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| Abbreviation | ASAM |
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| Formation | 1998 |
| Type | INGO |
| Legal status | Association |
| Purpose | International Standardization |
| Headquarters | Höhenkirchen near Munich, Germany |
Region served | Worldwide |
Membership | Automotive companies: OEMs, Suppliers, Service Providers, Universities |
Board of Directors | Armin Rupalla (Chairman) Prof. Dr. Frank Koester Dr. Ralf Noerenberg Dr. René Grosspietsch Dr. Andras Kemeny |
CEO | Marius Dupuis |
CTO | Benjamin Engel |
| Website | www.asam.net |
Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems or ASAM is an incorporated association under German law. Its members are primarily international car manufacturers, suppliers and engineering service providers from the automotive industry. The association coordinates the development of technical standards, which are developed by working groups composed of experts from its member companies. ASAM pursues the vision that the tools of a development process chain can be freely interconnected and allow a seamless exchange of data. The standards define protocols, data models, file formats and application programming interfaces (APIs) for the use in the development and testing of automotive electronic control units. A large amount of popular tools in the areas of simulation, measurement, calibration and test automation are compliant to ASAM standards. Compliance shall guarantee interoperability of tools from different vendors, allow data exchange without the need for converters, and facilitate the exchange of unambiguous specification between customers and suppliers.
ASAM standards utilize other public standards such as UML, XML and CORBA, hence remaining independent from specific IT technologies or platforms. Furthermore, ASAM closely cooperates with other organizations such as ISO and AUTOSAR.