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Milestone #7: Internationalization

Milestone #7: Internationalization and establishment of RA Consulting subsidiaries in China and the United States. […]

Over 3000 active customers worldwide

RA Consutling registers over 3000 active customers worldwide. The diagnostic solution Silver Snap-Tool ensures strong growth.

OBD-Symposium

OBD Symposium Europe 2024, Amsterdam

RA Consulting at OBD-EU Symposium 2024 in Amsterdam […]

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COMVEC in Schaumburg IL/USA

COMVEC is an information and networking forum aimed at keeping commercial vehicle professionals up to date on important topics such as electrification, ADAS development, advances in powertrains, emissions reduction efforts, digital and software innovations, and much more.

Attending for the first time as an exhibitor, we will present our software tools suitable for commercial vehicle diagnostics at the accompanying exhibition. The SAE-J1939 and SAE-J1979 diagnostic protocols used in commercial vehicle diagnostics have been supported by our software tools Silver Scan-Tool™, DiagRA® D and the simulation tool DiagRA® S for a very long time and are consequently used by many vehicle OEMs, engine manufacturers, transmission manufacturers and manufacturers of other components used in commercial vehicles and their development partners.

For heavy truck operators moving their vehicles in California, our Silver Snap-Tool is an important tool. It can be used to collect California legislature-defined scopes of OBD data from vehicles and transmit it securely to a CARB-operated server. Next year, this OBD data transmission will become mandatory for many heavy-duty vehicles in California, and in 2023 it may be optional as a replacement for emissions testing. Read more about the Clean Truck Check program and which vehicles it applies to here.

Interested parties, as well as active users, are cordially invited to visit us at our exhibition booth and ask questions or provide information on functionalities that will be needed in the future. You are welcome to contact us in advance. Please email us at info@rac.de.

For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://comvec.sae.org/

Official certification of our Silver Snap-Tool by CARB

Our new Silver Snap-Tool software has now received official approval from the California Air Resource Board, Heavy-Duty Inspection and Maintenance Unit. This allows RA Consulting to sell the tool to owners and fleet owners operating trucks in California. Sales will be made through RA Automotive Software Solutions, Inc, our Michigan/USA office.

The software will help truck owners complete California’s planned alternative submission process to the Periodic Smoke Inspection Program (PSIP, Title 13, California Code of Regulations (CCR), Section 2193(f)) and the Heavy Duty Inspection and Maintenance Program (HD I/M, Title 13, CCR, Section 2196.3(a)(3)).

To do this, Silver Snap-Tool reads OBD data from vehicles using SAE J1979 and SAE J1939 protocols, encrypts it, and sends it to the CARB-operated receiving server via a RA access server. CARB then analyzes the data. In close coordination with CARB, we have placed special emphasis on ease of use that avoids user error, on ensuring information security, and on encrypted data transmission and maximum protection against fraud attempts.

RA Consulting and RA Automotive Software Solutions will be exhibiting at the OBD Symposium from September 13-15, 2022 in Garden Grove, California. There we will also show the first official version of Silver Snap-Tool.

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