CONSAT ENGINEERING
The ASLA project strengthens
Consat’s relationship with Scania TEXT JACOB LARSSON [BORG & OWILLI] PHOTO TEO MÖLLER-NIELSEN
Over several years, Consat in Stockholm has been nurturing a good relationship with the lorry manufacturer Scania. In their largest project thus far, the partnership between the two has been further strengthened with new opportunities opening up for the Stockholm office.
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ITHIN THE MARKET for modern cars, assistance systems such as lane assist and blind-spot warnings have become standard and the same features are now in demand for trucks as well, and are even set to become a requirement under new international laws. For lorry manufacturer Scania, this means integrating new radar systems into their vehicles. To do this, they turned to Consat’s Stockholm office for help calibrating the new radar systems as part of the ASLA project. “Consat landed this project on the basis of our solid relationship with Scania over a long period of time and because we had proven ourselves to hold the technical aptitude that this task required,” says Henrik Grahn, Area Manager Production at Consat in Stockholm. To calibrate the lorries’ radar system a Doppler generator, a fan that generates soundwaves to simulate another vehicle travelling beside the lorry, is used. Consat has constructed a machine for Scania