Automotive IT News and Facts
The US administration is stepping up the pressure on carmakers to make in-vehicle electronic devices less distracting to drivers. US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Thursday issued a series of proposed voluntary guidelines for in-car communications, entertainment, information gathering and navigation devices. The guidelines, which were issued by the department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [...]
This year’s CeBIT high-tech fair will pay special attention to the growing importance of IT to the auto industry. The annual event, the world’s biggest IT fair, will include a special automotive focus under the “Digital Drive” banner. Various automakers, suppliers and service providers will provide solutions that are increasingly finding their way into the [...]
Senior IT managers from Amazon, eBay, IBM, Microsoft and Siemens will be among the speakers at a series of events hosted at the CeBIT high-tech fair in Hanover next month. CeBIT Global Conferences, which will stage its conference program at the Hanover Fairgrounds March 6 -9, will focus on key IT issues such as intelligent [...]
The fourth annual automotiveDAY conference will focus on the role of IT in fostering growth in the auto industry. Speakers will focus on a range of topics, including the role of IT in boosting growth in the industry; how Cloud computing benefits global companies; the outlook for mobile IT; and how IT consolidation can lower [...]
A German institute has developed software that can help companies deploy a more sophisticated worker-incentive program. The Institute for Integrated Production (IPH), which belongs to Hanover’s Leibniz University, teamed up with partners from industry to develop the software, which aims to not just reward workers for productivity, but also takes into account their performance in [...]
One of the world’s largest communities of SAP resellers is moving its main office close to the headquarters of the business software group in Walldorf, Germany. UnitedVARs, which has 20 core partner companies worldwide serving mostly small and mid-sized enterprises, was founded last year. Its aim is to deliver one-stop-support to international customers under the [...]
Siemens PLM Software CEO Chuck Grindstaff is a big believer in open systems. The head of the business software division of Germany’s Siemens is confident his products can compete in a fully open environment. In an interview with automotiveIT, Grindstaff, a 33Â year Siemens veteran, also discussed Siemens new products, the changes in automakers’ PLM [...]
Volkswagen wants to improve the sustainability of its car plants by 25 pc between 2o10 and 2018. The German carmaker said it will conserve energy, cut down on waste volumes, lower CO2 and other emissions and reduce its water consumption. “By 2018, we intend to make production at all our plants 25 percent more environmentally [...]
Software development for engine control units is both complex and expensive. That’s why Volkswagen and Clausthal University of Technology are looking for ways to make this work more efficient. Europe’s largest auto company and the smallest technical university in Germany with barely 4,000 students have established the Institute for Applied Software Systems Engineering (IPSSE), a [...]
Mercedes-Benz is moving ahead systematically with the modernization of its factories and that involves a consolidation of production and logistics systems. Those systems are the key to maintaining the flexibility today’s carmakers need to remain competitive. They are especially important to a builder of premium cars like Mercedes-Benz. The company’s production and logistics structures have [...]
