Ktm - Motorcycle Development

The Customer

The KTM-Sportmotorcycle AG with registered office in Mattighofen,

Austria produces and develops race-ready offroad

and street motorcycles. KTM is the largest motorcycle

manufacturer in Europe and a leader in the offroad competition

sector. In MY 2014, the 1190 Adventure has been

turned into what is currently the world‘s safest motorcycle.

The Challenge

Consistent creation, management, and distribution of diagnostic

data throughout the diagnostic development process

In the development of the new 1190 Adventure, and its up to

9 ECUs, an optimization of the diagnostic development process

should be performed. In previous development projects,

diagnostics was specified in text form at KTM. Automated

further processing of the specification was therefore not possible.

Rather, the ECU specification required time-consuming

interpretation and conversion into input data for the utilized

diagnostic testers both internally at KTM as well as at the ECU

suppliers. Thus diagnostic testers in development, production,

and service became available only at a late stage.

The Solution

The CANdela approach – a standardized diagnostic data

format and the corresponding tool chain

CANdelaStudio is used as a central component of the CANdela

approach in the development of diagnostics for the new 1190

Adventure motorcycle. The KTM developers use this to specify

diagnostic data in machine-processable CDD format (XML).

Thus these data are available at an early stage as input data

for many tools throughout the diagnostic development process.

Text-based specifications can be generated also out of

the CANdela description and forwarded as needed to KTM suppliers

still at the same time.

The Advantages

A standardized diagnostic data format and the Frontloading

Appraoch