Accurate Measurement and Configuration of Automotive Exterior Lighting

Automotive exterior lighting has developed significantly in recent years with far greater options provided to brands for the quality, responsiveness, and aesthetics of products. Specifying, designing, producing, and approving both functional and effect lighting requires next generation solutions for measurement in development, production, and quality control. Ultimately, external lighting must first and foremost, deliver against safety requirements for headlights, sidelights, fog lights, indicators, brake, and taillights.
 
Beyond that, new automotive lighting revolutionizes also road safety. Its future lies in glare-free high beam lights in HD quality and close interaction of the vehicle with a variety of sensors. Adaptive headlights (e.g. microAFS LED headlights) afford the driver maximum possible illumination of the travel path whilst avoiding glare to oncoming traffic by dimming the light. Modern versions with pulse-width modulated LEDs or LED modules, as used in ADB headlights, demand extremely short switching cycles for the measurement systems.
 
Konica Minolta, along with our group companies Radiant Vision Systems and Instrument Systems,  produces a range of solutions for measuring lighting and lighting assemblies in development or production environments to ensure that the lighting can be traceably measured to meet standards and deliver a high-quality user experience.

Solutions will ensure control of brightness, uniformity, and colour of all exterior lighting assemblies.

 
Traceable and trusted solutions for digital luminance data can greatly expedite the process of development, production, and QC testing. Our expert teams can help to implement a system that allows all parties, from equipment manufacturer through to QC, to work in a more streamlined and consistent way. Experience shows that a data driven approach allows supply chains to build relationships based on quality and consistency, reducing subjectivity, and simplifying specification and approval.

Offering customers a global network of sales, support, and expertise, Konica Minolta can deliver tested solutions to customers in the automotive industry. Our network of authorised service facilities provides ongoing maintenance and calibration of devices to minimise downtime and ensure that systems remain traceable throughout their working life.