Craig Balis on latest trends and innovations in Automotive at CES 2019 | Garrett - Advancing Motion

🎥 Jan 10, 2019 📺 Garrett - Advancing Motion ⏱ 3m 👁 777 views

Craig Balis, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Garrett – Advancing Motion, at the Consumer Electronics Show ...

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About Craig Balis

At the 2022 IAA Transportation show in Hanover, Balis stated that Garrett Motion has developed in-house capabilities in high-speed turbo machinery, high-speed electric motors, advanced power electronics, and model predictive controls, describing the company as now a "mechanical, electrical, and software company." He identified three powertrain trends at the show: Euro 7 emissions reduction, continuing electrification, and a "big acceleration of activity on hydrogen" in both fuel cells and hydrogen internal combustion engines. Balis noted that Garrett is working with customers on turbocharger solutions for hydrogen internal combustion engines and that its e-turbo technology, initially used in light vehicles, is being adapted for commercial vehicles using 48-volt architectures. He also said Garrett was an early pioneer in high-speed electrical compressors for fuel cells. Speaking at CES 2019, Balis described autonomy, connectivity, and electrification as three megatrends that introduce new capabilities but also "an order of magnitude increase in both complexity and criticality." He stated that a fully connected vehicle becomes exposed to the risk of external hackers, and that Garrett has developed a portfolio of monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and analysis solutions to maintain vehicle integrity. Balis said the company's platform can "detect, diagnose, predict, protect and analyze vehicle anomalies at all times, in all conditions, on all systems," and that this helps automakers and fleet operators deliver safer connected, autonomous, and electrified vehicles while reducing operational and warranty expenses.

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Hello from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas 2019. I'm Craig Balis, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Garrett Advancing Motion. It's CES, the latest and greatest in consumer electronics innovations are on display, and this certainly includes the automotive industry. Indeed, today's vehicle is becoming a consumer electronics device. As soon as you can pair your phone with your car, you have a connected vehicle. Tomorrow, our computing power, Ethernet, 5G, Wi-Fi, and many other technologies will enable vehicles to interact with their surroundings, drive autonomously, and provide new capabilities we cannot imagine today. At the same time, rapid growth and electrification of vehicle drive trains through hybrid, battery, and fuel cell power trains will deliver new levels of fuel efficiency, cleanliness, and performance of future vehicles. These three megatrends—autonomy, connectivity, and electrification—introduce exciting new capabilities and technologies, but they also mean an order of magnitude increase in both complexity and criticality. And with this come serious challenges for ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of these new vehicles. For example, when fully networked internally and at the same time fully connected to the outside world, a vehicle becomes broadly exposed to the dangers of external hackers seeking to compromise its operation or to steal its data and information. And all these new technologies interconnected into highly advanced systems will require a new level of sophistication to control them, optimize them, diagnose them, and proactively maintain them. As a recognized technology leader in the industry, Garrett Advancing Motion has developed a unique portfolio of monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and analysis solutions that focus on maintaining vehicle integrity. Garrett has created a differentiated and patented platform gathering unique capabilities in system modeling, advanced controls, pattern recognition, fault modeling, diagnostic reasoning, and analytics. This, combined with our established expertise in the automotive domain spanning six decades, makes us uniquely positioned to deliver these solutions. With this, we can detect, diagnose, predict, protect, and analyze vehicle anomalies at all times, in all conditions, on all systems. In doing so, automakers and fleet operators can deliver on the promise of reliable and safer connected, autonomous, and electrified vehicles while reducing operational and warranty expenses. The entire Garrett team of experts are ready to help our customers in advancing the state of the art in motion.