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DG Technologies and SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress (COMVEC)

September 5, 2019Product NewsNick Kozoro

DG Technologies and SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress (COMVEC)

On September 9^th through September 11^th, 2019, DG Technologies will be attending SAE COMVEC at the JW Marriott in Indianapolis. At 5:45pm on Monday, September 9th, DG Technologies President, Mark Zachos will be having a 15 minute “Ted Talk” about Cybersecurity in the Exhibit Hall during the Welcome Reception at the Softing Automotive Electronics booth #202. Please stop by, listen, comment and contribute your thoughts on #vehiclecyber.

Mr. Zachos will also be a Panelist in the White River Ballroom A/B/C at 12:45 on Wednesday September 11, for the Cybersecurity Panel – How Would You Prevent This Breach? This should be a very important session to understand what the industry is doing to keep people, our products and our industry safe.

‘COMVEC is the convening point for the community developing vehicles and equipment spanning the on-highway, off-highway, ground defense and mining sectors. COMVEC covers the latest and critical need-to-know information impacting global commercial vehicles today and into the future.’

DG Technologies attends COMVEC to promote professional interaction and collaboration with the industry’s most influential audience. COMVEC routinely attracts more than 650 attendees in the commercial vehicle market.

For more information on DG Technologies and COMVEC19, contact the DG Technologies sales team at sales@dgtech.com

For further information:
DG Technologies
33604 West Eight Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
1-248-888-2000
info@dgtech.com

General Contact:
Mr. John McNelis
Sales and Marketing Manager
jmcnelis@dgtech.com

CAN and Heavy Duty Protocol Training

August 30, 2019Product NewsNick Kozoro

CAN and Heavy Duty Protocol Training

Who should attend: Anyone who wants to gain an advanced knowledge of vehicle electronic network protocol communication. This knowledge can be used by OEM, Tier suppliers, Body Builders, Government and independent engineers seeking to maintain, modify or simply understand the message structure, architecture and strategy being used in vehicles today.

What attendees learn: The fundamentals required for developing Vehicle Communications Protocols.

When: Sept. 30 – Oct. 1, 2019
Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Where: DG Technologies
33604 West 8 Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48335

Major Topics in the Course Outline

Terminology Preview
On-Vehicle Networking History
Computer Science Fundamentals Required for Vehicle Protocols
J1708/J1587
CAN (ISO11898)
J1939
The Next Generation of CAN, CAN FD (CAN with Flexible Data Rate)
TMC RP1210 and J2534
Validation Tools and Diagnostics
Protocol Layering, Physical Layers, /11 – Shielded Twisted Pair, /15 – J1939 Lite, /14 – J1939@500k
Data Link Layer, Network Addressing, Transport Layer, Message Layer, Diagnostic Layer
Hands-on Lab Exercises

Instructor: Mark Zachos

Mr. Zachos has over 30 years of experience in automotive electronics, cyber security, vehicle diagnostics and communications. He has authored many technical papers on On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) and in-vehicle networking; he holds more than 10 patents on vehicle communications technology. Mark is the Head of USA Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the International Standards Organization (ISO) Road Vehicle Electronics Standards Sub-committee; he is a member of TMC, SAE and IEEE. Mark is the chairman of several technical standards teams including: the ATA TMC Fleet Maintenance Cyber Security Task Force, SAE J1939 Network Security Task Force, SAE J3005 (OBD “dongle” security), SAE Data Link Connector Security Committee (J3138 “hardening the OBD port”) and co-chair of ISO/TC22/SC31/WG2/PT-Security. He is a member of the Oakland County (MI) Connected Vehicle Task Force focusing on secure connected vehicle deployment; teaches embedded programming, CANbus and vehicle cyber security at The University of Michigan; instructs hackers at the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – GVSC CyberTruck Challenge; and established CyberTech – the TMC service technician troubleshooting skills challenge for identifying and repairing vehicle cyber hacks.

To register for the CAN and Heavy Duty Protocol Training Course, complete the form here and email it to sales@dgtech.com. Contact our sales team at 248-888-2000 for corporate discount offers!

For further information:
DG Technologies
33604 West Eight Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
1-248-888-2000
info@dgtech.com

General Contact:
Mr. John McNelis
Sales and Marketing Manager
jmcnelis@dgtech.com

DG Technologies Gryphon G2 End of Life Notification

July 5, 2019Product NewsMeghanf

DG Technologies Gryphon G2 End of Life Notification

DG Technologies Acquires Synercon Technologies

March 8, 2019Product NewsMeghanf

PRESS RELEASE Farmington Hills, MI, USA, March 07, 2019 – DG Technologies Acquires Synercon Technologies

ANNOUNCEMENT: Dearborn Group Inc., dba DG Technologies has acquired Synercon Technologies, LLC. DG Technologies is a world leader in vehicle networking services and tools. Over a 30 year history, DG’s founder, Mark Zachos, has grown the company to a global leader servicing the transportation industry with development, diagnostics, testing, cybersecurity, and vehicle forensics products and services.

The combination of technologies, services and cultures of the two companies creates an opportunity to easily integrate, expand and grow the combined product lines. DG Technologies is committed to enhancing the core mission of both companies which will better integrate customer support for all products and create opportunity to advance product development.

“The acquisition and integration of Synercon Technologies will assist in advancing product support, technology growth and customer service in the fields of heavy vehicle event data recorder (HVEDR) forensics, transportation cybersecurity, and vehicle network technology. We are excited to carry on the legacy of the Forensic Link Adapter (FLA) and begin new product introductions to support customer needs. We will work to create more efficiencies and savings from the integration of processes and other functions that will help us offer the industry a better value moving forward.” said Zachos.

Dr. Jeremy Daily will continue with the new Synercon Technologies team as the lead Technology Officer, creating and enhancing new ideas while offering his exceptional support and training to all customers. “The products and services of Synercon Technologies combined with the knowledge, history and processes of DG Technologies will lead to greater world class services and innovations for the new company” said Dr. Daily. “I’m very happy to be continuing on with DG Technologies to carry forward our ideas and support our customers who have become trusted partners and friends over the years”.

Synercon Technologies will remain a standalone business entity along with DG Technologies under the Dearborn Group, Inc. company. Synercon Technologies will now have offices in Broken Arrow, OK, Farmington Hills, MI, Indianapolis, IN, and other service, support and sales offices globally.

DG Technologies, a diagnostics and vehicle network solutions provider for over 30 years, has worked in association with, and alongside many domestic and foreign OEMs, and Tier 1 & 2 suppliers to the automotive, heavy-duty, agriculture, off-road, cybersecurity and recreational vehicle transportation markets. DG Technologies has a long affiliation and ties to SAE International, American Trucking Association’s (ATA’s) Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC), tier 1 & 2 supplier organizations, and is a leading provider of aftermarket diagnostic products, engineering development tools, DG CyberTech and heavy vehicle digital forensics.

For further information:
DG Technologies
33604 West Eight Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
1-248-888-2000
info@dgtech.com

General Contact:
Mr. John McNelis
Sales and Marketing Manager
jmcnelis@dgtech.com

DG Technologies Partners with Softing Automotive

February 26, 2019Product NewsMeghanf

DG Technologies and Softing Automotive Announce Strategic Partnership

Farmington Hills/Munich , February 26, 2019– DG Technologies and Softing Automotive can proudly announce today the new strategic partnership for joint NAFTA operations.

The collaboration enables both partners to meet relevant industry requirements and react to the rapidly growing demand, particularly in the U.S. and Canada. The collaboration allows DG Technologies and Softing Automotive to both leverage products and services, which complement each other and can be combined in product offering and solutions for customers in the fields of diagnostics and vehicle communication security. This allows the new alliance to combine relevant industry requirements as well as market specific demands.

Besides collaborating in providing turnkey solutions, the strategic partnership also includes a close collaboration on new service offerings and high-quality on-site engineering support.

About DG Technologies

DG Technologies has a long affiliation and ties to SAE International, ATAs’ Technology & Maintenance Council, Tier 1 & 2 supplier organizations, and is a leading provider of Aftermarket diagnostic products, Engineering development tools, DG CyberTech and Heavy Vehicle Digital Forensics.

About Softing Automotive Electronics GmbH

With its core areas of expertise in diagnostics, measurement, testing and communication, Softing Automotive is all about standardized key technologies in automotive electronics industry including passenger cars, commercial vehicles (trucks and buses) and non-road mobile machinery (agricultural, construction and forestry).

Sales@dgtech.com
248.888.2000
33604 W 8 Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48335

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Coming Soon!

May 17, 2016Product NewsMeghanf

DG Technologies would like to introduce the NEW d-briDGe Pro

Your next generation tool for reprogramming and diagnostics to essentially all J2534 compliant 2004 and newer domestic, Asian and European vehicles.
Including HONDA!

Stay tuned for updates and visit our d-briDGe Pro page for more info

Netbridge

March 11, 2016Product NewsJason Sodergren

Netbridge is DG’s latest 4 CAN channel vehicle network interface tool that includes both SAE J2534 and TMC RP1210 Drivers. This versatile tool is a low-cost, efficient way to retrieve the essential CAN data needed for engineering and developing vehicle networks by gaining access to standards-based vehicle applications.