to balance charge and dis-charge
tests at the same time, using
the electricity discharged from some
cells to charge others. This protects
your operations and increases lab
efficiency.
SELF-SERVICE DATA FOR
SUPERIOR ANALYTICS
Whether you’re using our Battery,
Propulsion or Vehicle reference so-lutions,
Lab Management also of-fers
advanced contextual data man-agement.
You can choose your own
best approach for analysis of data
from the data lake, using your pre-ferred
tools such as Python. Or al-ternatively,
to save time, data can
be interrogated using standardized
evaluations that require no pro-gramming.
Whatever your needs, AVL Lab
Management is here to help you
realize your development goals by
maximizing OEE.