FRANKENMUTH, Mich. April 5, 2024 – DG Technologies product specialist and education coordinator Mark Pope was in Frankenmuth in February and awarded the winning mid-Michigan school with the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Collegiate Cup.

The cup is presented each year at the SAE Mid-Michigan’s National Engineers Week Annual Banquet and Meeting to the team that places highest in the SAE Collegiate Chapter Project Presentation Competition at the annual meeting. The event’s competition is judged based on the quality of the oral presentation of the teams’ “Design Series” projects, with top honors this year going to Saginaw Valley State University.

Attendees and judges saw presentations by Central Michigan and Kettering universities’ teams for their BAJA SAE Series, in which each team designed and built a prototype of an all-weather, rugged, single-seat, off road recreational vehicle for competition this fall. Students from Central Michigan, Kettering and Saginaw Valley State universities gave presentations on their work in the Formula SAE Series, for which they conceived, designed, fabricated and developed small formula-style vehicles for competition this May. And students from Kettering presented on their participation, in partnership with General Motors, for the AutoDrive Challenge, in which they developed a full autonomous driving passenger vehicle to navigate an urban driving course this summer.

“They actually use what they learn in the classroom to build these vehicles,” Pope said of the student competitors. Pope, one of many at DG Technologies who volunteers time and expertise with SAE, organized and presided over the banquet meeting this year.

Pope noted that companies hire students from these competitions because they know the students already have training and experience. “They know they can hit the ground running,” he said.

DG Technologies works in association with many domestic and foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and tier 1 and 2 suppliers to the automotive, heavy-duty, agriculture, off-road, cybersecurity, military and recreational vehicle transportation markets and has a long affiliation with SAE International, the American Trucking Association’s Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) and tier 1 and 2 supplier organizations. The company is a leading provider of secure aftermarket diagnostic products, engineering development tools and heavy-duty vehicle digital forensics. In 2019, DG Technologies’ parent company, the Dearborn Group Inc., acquired Synercon Technologies, which specializes in vehicle crash data extraction. Zachos runs both companies from his offices in Farmington Hills, Mich.

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NEW ORLEANS, March 8, 2024 – Mark Zachos, president of DG Technologies, was in New Orleans this week leading the conversation on cybersecurity in the trucking industry for the American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council’s (TMC) Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition.

Zachos, an expert in the fields of in-vehicle communications and vehicle cybersecurity, is the chair of TMC’s Cybersecurity Issues Task Force, a position he has held for the last five years. He and DG Technologies design technology for in-vehicle networks in the automotive and trucking industries, including secure diagnostics, reprogramming and data extraction devices and tools. A Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) fellow and past chairman of SAE’s Detroit Section, Zachos also teaches at University of Detroit Mercy and is the director of the school’s Vehicle Cyber Engineering Lab, which he helped create.

The Cybersecurity Issues Task Force was commissioned this week with looking at exploring preventive cybersecurity methods, developing guidelines for fleets to create their own cybersecurity programs, standardizing over-the-air engine control module (ECM) programming through specific protocols that allow fail safe options and secure messaging, working with other associations to strengthen related standards by fleet user influence and examining the development of a reporting and responding alert program for industry users.

Cyber threats come in many forms and with varying motives, Zachos said. Some cyber criminals are looking for private or proprietary data to sell on the dark net or to leverage as ransom from companies, while in other cases, the threats might originate from another country’s efforts to undermine the United States’ logistical systems or infrastructure.

Zachos explained that while cybersecurity on the I.T. side of many companies often is tight, the potential threats on the maintenance side are not as well understood. “It’s kind of new ground,” he said.

“The idea is that in a truck you have the electronic control units communicating with each other,” he explained. “The bad guys know they have the technology to listen to that communication and to reverse engineer it, and maybe inject something into that communication stream that disrupts the operation of your vehicle. And it may not be a shutdown event it may be just something to slow you down, something to make your business a lot more inefficient.”

But it also could cause an entire fleet to shut down, he said, and there are still many in the industry who don’t believe it can happen to them. So, Zachos continues to work – through TMC, other industry organizations, the University of Detroit Mercy and his own company – to inform, educate, create products and help set industry standards in efforts to identify and head off cyberattacks before they can cause damage.

“There are always new recommended practices that are presented, discussed and balloted, and all of us look forward to offering our ideas that will improve maintenance in the industry,” DG Technologies sales and marketing manager John McNelis said of this week’s TMC meeting and exhibition. “DG Technologies plays a key role in offering expert information that is used to create new industry standards,” McNelis said.

TMC’s annual spring meeting and exhibition draw more than 5,000 leaders in commercial vehicle transportation, including presidents and CEOs, senior maintenance and equipment executives, directors of maintenance, fleet managers and other key decision makers. TMC bills the event, held March 4-7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, as the premier technical conference for maximizing fleet performance and efficiency in the trucking industry, calling it “the one-stop shop for fleet education, supported by the industry’s only member-driven best practices.”

DG Technologies, which Zachos started more than 35 years ago, also had a booth at the event. McNelis said the exhibition gives him the opportunity each year to talk up new hardware and software that will join the company’s catalog, which currently includes the DPA XL heavy-duty diagnostics device and Synercon Forensic Link Adapter crash data extracting tool, “and how these new products and services can optimize truck maintenance and uptime.”

Mike Jewell, DG Technologies’ senior sales engineer said he looks forward to the event for the chance to continue marketing and promoting the company to further grow brand awareness and to maintain and grow its reputation as a trusted source for vehicle technology. “It’s also important to attend because it allows DG to learn firsthand what’s going on from industry leaders and also to influence it with our expertise and product know-how,” he said.

DG Technologies works in association with many domestic and foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and tier 1 and 2 suppliers to the automotive, heavy-duty, agriculture, off-road, cybersecurity, military and recreational vehicle transportation markets and has a long affiliation with SAE International, the American Trucking Association’s Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) and tier 1 and 2 supplier organizations. The company is a leading provider of secure aftermarket diagnostic products, engineering development tools and heavy-duty vehicle digital forensics. In 2019, DG Technologies’ parent company, the Dearborn Group Inc., acquired Synercon Technologies, which specializes in vehicle crash data extraction. Zachos runs both companies from his offices in Farmington Hills, Mich.

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DG Technologies at #TMCAnnual24!

DG Technologies is proud to be among the experienced industry leaders heading to Louisiana next week for the American Trucking Association’s (ATA) Technology & Maintenance Council’s (TMC) Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition. Billed as the premier technical conference for maximizing fleet performance and efficiency in the trucking industry, the event will be held March 4-7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in downtown New Orleans.

“There are always new recommended practices that are presented, discussed and balloted, and all of us are looking forward to offering our ideas that will improve maintenance in the industry,” said John McNelis, sales manager for DG Technologies. “Personally, I’m also looking forward to talking with friends and colleagues at the exhibition about what is new at DG Technologies and how these new products and services can optimize truck maintenance and uptime.”

McNelis says the company plans to make new product announcements at the exhibition, from its booth (#3832) at the event. He is excited to introduce others in the industry to DG Technologies’ new product lineup that will join the company’s catalog that includes the trusted DPA XL heavy-duty diagnostics device and Synercon Forensic Link Adapter crash data extracting tool.

Mike Jewell, DG Technologies’ senior sales engineer, said he looks forward to this event for the chance to continue marketing and promoting the company to further grow brand awareness and to maintain and grow its stellar reputation. “It’s also important to attend because it allows DG to learn firsthand what’s going on from industry leaders and also to influence it with our expertise and product know-how,” he said.

TMC’s annual meeting draws more than 5,000 leaders in commercial vehicle transportation, including presidents and CEOs, senior maintenance and equipment executives, directors of maintenance, fleet managers and other key decision makers. TMC calls it “the one-stop shop for fleet education, supported by the industry’s only member-driven best practices.”

Mark Zachos, DG Technologies’ president and founder, will be in attendance representing the company and as the chair of TMC’s Cybersecurity Issues Task Force, which will meet on Monday as part of the event. Zachos, an expert in the field of vehicle cybersecurity and electronic network development, is a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) fellow and past chairman of SAE’s Detroit Chapter. He also teaches at University of Detroit Mercy and is the director of the school’s Vehicle Cyber Engineering Lab, which he helped create.

At the meeting next week, Zachos and the TMC Cybersecurity Issues Task Force will explore preventive cybersecurity methods, develop guidelines for fleets to create their own cybersecurity programs, standardize over-the-air engine control module (ECM) programming through specific protocols that allow fail safe options and secure messaging, work with other associations to strengthen related standards by fleet user influence, examine the development of a reporting and responding alert program for industry users and examine the possibility of developing a cyber-intrusion challenge track as part of the TMCSuperTech competition, held each year as part of TMC’s fall meeting.

“DG Technologies plays a key role in offering expert information that is used to create new industry standards,” McNelis said.

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DG Technologies president Mark Zachos was in Washington, D.C., Jan. 16-18, 2024, for the Society of Automotive Engineer’s (SAE) Government/Industry Meeting. Held annually in conjunction with the Washington, DC Auto Show, the SAE forum brings together representatives from regulatory agencies and the auto industry to give them an opportunity to work to find mutual understanding and set industry standards on issues including safety, security, emissions control and energy for future vehicle design.

Zachos, an SAE fellow who is also past president of the Detroit Section of the organization, attended the conference’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Cyber Workshop, which covered the safety and vulnerability of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Participating in the Government/Industry Meeting every year “gives our company insight and understanding where those future regulations might affect our business and our customers, and from that, DG can enhance our products and services,” he said.

DG Technologies’ trusted DPA XL and VSI NxGen diagnostic and reprogramming tools are examples of how Zachos’s involvement in events like the Government/Industry Meeting benefit the company as well as the industry.

“From the relationships we build there, I know who’s who in government agencies and they know me and SAE,” said Zachos, who also teaches at University of Detroit Mercy where he helped create and continues to serve as director of the Vehicle Cyber Engineering Lab. “It helps in working together.”

The DPA XL and VSI NxGen both feature DG Technologies’ own CyberGuard cybersecurity protection as well as adhere to J2534, an SAE-designed interface standard that is mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for vehicle electronic control unit (ECU) reprogramming. According to SAE International, this standard “provides the framework to allow reprogramming software applications from all vehicle manufacturers the flexibility to work with multiple vehicle data link interface tools from multiple tool suppliers. This system enables each vehicle manufacturer to control the programming sequence for ECUs in their vehicles, but allows a single set of programming hardware and vehicle interface (tools) to be used to program modules for all vehicle manufacturers.”

With DG Technologies’ work focused on cybersecurity, diagnostics and engineering to benefit the technicians and engineers who use our products, the company continues to emphasize standards participation to help drive the automotive and truck industry forward. In addition to Zachos, several other DG employees are also involved directly with SAE, volunteering their time and expertise to serve on the SAE committees that generate those standards.

Regulations that come out of government, said Zachos, noting NHTSA and truck emissions regulations as examples, “all correspond in some way or another to SAE standards.”

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VSI NxGen Version 3.09 Is Now Available for Download!

DG Technologies, #1 in Secure Reprogramming, has just released the latest VSI NxGen software update on the DG Technologies downloads page. 

The VSI NxGen, DG-400-10795 is DG’s current SAE J2534-compliant Vehicle Standard Interface and contains current and future technology, secured by CyberGuard for years of dependable operation.  

This new version offers improvements in cybersecurity, reliability, speed and more. The VSI NxGen works for any make and any model. 

Version 3.09 features: 

• Updated software, firmware, bootloader and other performance improvements 
• D-PDU API validated for General Motors Tech2Win and other manufacturers 
• A feature that allows for multiple connections to protocols on the same pins in J2534 
• A change in CAN-related autobaud for 250k and 500k baud rate 
• Firmware updated application enhancements for cybersecurity 

Our tools come complete with CyberGuard protection to secure your reprogramming actions! 

Download the VSI NxGen Version 3.09 at www.dgtech.com/downloads. DG Technologies ensures that all tools stay up to date, and recommends all users bookmark or save this page for future updating.  

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DPA XL Version 3.09: Now Available from the DG Technologies Downloads Page

DG Technologies, #1 in Secure Diagnostics, has just released its DPA XL Version 3.09. We’ve updated speed, compatibility and cybersecurity unlike any other product on the market today.

Among the enhancements, improvements and other minor adjustments, Version 3.09 Features:

• New firmware, bootloader and other updates.
• Added a feature that allows for multiple connections to CAN/ISO15765/J1939 protocols
• A change in the CAN-related autobaud to 250k and 500k baud rate
• Firmware updated application enhancements for cybersecurity
• Other enhancements and minor fixes to help Protect Your Uptime

Find the new DPA XL Version 3.09 on the DG Technologies downloads page. And visit our TruckConnect Portal, through our website www.dgtech.com or directly at www.truck-connect.com, to learn how to Protect Your Uptime with DPA Health to enhance fleet maintenance efficiency and DPA MD for Android to put the power of DPA XL in the palm of your hand.

DG Technologies’ tools are designed to Protect Your Uptime. Find out more information and detailed literature and resources at https://www.dgtech.com/cyber-security/. For future updates and general company news, please follow our social media pages below.

Our customers rely on DG Technologies for the most secure solutions to their maintenance, fleet and engineering needs. All DG Technologies solutions have a focus on security, reliability, durability, and are packed with over 30 years of company experience and expertise. Save time and money in the office, shop, or your own garage with DG Technologies products and services.

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ETI Winter Tech Week

With DG Technologies’ trusted line of secure diagnostic and engineering tools, like VSI NxGen for cars and Beacon for Developers, company president Mark Zachos made it a priority to be at ETI’s annual Winter Tech Week.

Zachos was in Torrance, Calif., last week for the event, organized by the Equipment and Tool Institute (ETI) and the Japanese Automobile Manufacturers Association to communicate new information, technologies and tool requirements for servicing current models and future vehicles.

He said being at Winter Tech Week is beneficial to “stay current with vehicle maintenance technology including potential regulations both in the U.S. and abroad.”

The event each year gives attendees an opportunity to meet and collaborate with OEMs, engineers, service tool providers, regulators and designers.

The main focus for us at DG Technologies is to actively participate to ensure that our tools, equipment and information are available to repair shops by the time the new models hit the streets. Through OEM presentations, panel discussions and hands-on demonstrations, industry professionals discuss the upcoming service needs of new makes and models, and the changes necessary in the tool and equipment industry to meet those needs.

Current DG Technologies customers that participate include AVL, Burke Porter, Continental, Denso, Hino, Honda, Isuzu, Matco, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Fuso, Nissan, Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industries), Suzuki Toyota and Kia.

DG Technologies supplies products to both vehicle manufacturers and aftermarket companies and the event is a great way to confirm that our products are out in front of any changes coming and to help confirm they work with all vehicles.

While he was in town for the event, Zachos was able to visit the American Honda Collection Hall at Honda’s U.S. headquarters in Torrance. “The new Honda Museum was outstanding,” Zachos said.

According to Motor Trend Magazine, the collection, which opened this fall after being stored for the last 20 years in an undisclosed warehouse and continually added to by American Honda staffers, “might be the best-worst kept secret in the California car scene.”

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Elevate your Expertise with DG Technologies’ Heavy-Duty Protocol Training

Are you an engineer who works with CAN networks in the heavy-duty automotive industry? Are you looking to enhance your skills and knowledge to stay ahead of the curve in this field? Join Mark Zachos, industry expert and DG Technologies president and founder, for our two-day Heavy-Duty Protocols training class Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at our Farmington Hills, Mich., location. In the course Zachos will dive into the fundamentals required for developing heavy-duty vehicle communications protocols. With cybersecurity at the forefront of everything DG Technologies does, as well as a part of every DG diagnostic tool, Zachos incorporates it specifically into this class.

Course Highlights:

1. Introductory CAN knowledge: Learn about Controller Area Networks (CAN) and their heavy-duty applications.
2. Practical hands-on training: Get experience with the latest tools and techniques.
3. Industry-relevant content: Explore real-world scenarios to apply your knowledge effectively.
4. DG Technologies expertise: Benefit from the extensive experience of DG Technologies, a renowned leader in the field.
5. Networking opportunities: Connect with others in the industry and expand your professional network.

By attending this training, you will be equipped with the knowledge and practical skills necessary to troubleshoot CAN network issues and contribute to the success of your organization.

Don’t miss the opportunity to take your expertise to the next level. Space is limited so secure your spot today!

For more information on the classes we offer, visit www.dgtech.com/training. To register, call 248-888-2000 or email sales@dgtech.com.

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Controller Area Network for Vehicle Applications Training from DG Technologies’ Mark Zachos

DG Technologies president and industry expert Mark Zachos was at the SAE World Automotive Headquarters in Troy, Michigan, last week teaching Controller Area Network (CAN) for Vehicle Applications.

Approved for use as an International Standards Organization (ISO) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) diagnostic network, the Controller Area Network has become the standard of choice for most automotive manufacturers, and its usage continues to grow.

Geared toward validation engineers, test engineers, embedded programmers and those working with applications using CAN, Zachos’s course covers the theory and use of the CAN protocol and its applications in the automotive industry. Zachos uses DG Technologies’ CyberTech Truck in a Box training tool kit, which contains diagnostic and simulator tools – including DG’s trusted DPA XL CAN tool – gages, cables, modules and more, to demonstrate CAN network hackings.

Coming up: There are still spots left in Zachos’s Heavy-Duty Protocols training class Nov. 30 to Dec. 1 at DG Technologies in Farmington Hills, Mich. For more information or to register for the class visit: dgtech.com/training.

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Training from DG Technologies

Along with our expansive catalog of products and services, DG Technologies also offers world-class industry training.

This fall, DG president and founder Mark Zachos will teach Heavy-Duty Protocol Training.

In the course, Zachos will dive into the fundamentals required for developing heavy-duty vehicle communications protocols. With cybersecurity at the forefront of everything DG Technologies does, as well as a part of every DG diagnostic tool, Zachos incorporates it specifically into this class.

Zachos has more than 30 years of engineering experience in automotive electronics, cybersecurity, vehicle diagnostics and communications. He has authored technical papers on On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) and in-vehicle networking and holds more than 10 patents in vehicle communications technology. He heads several advisory groups and standards teams within the Society of Engineers and the American Trucking Association, and sits on the Oakland County (MI) Connected Vehicle Task Force, where his focus is secure connected vehicle deployment. He has been directly involved with the development of more than 25 light and heavy-duty vehicle technical standards.

A well-known instructor, Zachos teaches embedded programming, CANbus and vehicle cybersecurity at The University of Michigan-Dearborn and instructs hackers at the U.S. Army TARDEC CyberTruck Challenge. DG Technologies also offers classes in Introduction to Car Hacking with CANbus, Automotive Ethernet Basics, Diagnostics CAN-Basic OBD, and CAN and Higher Layer Protocols.

Classes are taught in Metro Detroit, and can be customized to be offered elsewhere on location.

For more information on the classes we offer, visit www.dgtech.com/training. To register, call 248-888-2000 or email sales@dgtech.com.

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