Checking on safety

As safety moves into the spotlight, many diagnostic techniques ensure that all the elements work reliably.

The off-highway industry has made safety a central focus, coming up with new systems while also ensuring that all the safety-related components work reliably. Diagnostics are critical from the initial design phases of these systems through the entirety of their operating lifetime.

Safety includes both new technologies such as radar and cameras as well as braking and steering systems. The increasing speed and declining prices of microcontrollers let engineers do more tasks using electronic controls.