Steve Whelan

Whelan is an experienced technical and program director who has spent 36 years in propulsion R&D in the automotive industry. He spent his first 18 years at Ricardo in the UK where he specialized in powertrain, fuels, combustion research and ICE calibration. As a technical director from 2005, he gained experience in managing an alt-fuels tech start-up company through to serial production with a major global HD vehicle OEM. He joined Tata Technologies as Global Powertrain Director in 2016. In 2018, Whelan joined Horiba, establishing and leading a new global solution development center, delivering Horiba Intelligent Lab for automating production development.

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Presentation

Intelligent labs – the future of development

The presentation will introduce the topic of development automation using new digital engineering methodologies of simulation, X-in-the-loop, digital twinning and bringing the real world into the lab. Horiba Intelligent Lab (HIL) is a package of solutions that enables more rapid and accurate development of propulsion systems for real-world efficiency, performance, emissions and range. By use of road-to-rig, XIL and digital twin methods, HIL eliminates much of the physical testing used in the development and validation of powertrain calibration. HIL delivers a reduction in development time and costs while providing a more robust and comprehensive validation of real-world attributes.