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Universal data logger development

• Nov. 5, 2014
• Diederik van Dijk

Customer: Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry

Market: Light duty on highway – Europe and Asia

BRACE execution: Chassis domain cluster

Location: BRACE offices & Customer test facilities

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Concept realization of an 4x4 Vehicle's Transfer case - Thesis assignment

• Oct. 24, 2014
• Marcel Romijn

BRACE Automotive recently started a demonstrator project in cooperation with a thesis student of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Goal is to demonstrate the capabilities of BRACE in gears, bearings and housing design of a transmission. The demonstrator product will be a transfer case for a 4x4 vehicle that ...

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BRACE involvement in Special Interest Group: OBD for Heavy-Duty Diesel

• Oct. 16, 2014
• Marcel Romijn

For some time BRACE has been involved in an global industry group that focuses on diagnostic topics surrounding the non-road and heavy-duty on-highway vehicles. The group recently launched a new website including a forum.

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Choices provide growth

• Oct. 14, 2014

specialisation enabled us to service a larger area

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BRACE presented on OBD architecture at CTI Heavy-Duty Diesel Diagnostics conference 2014

• Oct. 9, 2014

This week BRACE was present in Nuremberg, Germany at the CTI conference on Heavy-Duty Duty Diesel Diagnostics. Besides a BRACE booth also a presentation was given on practical experiences in OBD architecture for these Heavy-duty vehicles for on- and off-highway.

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Meet BRACE Automotive at the "Automotive Carrièredag" October 7th 2014 at the HAN Automotive in Arhem

• Sept. 26, 2014
• Marcel Romijn

The major automotive engineering bachelor's in the Netherlands (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, Hogeschool van Rotterdam en Fontys) are organizing a Careerday in Arnhem. BRACE will be present with a booth and will give presentations to 1st year students and 4th year students.

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Brandfort go-karting challenge

• Sept. 12, 2014
• Marcel Romijn

Colleagues of ACE Ingenieurs- & Adviesbureau, BDF Talent and BRACE Automotive competed for the Brandfort Go-Karting Cup again on Thursday 11th of September 2014.

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Our colleague Bart Oosthoek was interviewed by "Carriereverhalen.nl"

• Sept. 8, 2014
• Marcel Romijn

Recently Bart was interviewed about his career path and the reasons why he likes to work at BRACE Automotive. The interview was performed by a professional journalist of the Dutch website www.carriereverhalen.nl While the interview is in Dutch below some highlights are added translated to English.

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safety recalls

• Aug. 13, 2014
• Marcel Romijn

A hot-topic in the automotive industry in the last 5 to 10 years has been the phenomenon of safety recalls. Car manufacturers ask their customers to come back with their cars for repairs or modifications. In many cases it concerns design flaws that could impact safety. Many examples exist even ...

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Hybrid, HEV, PHEV - SUV's with CO2 emissions of only 60g/km!

• July 23, 2014
• Marcel Romijn

Recently Volvo announced a version of the to be released XC90 full-size SUV that would, thanks to Plug-in Hybrid technology achieve a CO2 emissions level of only 60g/km. A good moment therefore to capture the highlights of hybrid technologies in a blog article.

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