DICV’s new mechatronics lab at Oragadam brings 70-80% cost savings

CHENNAI Chennai: Commercial vehicle maker DICV on Monday announced the inauguration of a mechatronics lab at its Oragadam manufacturing plant in Chennai. Daimler Commercial Vehicles (DICV) said in a statement that the newly established lab will help the company accelerate product innovation and development of new software architectures for vehicles. The company said the test and validation process time will now be significantly reduced, resulting in a 70-80 per cent cost reduction along with significant improvements in software feature functionality verification and validation for trucks and buses. In addition, new technologies can be verified and validated before testing in the vehicle. Pradeep Kumar Thimmaiyan, President, Product Engineering-CTO, DICV, said, “Our new mechatronics lab marks a transformational phase in our research and development operations. The lab also serves as a hub for innovation, positioning us uniquely on the global stage.”

“Our lab can verify and validate around 300 features involving more than a thousand signals within 10 days, and verify 600 fault codes in a developed product in just a couple of weeks, which would otherwise take months. Our aim is to ensure that our software architecture is verified and validated before it is embedded in our trucks and buses, thereby saving a lot of development costs,” said Dilip Shrivastava, Head, Mechatronics-Software Technology, DICV.