What problems are we facing?
The Beeline Company in Bettendorf produces equipment for performing wheel alignments on larger commercial vehicles. Currently, they bring the vehicle into a large bay and prepare to perform the alignment of the wheels. They use two different circuit boards connected to a computer to perform the alignment. The first circuit board contains a microprocessor (to process the information from the accelerometer and the gyro) and a 3-axis accelerometer (to ensure no movement is occurring). The second circuit contains a 1-axis gyro that can measure the angle of the wheel being aligned and is connected to the first board. The client has found that the circuit boards currently have a high failure rate. Many times during the alignment, the circuit board will stop responding or provide data that is out of the tolerance that is necessary. This requires the technicians to reinitialize the boards and begin the alignment again.