Pickering Interfaces will showcase its range of industry-standard modular signal switching and sensor simulation solutions for electronics test and verification, including battery management system (BMS) tests at The Battery Show North America 2024 in Detroit, Michigan, USA from October 7th to 10th (Booth 4933).
Now in its 14th year, The Battery Show, co-located with the Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo, is the largest and most comprehensive advanced battery and hybrid and electric vehicle (H/EV) technology event in North America. Its expertly curated technical conference will span new methods of advanced battery design and manufacturing, as well as forecasts on market supply chain, and the regulatory outlook.
The event brings together battery and EV/HEV manufacturers, industry experts, thought leaders and academics to help solve manufacturing, supply chain, and production challenges.
More than 19,000 professionals and decision-makers will be able to discover the latest products, technology, and solutions from almost 1,200 suppliers.
The BMS HIL test demo includes the following Pickering products:
- PXI battery simulator module – to simulate batteries in a stacked architecture
- PXI fault insertion module – to simulate cell shorts and broken wires
- High-power, high-voltage, and high-current PXI switching modules
- Modules housed in an LXI chassis with supporting cables and connectors
Outlining the EV BMS test rig demo, Paul Bovingdon, simulation product manager at Pickering, explains: “With the increasing adoption of EVs, one significant challenge to be tackled is the effective testing and validation of BMS. Using modular, PXI-based switch and simulation modules offers many advantages for BMS HIL [hardware-in-the-loop] test, including flexibility to optimize the test system to meet exact requirements; simple modification to address evolving needs; and an open, industry-standard architecture that promotes system longevity and mitigates obsolescence, while providing seamless integration of multi-vendor instrumentation modules.”
Alongside Pickering’s BMS demo, trusted integration partner, DMC, Inc., an engineering consulting firm specializing in automated test systems, will also showcase its own HIL BMS test rig, which includes Pickering’s PXI-based switching and simulation modules.
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