Diagnostic Systems for Agricultural Equipment

Several factors (changing operator skills, changing legislation, and changing technology among others) are creating the need for improved vehicle diagnostic systems.

There are many difficulties in designing good diagnostic systems that incorporate the optimum compromise between effectiveness in locating a fault, and test hardware overhead. Before such a compromise can be arrived at, it is necessary to move away from the add-on approach to diagnostic hardware, and treat failure detection, isolation, and repair as a total system that pulls together vehicle, dealer, and factory capabilities.