Increased efficiency for complex development processes
and audit security for your development data!
EXOKNOX is a flexibly customisable data management system for physical and technical property data of mechatronic systems.
Increased efficiency for your development processes
The functional development of a vehicle has to fulfil many, in some cases conflicting, objectives and disciplines. These include NVH, driving dynamics, ride comfort and operational stability. The ideal interaction of components and systems is crucial here. Simulation methods such as MKS and FEM analyse variants and increase the level of maturity.
Functional data forms the basis for all development disciplines. They describe the technical and physical properties of components and systems. They are also known as technology or parameter data. EXOKNOX increases the efficiency of development loops and simulation campaigns through data management specially adapted to functional data.
A secure home for the entire vehicle DNA
The digital release or certification of vehicles and subsystems creates new requirements for applied data in terms of traceability and long-term archiving capability. In EXOKNOX, all data used for a simulation can be traced back – from the data prepared for the respective modelling approach to the actual data provided and the original functional requirements in the form of target data. Released data can no longer be deleted, the ‘audit trail’ always remains intact.
For long-term data availability, we rely on standards such as ASAM ODS.
For experts from experts
EXOKNOX was developed by calculation engineers from the automotive industry and experienced software engineers from Karakun. We have set ourselves the goal of revealing the secrets behind complex technical systems because we are software engineers, mechanical engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians. We want to help our customers quickly understand and analyse complex links in product development. With our products, we want to enable our customers to
- break down silos to contextualise the information and knowledge stored there.
- allow engineers to focus on the actual development work – don’t waste time collecting relevant data.
- Shift their focus to product maturity development.
This is EXOKNOX
Closed Process Chain
EXOKNOX supports the enhancement of functional maturity of components and systems across multiple development phases.
- Requirements Management Based on Target Data
Employees from various development disciplines, such as NVH, dynamics, or durability, can document their functional requirements. This enables component-responsible employees to identify and resolve conflicts early. They can also create consolidated target data and share it with the development team. - Supplier Integration
Through integrated order and delivery management, both internal and external data suppliers are incorporated into the process chain. - Actual data is always stored in EXOKNOX with comprehensive metadata, ensuring independent data reuse regardless of the individual.
- Automated Quality Control
Only quality-verified data can be efficiently used in the development process. EXOKNOX therefore offers various approaches to automatically validate actual data against target data.
Product Data Management Principles
EXOKNOX supports collaborative work in distributed development environments through various functions:
- Data statuses such as ‘In progress’ or ‘Released’ control their visibility for user groups and provide information about their level of maturity.
- Tags support your developers in searching for data and controlling downstream processes.
- Versioning gives you transparency regarding modifications to data objects.
Single-Source Principle
EXOKNOX provides centralized access to all functional data. Thanks to the on-premises model, you always retain control over your data.
Powerful Interfaces
- FDX
EXOKNOX uses the FDX format for integrated order and delivery management, which is standardised by the VDA and the prostep ivip association. - XML
Our universal format for connecting processes of all kinds is based on XML. We call it EXOXML and use it, for example, to import inventory data or export data for parameterising simulation models.
Your benefits with EXOKNOX
Transparency in terms of the data to be used for a specific task:
No need for time-consuming coordination. Our product data management features and our tagging mechanism are key to this.
Automation of the parameterisation of comprehensive simulation models:
Our customers have saved up to 75% of time in this area. EXOKNOX can be connected to simulation data management systems and geometry PDM systems via interfaces.
Mastering of calibration variants in real tests:
EXOKNOX can be connected to test databases via interfaces for this purpose.
Provisioning of function data:
With EXOKNOX, component responsibles provide functional data centrally for their internal data customers through supplier integration.
Variations
To ensure that the closed process chain can be used by data customers and data suppliers across companies, we provide EXOKNOXfree free of charge in addition to our main product EXOKNOXhub. Our product portfolio is rounded off by EXOKNOXlite. This variant is not designed for productive use. We use it as a test environment to harmonise new data models and prepare existing data imports into EXOKNOXhub with our customers.
EXOKNOXhub is a multi-user system based on a client-server architecture.
EXOKNOXfree is limited single-user system that works file-based.
Our company
EXOKNOX is a Stuttgart-based Software Company
Our company was founded at the beginning of 2019 in Stuttgart. You can still find us in Stuttgart-Vaihingen at Waldburgstraße 17/19. Since May 2021, we have been part of the Karakun Group, which was previously our long-standing development partner. This enables us to combine decades of experience in the fields of software and automotive development.
About Karakun
Karakun operates in a constantly changing, high-tech environment. Nevertheless, for us as a group of companies, people – our employees, partners and customers – are at the centre of everything we do. We see ourselves as problem solvers based on partnership with firm values and principles. We stand for honest, open, transparent and prompt communication with all relevant stakeholders. We have flat hierarchies and communicate correspondingly.
Visit www.karakun.com for more information.