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01.12.2020 | Cover Story
"Powertrain development always involves interdisciplinary teamwork"
Erschienen in: ATZ worldwide | Ausgabe 12/2020
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Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach that allows complex systems to be developed more efficiently. Hybrid drives in cars are complicated systems of this kind and their subsystems, which include a gasoline engine, an electric motor and a battery, require careful coordination during the testing process. In the ATZ interview, Dr. Gerald Eifler from ElringKlinger Motortechnik explains how the complexity of these systems can be managed. He describes the benefits that his company's new powertrain test rig offers when taking RDE measurements for plug-in hybrids and looks at why all of this depends to a large extent on how well the interfaces are defined.
Dr. Gerald Eifler (born in 1957) has been Managing Director of ElringKlinger Motortechnik GmbH in Idstein (Germany) since 1997. After successfully completing a mechanical engineering degree at RWTH Aachen University in 1983, he stayed on there until 1991 to take his doctorate on the subject of "Exhaust gas recirculation in small, high-revving, direct injection diesel engines" at the department of applied thermodynamics, while working at the same time. He began his first job in 1983 as Development Engineer at FEV in Aachen, where he became Group Consultant in 1990 and Group Leader in 1991. From 1994 to 1997 he was owner and Managing Director of Sänger GmbH, a control and data engineering company in Taunusstein. In his current role as Managing Director, he is responsible for 40 employees in Idstein and a further ten in Bietigheim-Bissingen.
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