Let’s talk business: Experts discuss innovative solutions for workshops
09 dicembre 2021
Frankfurt am Main, 13 December 2021. Experts used the fourth instalment of the ‘Let’s Talk Business’ series to discuss which innovations can help manufacturers and workshops to meet the challenges of digitalisation and the mobility transition. The web talk brought together representatives from AVL DiTEST, Carbon and Hunter to share their views on this topic.
Regardless of whether it be emissions measurement equipment, autonomous vehicle inspection or body repair systems, the experts wasted no time in agreeing that innovative workshop solutions for tomorrow’s mobility needed to be as sustainable and user-friendly as possible. In addition to newly developed solutions for workshops, they also discussed the challenges that digitalisation and the mobility transition posed not only for workshops, but for manufacturers as well.
Olaf Mußhoff, Director of Automechanika Frankfurt and moderator of the panel discussion: “Our ‘Let’s talk business’ series offers leading industry players the opportunity to share their new ideas and developments with Automechanika’s international audience of professionals.” Guests included Dr. Tristan Reinisch, Master TechLead Emission Measurement at AVL DiTEST, Felix Scholl, COO of Carbon, and Darcy Tallon, Vice President International of Hunter.
Felix Scholl from Carbon: “If we want to protect the environment and climate, we have to
talk about resource conservation and sustainability. Sustainability plays a special role for
Carbon. We have been actively promoting ‘repairing instead of renewing’ in workshops for
over 20 years with our products. Resource conservation and environmental protection are
an integral part of the concept behind our products.”
To reduce CO2 emissions and advance the mobility transition, alternative drive systems
are essential. This also means that workshops that have been working solely with
combustion engines up to now will have to provide their employees with the requisite
training. Dr. Tristan Reinisch from AVL DiTEST: “In future, different job profiles will be
needed in workshops. There will be experts specialising in electromobility and experts
specialising in advanced driving assistance systems, as well as technicians specialising in
internal combustion engines.”
According to Felix Scholl from Carbon, it may be possible to use augmented reality to
supplement training in future: “Augmented reality is a big thing for us, because it is already
being used in the field of accident damage assessment, for example by assessors and car
insurance companies. There are very good software solutions for this, and these could
also be interesting for us in future for our training.” Augmented reality is already being
used internally at Hunter: “When our manufacturing team encounters a problem, they use
their augmented reality headsets and communicate with our remote manufacturing facility
to see exactly what's happening there and where the problem is,” said Darcy Tallon from
Hunter, adding that: "Real-time voice translation services could also be helpful in
communicating with business partners. For example, I could be speaking in English and
the person I'm talking to would hear my explanation of how to fix a Hunter machine
directly in German while I'm sitting here in St. Louis.”
The web talk also addressed the topic of standardising digital processes and products:
“Standardization is very important for the European market to avoid having a different
legal framework in each country. Otherwise manufacturing measurement and test
equipment can quickly become very complicated if you have to satisfy different
requirements in each country – even though they are measuring the same things. This is
particularly true for emission measurement equipment, where you have to make changes
for each country even though you are using the same sensor. That is why I believe that
standardisation is not only important for digitalisation, but also for the hardware.”
You will find the entire talk in English on our website at
www.automechanika.com/lets-talk-business.
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