Transmission Application

Interfaces of the department Transmission Application

General

The Transmission Application team of GIF offers you support for all engineering and development problems and tasks especially for automatic transmissions. Our fields of activity are:

• Development and construction of stepped automatic transmission or CVT (Type CRT) to customers requirements
• Management of all development tasks for external customers
• Testing and sign-off of existing transmissions
• Layout and development of transmission electronic control units
• Application of allocated components like shifter, cooling etc
• Transmission calibration
• Vehicle application

Technical Description

Special main tasks at the development at GIF are calibration and vehicle application of automatic transmissions. At these tasks we have year-long experiences with several customers.

For these activities some important development steps are listed below:

Transmission Calibration

Transmission Calibration

• Development and execution of work plans for calibration
• Development of drive strategies according to customer requirements
• Definition of shift schedules for all drive modes
• On rig and vehicle transmission calibration
• Preparation and execution of climate trips
• On board diagnostics (OBD) development
• Calibration sign-off and documentation

Vehicle Application

• Communication and cooperation with Vehicle team
• Installation of transmission and components into prototype vehicles
• Development of transmission cooling and venting system
• Functional and durability testing in vehicle
• Release of A/T and all components and sign-off
• Homologation testing and documentation
• Organization and execution of fleet testing

GIF is also working on the conception and development on hybrid power trains. On request please get in contact with the responsible team within the department Transmission Application department.