Automotive Archives - Raúl Bartolomé

Premium Loudspeakers for Car Audio Applications

Post category:Automotive Projects
Post published:2021-12-19

Date: 2021 – 2022. Developed by Harman International. Customers: BMW, Audi, Daimler, Volvo, VW, Aston Martin, etc. Creators: a large team of engineers. Raúl’s contribution: director of engineering, amplifiers and speakers. Market: automotive / Tier 1 supplier. Product category: audio and other multimedia products. Since 2021 Mr. Bartolomé is leading in Europe the engineering group of subject matter experts (SME) for amplifiers and speakers. He and his team lead the development of premium loudspeakers for many OEMs in Europe, such as BMW, Volvo, Daimler, Aston Martin and many others. The development of loudspeakers, commonly called speakers, is a mix of…

Analog and Digital Audio Amplifiers and Other Multimedia Products

Post category:Automotive Electrical Electronic Hardware Engineering Projects
Post published:2020-01-01

Date: 2017 – 2020.Developed by Harman International.Customers: BMW, Audi, Daimler, Volvo, VW, Aston Martin, Ferrari, etc.Creators: a large team of engineers.Raúl’s contribution: director of hardware engineering in Europe. Projects supervision, team management, escalations management and other managerial tasks.Market: automotive / Tier 1 supplier / multimedia electronics.Product category: audio and other multimedia products. From 2017 to 2020 Raúl was leading the hardware department in Europe at Harman International, a Samsung Company. During this period of time the department developed many audio products and other multimedia products for most of the European OEMs. The products consisted of tenths of acoustic output channels,…

Brilliance Automotive Huasong 7, a Complete E/E Vehicle Development

Post category:Automotive Projects
Post published:2015-08-01

Date: 2013 - 2015.Company owner: Brilliance Automotive. Developed by Magna Steyr.Customer: Brilliance Automotive and BMW.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl's contribution: resident project manager for E/E in Shenyang, China. Leading the communication between Magna Steyr Austria and Brilliance Auto China among many other duties.Market: automotive.Product category: complete vehicle engineering. In this project Magna Steyr was in charge to engineer the vehicle Huasong 7 for Brilliance Auto. The task included all engineering aspects such as electrical/electronics (E/E) system and components, power train, chassis, interior, exterior, body in white and complete vehicle aspects such as NVH and others. As a project…

Database with 6000 Electronic Part Numbers

Post category:Automotive Electrical Electronic Hardware Engineering Projects
Post published:2010-01-01

Date: 2010.Company owner: Lear Corporation.Developed by Cisium, Inc. Customer: internal user of Lear Corporation.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl’s contribution: engineering manager, project manager and lead engineer.Market: automotive.Product category: data codification. In the scope of the single activities related to electronic hardware engineering support, CISIUM has perform the review of an electronic component data base of more than 6000 part numbers. The database belongs to one of the biggest companies in the automotive sector. The review, supervise, wrap up in term of electronic attributes and datasheets, have been done closely with the top electronic components specialist of the company and has…

Smart Junction Boxes for Various OEMs

Post category:Automotive Electrical Electronic Hardware Engineering Projects
Post published:2008-01-01

Date: 2005 - 2009.Developed by Lear Corporation. Customers: Nissan, Renault, BMW and Mitsubishi.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl's contribution: senior hardware engineer. Responsible of electronic design, electronic component selection, schematic design, PCB supervision and review, EMC review, DFMEA, FTA, etc.Market: automotive / Tier 1 supplier.Product category: control and power distribution. Smart Junction Box (SJB) integrates passive junction box features with electronic module functionality. It uses microcontroller based technology to switch power and control vehicle body functions. SJB technology utilizes a total systems approach by optimizing and integrating control and power distribution functions into a single module. SJB replaces relays…

Distributed Multifunction System RS485 or USB 1.1 for Testing Electrical Wiring

Post category:Automotive Electronic Firmware Hardware Engineering PC Applications Projects Software Development
Post published:2003-01-01

Date: 2002 - 2003.Owner company: CreaSoft SL.Developed by CreaSoft SL.Clients: Valeo.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and other engineers.Contribution of Raúl: electronic engineer. Design of PCBAs, including schematics, layout, selection of components and hardware validation. C software development for microcontrollers.Market: electrical wiring.Product category: electrical test. The purpose of the project is to check the wiring harness, this time the mechanical enclosure is not a rack, but cards located on plastic guides, thus providing greater versatility. In the following photograph we can see an example of different cards located in the guides and interconnected with each other. These systems consist of electronic cards…

Putty Heated Pumps for OEMs Production Line

Post category:Automotive Electrical Hardware Engineering Projects
Post published:2000-03-13

Date: 2000.Developed by ASM Dimatec.Clients: numerous vehicle manufacturers.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and other engineers.Contribution of Raúl: electrical designer. Creation of schematics in ePAN, selection of electrical elements and creation of electrical documentation.Market: automotive subsidiary.Product category: industrial machinery. The project consisted of heated pumps for the application of putty, which is applied at the junction between bodywork and glass as a sealing method. The pump is optimized for the extraction of very low viscosity fluids. All the hoses are heated, as well as the piston, valves, etc. The electrical control box is made up of PLCs, magnetothermics, electromechanical relays and solid…

Licenses Management of Industrial Machines

Post category:Automotive PC Applications Projects Software Development
Post published:2000-01-01

Date: 2000.Developed by ASM Dimatec.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro.Contribution of Raúl: software developer. Software programming in Visual Basic for PC.Market: automotive subsidiary.Product category: industrial machinery. This application consisted of a program to ensure the intellectual integrity of the applications provided by the ASM Group company. It is based on license files associated with a floppy disk, each license made mention of a program and this in turn must check its existence to continue execution. The application was developed in Visual Basic 6, and the appearance of the main form is as follows: