Automotive IT News and Facts
Selected customers will start driving Volvo Cars’ new fast-charging electric vehicles this summer, as the Swedish carmaker tests a new technology designed to address one of the major issues facing the EV industry. Today’s lithium-ion batteries used to power EVs provide a driving range of between 100 and 150km. That means EVs without so-called range [...]
Siemens and Bentley Systems have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly market software for the digital planning of car factories and other manufacturing facilities. The cooperation is designed to deliver “intelligent and sustainable digital factory infrastructure,” the companies said in a press release. Siemens and Bentley Systems, which is not related to the Bentley [...]
Siemens has acquired Belgian simulation software maker LMS International for 680 million euros in a move to expand its offering of product lifecycle management (PLM) products. The German industrial group said the acquisition will add model-based simulation, design, test and measurement capabilities to the product offering of its Siemens PLM Software division. The integrated software [...]
Siemens PLM has released the latest version of its NX CAD/CAM software package, claiming the product will provide more flexibility and reduce time to market for the products it will help design and engineer. The Germany-based engineering group said NX 8.5 has a range of new features that, to a major extent reflect feedback received [...]
Siemens believes electric or hybrid-electric trucks can be easily powered via overhead electrified wires, similar to how trolley buses and streetcars are operated today. The German power engineering group unveiled its “eHighway” concept at the annual Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles this week. It said that using overhead wires to bring electricity to trucks [...]
Johnson Controls’ automotive division has chosen Siemens PLM’s Teamcenter as its corporate standard for collaboration and process integration. Siemens PLM Software, a division of Germany’s Siemens Group, said Johnson Controls Automotive Experience will use Team Center across its entire global product development operation. Siemens said it had won the contract in competition with at least [...]
PLM software suppliers in Germany see strong growth continuing despite expectations of an economic slowdown this year. At a meeting in February of the sendler\circle, an association of PLM service providers in Germany, company representatives said growth in the industry is only held back by a shortage of qualified engineers. PLM suppliers expect double-digit growth [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Automakers Daimler and BMW are teaming up with key German automotive suppliers and electric utilities to build a common data platform for electric-vehicle charging. The two premium carmakers plan to form a joint venture for this purpose with suppliers Robert Bosch and Siemens and utilities RWE and EnBW. They hope the joint data platform will [...]
