Technical Committee Report

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Technical Committee Report

• April 27, 2005

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Vertical Group Structure

• Structure
• Acting Technical Manager - Charlie Gorman
• Scan Tool Group Chair - John Haralamos
• Scan Tool Group Tech Chair - Jim Kjeer
• Underhood Technology Group Chair Mike Cable
• 42 Volt Subcommittee Chair Mike Troy
• I/M Subcommittee Chair - Open
• A/C Subcommittee Chair Barry Harrison
• Under Car Group Chair Don Vanderhayden
• Collision Group Chair Sylvan Julien
• Collision Group Tech Chair Tim Morgan
• Shop Management Information Software Group
  Glenn Long

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Scan Tool Group Activity

• Scan tool companies are very dependent on OEM
  information access
• HD OBD Carb Rule
• NASTF effort
• Collaboration effort with EGEA in Europe and
  JAMTA in Japan
• Met with EGEA at Automechanika in Frankfurt
• Met with Jamta at Japan Tech Week
• SAE Participation
• Congress earlier this month
• Government and Industry May Meeting 11

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Scan Tool Group Activity (Continued)

• ISO Participation
• TF5 Right now ETI is on the mailing list. That
  may not work in the future. We may have to
  become more active. In order for me to continue
  to provide updates I will have to officially join
  and attend at least one meeting per year.
  (Vetronix Santa Barbara)
• There are two new task forces - TF10 and TF11
  MVCI and ODX respectively. These will become
  important to ETI Scan Tool members.
• GM License update
• EPA and CARB letters have been sent to Rob Brown
  instructing them that they failed to justify
  their fee structure. They are to submit a
  different plan to EPA and CARB.
• CARB meeting here at ToolTech
• Regarding vehicle communication issues
  encountered during the certification process.

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Underhood Technology Group Activity

• I/M Subcommittee
• I/M flow chart still being worked on by Bernie
  Carr and Mike McCarthy. We should see it soon
• CAN implementation charts turned over to Sierra
  Research at the request of the states that want
  to use this information for a type of fraud
  detection.
• Attempted to charge for I/M report. We will
  probably make it free again and add OBD testing
  implementation schedules including protocols
  covered
• Will be guest speaker and participate in CITA
  conference in late May in Chicago
• 42 Volt Committee
• No activity
• A/C Committee
• We allowed the Mobile Air Conditioning Society to
  borrow our CAN implementation charts for an
  article in there newsletter, otherwise no activity

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Under Car Group Activity

• Tech Week New Product Guidelines (NPIGs) updated
  to include Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems
• Presentation on TPMS needs given on behalf of ETI
  members at the 2004 SEMA show in Las Vegas

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Collision Repair Group

• Vertical group is attempting to duplicate
  domestic relations with Asian carmakers in order
  to improve Japan Tech Week Collision content.
• There is a new emphasis on getting OEM
  dimensional drawings in electronic format.
• These will be stored in the TEK-NET Library

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Shop Management Information Software Group

• Trying to get CARB to recognize third party
  information providers as covered persons under
  future revisions of the service information
  rulemaking
• ETI is looking into what kind of collaboration
  among member companies is possible regarding the
  prosecution of entities involved in software
  piracy

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Detroit Tech Week

• Dates are June 21 to 24
• Web based sign up sheet has been available for a
  couple of months now
• Headquarter Hotel is the Doubletree in Romulus
  very near the airport
• Banquet (Henry Ford Museum) (25th anniversary)
• GM collision is back on, but scan tool meeting is
  only for the seven licensees
• Volvo Participation is planned but not secure yet
• VW will be sending their engineers from Germany
  again
• Gangolf Feiter (GM Europe and ISO TF5 chairman)
  is going to try to make it to do a presentation
  on ODX and MVCI
• We need to get going on inviting some of Tech
  Week founders to the banquet.

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Japan Tech Week

• Dates Monday, December 5, 2005 - Thursday,
  December 8, 2005
• This year it will be in the USA
• The Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach, CA has been
  chosen again.
• We are in the process of getting Hino and
  Mitsubishi Fuso involved due to future HD OBD
  regulations
• Planning meetings need to be scheduled
• (1) ETI and JAMA some time in early July
• (2) California in October

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TEK-NET Library Update

• Library now contains all files including both
  2004 Tech Weeks.
• New scan tool members receive entire library once
  all membership requirements are met.
• Projects we are behind on
• Categorize, index and review all documents
  received since 1998
• Place all files and index on CD powered by
  database
• Starting with this Tech Week we are going to be
  asking for electronic body drawings for the
  Collision Repair Group