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ETI
Activity Update
Charlie Gorman - ETI
- November/December, 2013
This year's Winter
Tech Week will be in Newport Beach, California. Dates are Tuesday,
December 3 to Thursday December 5, 2013.
The Appreciation Dinner will take place at the Marconi Automotive
Museum and Foundation for Kids in Tustin, CA.
Click here
for more info.
Summer Tech Week 2014 will take place on the week of June 9, 2014.
Summer
Tech Week planning is under way. We are happy to report that we
will be using the newly refurbished Walter P. Chrysler Museum for the
Appreciation Banquet. The Troy Embassy Suites will be used as our
headquarter hotel again this year. (they have promised to have
fully operational elevators this year)
We will be sheduling planning meetings with the OEMs for around mid
February as we have in the past. If there are topics you would
like to see covered, or you have specific questions or data
requests. get them to me as soon as possible.
Several trade
associations serving the aftermarket have formed a Telematics Task Force dedicated to the interests of their
members and the motoring public. The sponsoring participants of the
Aftermarket Telematics Task Force are the Automotive Aftermarket
Industry Association (AAIA); the Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers
Association (AASA); the Automotive International Association (AIA) of
Canada; the Automotive Maintenance and Repair Association (AMRA) and
the Equipment and Tool Institute (ETI).
On behalf
of their members, the sponsors of the Telematics Task Force want to
preserve aftermarket access to the diagnostic systems of the vehicle
and preserve complete freedom for consumers to choose where the
information from their vehicle is directed.
With the position that it’s “Your Car … Your Data”, the Task Force was
formed to provide assistance to the automotive community
toward the development of a technical solution that protects the
consumers’ freedom to choose where their data is directed while also
protecting the vehicle against any malware or unauthorized electronic
access.
ETC (Equipment & Tool Committee) Greg Potter - Co-Chairman
In reviewing the minutes of the May meeting, clarification was made to
the Committee that the current charter/mission statement (found at
www.nastf.org/committees/ETC) of the ETC remains valid and that
jurisdiction over issues relating to OEM scan tools properly resides
with the NASTF Service Information Committee (SIC). Co-chair Donny
Seyfer continues to lead a partnership initiative between the ASA
Mechanical Ops Committee and NASTF titled “OEM Scan Tool Information
Resource Center” which should be introduced to both the NASTF and ASA
websites by January 2014.
Greg Potter introduced the Committee to a new ETC initiative intended
to replace the out-dated NASTF Tool Maker’s Matrix. The initiative will
be a joint effort with the Equipment and Tool Institute (ETI); intended
to replace the current NASTF system which has become more work for the
OEMs than it’s worth to tool-makers, with a system that assumes OEMs do
make all tool-building data available to tool-makers so we can focus on
resolving exceptions. The ETI component will be the Scan Tool
Information Request (STIR) and will be administered by an ETI committee
of technical volunteers. The NASTF Service Information Request (SIR)
system will be used by that Committee to seek resolution of tool-maker
issues not resolved within the STIR process. A copy of the MS
Powerpoint presentation (in pdf format) used to introduce this concept
can be found at
http://www.nastf.org/files/public/Governance/ETC-STIR131106.pdf.
ETI
expects STIR to be operational by April 1, 2014.
The Committee instructed removal of navigation to the old matrix from
nastf.org and Greg Potter committed to providing explanatory text for
the Tool-Maker’s Reference page.
The Committee adopted its 2014 conference call meeting schedule with
all meetings at 11am ET/8am PT on a Wednesday of every quarter as
follows: February 26, May 28, August 27, and November 19. Approximately
2-weeks in advance of each of these conference calls, NASTF staff will
email ETC Members on record with call-in/web-in details and a draft
agenda.
The Collision Repair
Survey has been completed, approved by the marketing committee and is
in the final editing stage before it goes to the facilitator. We
asked some of the same questions as the last
Collision survey with the idea of seeing what has changed and added a
new materials methods and procedures section to find out what impact
these new things have had on collision repair shops. The results of the
survey will be presented at ToolTech in April.
The second Survey on
telematics will be completly different from what we have done in the
past. In the course of discussions in the Marketing Committee and
the Board of Directors it was determined that if we want to reach
consumers, something we think we must do, we are going to have to do a different kind of survey.
It was suggested and approved to use focus groups rather than large
email lists. For one thing motorists cannot all be thrown
together into one category. Certainly a DYI person has different
expectations of telematics than a teenager driving a parent's car.
Our next task is to determine the different groups we want to cature
and then develop what it is we want to learn from each group. We
will also be looking for a facilitator to help in this effort.
Elections of Officers and Directors:
ETI election process
begins in January when the call for nominations goes out. From there
the Nominating Committee will prepare a slate which is
approved/disapproved by the Executive Committee and alternative slates
will be requested for ten days after that. The election will take
place in April, with the new board members and officers to be announced at the Membership Meeting at ToolTech on April 28, 2014.
Dues Invoices will be sent out in mid-December:
Membership
Dues Invoices for 2014 will be emailed out mid-December. These invoices
go out to those who are listed as the Accounts Receivable person for your
company in our records. If you have questions about your invoice,
contact Trisha immediately.
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