Light Vehicle Modifications Seminar

SAE-A is introducing light vehicle modifications seminar to provide you with the opportunity to get an insight into the laws, rules, processes, and standards that are applied to make a modified vehicle compliant.

Presented by engineers with endorsements in Vehicle Authorised Signatory Scheme (VASS), this seminar appeals to all with an interest in modifying vehicles ranging from hot rods, imports, or custom vehicles.

This event will be held in conjunction with Talk Torque Automotive and will include topics such as:

• Club M and SR registration requirements

• Personal import vehicles changes

• Build your own trailer

• Electric vehicle conversions

• 4WD modifications

• Individually Constructed Vehicles (ICV).

PACCAR plant tour

This event will be run by Bill Malkoutzis who is an experienced automotive engineering consultant with a strong background in vehicle and product design, testing and development. He has more than 26 years in the industry working with companies such as Ford and PBR.

In 2003 he established his own company Talk Torque Automotive which provides consultancy services to commercial clients in the automotive industry. He is also a VicRoads authorised VASS signatory. The event will be held at the Racecourse Hotel in Malvern East in Victoria on 7 July starting at 7pm the cost for members is $50, nonmembers $70 and students $30.

PACCAR Australia markets two premium brands: the heavy-duty Kenworth range and the award winning DAF range.

Kenworth vehicles have been built at the Bayswater assembly facility since 1971.

Today the Kenworth brand is a heavyduty market leader and is sold throughout Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

The company also imports DAF vehicles, one of Europe’s leading brands of medium and heavy-duty trucks.

Tour numbers are limited to 30 places only so register now.

Date: Monday 6 June 2023

Tickets: $20 for members and $50 for non members

Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Location: 64 Canterbury Road, Bayswater North 3153

General Briefs

MathWorks integration with Green Hills

MathWorks and Green Hills Software announced an integration that helps engineers design safety-related applications for the Infineon AURIX TC4x family of automotive microcontrollers using Simulink.

Engineers using the new family of microcontrollers automate compiling and building code generated by Embedded Coder using Green Hills Software’s support for AURIX, and then perform back-to-back testing using processor-in-loop (PIL) simulation.

“Electric vehicles and automated driving systems have disrupted conventional norms and introduced a generational change in the pace and scope of automotive electronics development,” said Tom Erkkinen, Product Manager, Embedded Code Generation at MathWorks. “Green Hills is a leading embedded software vendor that we collaborate with to provide highly automated tools and workflows that comply with rigorous functional safety standards, such as ISO 26262.”

Businesses manage hardware and software complexities with modern software development techniques, including virtual simulation and automated deployment. With this integration, automotive engineers move quickly from algorithm design to production deployment, knowing that the enabling tools from MathWorks and Green Hills Software support major safety standards. The ability to validate use cases, test algorithms, and automatically generate embedded software has the potential to improve organisations’ time-to-market.

“Many of our customers use MathWorks products to create algorithms for embedded systems,” said Rob Redfield, Director, Business Development at Green Hills Software. “Now, these customers not only have an easy-to-use way to run and verify these algorithms on embedded processors, but they also can debug, analyse, and optimise their code with safety-qualified optimising C/ C++ compilers and run-time libraries within the Green Hills MULTI IDE.”