Automotive IT News and Facts
BMW has extended by five years a multi-million-dollar network services agreement with HP, the U.S. based IT group said Thursday. Under the new agreement, the German premium carmaker will receive a range of higher value support services for the HP technology that provides a major part of BMW’s networking infrastructure. Among these is a next-business-day [...]
BMW Financial Services depends for all its IT needs on the group’s internal service division. IT at BMW is run by Karl-Erich Probst, CIO, while financial services at the German premium carmaker is headed by Erich Ebner von Eschenbach. Probst and Ebner von Eschenbach explain in an interview with automotiveIT what their common goals are [...]
Here’s what the auto industry wants: Microprocessors that are tailormade for the automotive environment, that can withstand huge temperature swings and near-constant vibration and, most importantly, never ever fail. To make microprocessors that meet those requirements, experts say a rethink of the entire production process is order. And that’s exactly what is happening. “Until now, [...]
A group of 11carmakers, suppliers and research institutes has been working on new technologies that improve safety at intersections. One project effectively lets a driver look around the corner. Another prevents accidents from occurring when a car turns left. Such systems would help defuse and prevent dangerous traffic situations at intersections, traditionally major black spots [...]
Volvo’s emergency-braking system received top honors in an ADAC test of six systems. The technology, as installed on a Volvo V60, received a “very good” from the German automobile club. Mercedes, Audi and VW systems were rated “good,” while BMW and Infiniti were classified as “satisfactory.” The ADAC tested the system in a range of [...]
German auto companies are embracing car sharing. Volkswagen is the latest German carmaker to announce the launch of a program. Europe’s largest automotive group said it is launching a project called “Quicar – Share a Volkswagen,” with 200 VW Golf BlueMotion cars in the northern German city of Hanover. Daimler has been expanding globally [...]
The third open AUTOSAR conference will take place  May 11 in Frankfurt. The one-day gathering features presentations by executives of BMW, Volkswagen, Renault, PSA/Peugeot-Citroen, Bosch, Continental, Valeo and other companies. VW’s Bernd Kunkel will discuss how AUTOSAR initiatives are implemented at core car-company members of the development partnership. Continental’s Khosrau Heidary will present the main [...]
BMW posted record results in the first quarter of 2011Â and reaffirmed its goal of building more than 1.5 million new vehicles this year. The German premium car maker said its profit before financial results soared to 1.9 billion euros in the first quarter from 449 million euros a year earlier and group net jumped four-fold [...]
Upheaval in the PLM market: Daimler and Chrysler are separating from former partner Dassault Systemes and are doing development work with Siemens PLM software. On the other hand, BMW has settled on Dassault in the E/E domain. In turn, Hyundai has chosen PTC’s Windchill as its collaboration software, making it the backbone of its PLM [...]
Konica Minolta will install 6,800 project management systems in BMW locations throughout Europe. The Japanese printing, imaging and business solutions group won the order in a Europewide tender. It also includes a monitoring solution and applications for secure printing. Of the total project management order, 2,000 systems will go to BMW’s Munich headquarters. The first [...]
