ASAM Elects New Board of Directors

ASAM e.V. (Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems) has elected a new Board of Directors on March 7, 2017.

The new ASAM Board of Directors (from left to right): Richard W. Vreeland, Marc Blatter, Armin Rupalla, Prof. Dr. Marcus Rieker und Dr. Ralf Noerenberg. (Source: ASAM)

For the next two years, Marc Blatter (Daimler AG, Chairman of the Board), Dr. Ralf Noerenberg (HighQSoft GmbH), Prof. Dr. Marcus Rieker (HORIBA Europe GmbH), Armin Rupalla (RA Consulting GmbH) and Richard W. Vreeland (Cummins Inc.) are going to take over the board activities for the standardization organization which specializes in the development of electronic control units. The common goal of the board members is to intensify internationalization, to stimulate international collaboration within working groups and to advance standardization also in new technological areas of the Automotive Industry.

ASAM is particularly active in the development and testing of vehicles. The standards define protocols, data models, data formats, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). They are used for the development and Validation of electronic control units and other vehicle components in the Automotive Industry. Interfaces in development process chains are unified in order to enable a seamless data exchange. The most important tool vendors in the areas of Simulation, Measurement, Calibration, and test automation have implemented ASAM standards in their tools.

About ASAM

ASAM is an organization in the Automotive Industry, where OEMs, suppliers and tool vendors jointly develop standards. For this purpose, ASAM offers a neutral and proven platform to organize cross-company collaboration in non-competitive areas and to market the resulting Standard for worldwide usage. Through its members, ASAM has a high degree of competence in the development of standards of interfaces, protocols, APIs, data models, data exchange formats and other important aspects of tool-driven E/E-development processes.

More than 190 companies worldwide are ASAM member, among them most of the big OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers. Approx. 75% of the members are tool vendors and service providers who offer products and services based on ASAM standards. The ASAM portfolio contains currently 25 standards – among them the proven MCD-standards (Measurement, Calibration, Diagnostics) with a market share of up to 80% worldwide.

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