At the Bauma trade fair, Bosch presents new solutions for efficient machine diagnoses and repairs on construction and agricultural machinery

Munich – At the Bauma construction machinery trade show in Munich from April 8 to 14, 2019, the Bosch Automotive Aftermarket Division will present several products related to vehicle diagnoses at a joint booth with Bosch Rexroth in Hall A3/Stand 327 – both for manufacturers of construction and agricultural machinery and for workshops maintaining and repairing these machines.

Car manufacturers around the world already use the well-proven Bosch Grade-X diagnostic platform for the efficient development of software solutions for vehicle diagnoses and repairs. Bosch now adjusted this successful platform – meeting international industrial standards which make it suitable for cross-manufacturer applications – to the specific requirements of the market of construction and agricultural machinery. After all, the demand for intelligent, electronic and connected solutions is growing on the construction/agricultural-machinery sector as well. To ensure operational readiness of these machines at any time, the manufacturers develop sophisticated functions including cloud-based diagnoses and service over the air (SOTA). This results in a technical complexity which requires handling of large data volumes and the use of faster analytical tools. The Bosch Grade-X platform provides vehicle and machinery manufacturers with an ideal solution for the straightforward and timely creation of diagnostic solutions for new series and reduces the development times by up to 50 percent. So far, more than 30 vehicle manufacturers worldwide already use this well-proven platform.

Bosch Grade-X – the platform and its possible applications at a glance:

Integration into existing manufacturer platforms is possible

The Grade-X platform can be integrated into existing customer platforms. It features a modular and scalable design and allows the integration of tools of other manufacturers. The platform supports several industrial standard thus allowing simple and easy data exchange. End-to-end encryption and additional security features protect it against hacker attacks and ensure safe data transfers.

Applications for troubleshooting and repair at automotive workshops

Diagnostic solutions developed via Grade-X can be used on different devices and systems – no matter whether for a telediagnoses on machinery or embedded into a control unit, whether on the workshop computer or on a tablet. These diagnostic solutions support the members of the workshop staff concerning symptom-based troubleshooting. The workshop software’s intuitive user interface can be branded individually for each manufacturer. In a step-by-step manner, it guides the user through the diagnoses. Once the mechatronic connected the diagnostic tester and identified the machine, for instance, by its serial number, he is only provided machine-specific information at the subsequent steps. As soon as the error pattern has be read out of the fault memory, Bosch-developed and innovative ActiveSchematics software creates the relevant circuit diagrams for the specific error pattern. Doing so, it only takes those components into consideration that are actually installed at the machine.