Benefits of ASAM Standards

Competition stimulates technical progress and is a driving force for creating better products at lower prices. This general rule is true for wide areas of our economy, but it is not true for every area. If a specific technology is actually not discernible by its users, then competition looses its purpose. For example, the end user of a car does not care in which language one ECU talks to another, in which format Measurement data is stored on the OEM's server or whether a diagnostic trouble code has the value $3F or $F3. Competition in engineering ingenuity and creativity does not lead to progress here and does not create value for anyone. It actually leads to the opposite: multiple solutions for the same problem, incompatible systems, conversion losses, porting efforts, explosion of variants, and a drain of resources away from the company's core business.

Standards can harness this problem and bring the engineering focus back on track where it counts. At ASAM, we specialize in standards primarily for the Automotive industry. Experts from ASAM member companies have created in the past 20+ years standards for the development and test of automotive E/E systems. They have significantly reduced costs and efforts at OEMs and Tier-1 companies for the development, maintenance and administration of development tool chains. ASAM standards have created a global market for tool vendors, which where able to turn customer-specific tool development projects into universally saleable products for the global automotive market.