Meritor Wabco has developed a programming tool that significantly shortens delivery times of replacement electronic control units (ECU) for antilock braking systems (ABS).

Introduced at the Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) Annual Meeting this week, The Aftermarket Programming Tool will be available this spring. Service centers can use the tool to configure a new line of partially programmed control units to specific vehicle settings.

In recent years, wait times have soared because customers can choose between more than 400 pneumatic ABS ECU variants in use today. Service centers generally do not stock all of these units.

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