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BorgWarner Receives 2014 Supplier Quality Excellence Award From GM India

BorgWarner Receives 2014 Supplier Quality Excellence Award From GM India

BorgWarner’s manufacturing plant in Manesar, India, was presented with a 2014 Supplier Quality Excellence Award from GM India. The award recognizes top-performing suppliers that meet or exceed GM’s stringent quality criteria for timely delivery, high-quality products, smooth production processes and maintaining quality systems such as ISO/TS16949. “At BorgWarner, we are driven to improve fuel economy, emissions and performance for vehicles[Read More…]

Air Liquide completes the construction of the first public-use hydrogen filling stations in Nagoya and Toyota

Air Liquide held a ceremony to celebrate the completion of two hydrogen filling stations in the cities of Nagoya and Toyota, located in the Aichi Prefecture of Japan. These two hydrogen filling stations are the first public-use hydrogen filling stations for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles in the central Nagoya area and in Toyota City, respectively. They will make it possible to fill Fuel[Read More…]

by January 26, 2015 Uncategorized
Alucast 2014 focuses on lightweighting technologies

Alucast 2014 focuses on lightweighting technologies

Text & Photos: Bhargav TS The biennial edition of Alucast 2014, which recently concluded at Bengaluru International Exhibition Centre, has emerged as a perfect convergence platform for numerous stakeholders across the aluminium die casting industry, attracting more exhibitors and visitors from across the globe. Organised by The Aluminium Casters’ Association of India and produced by NuernbergMesse India, the theme of[Read More…]

by January 8, 2015 Uncategorized
Yokohama India starts commercial production at its India plant

Yokohama India starts commercial production at its India plant

Yokohama India, the fully-owned Indian arm of Yokohama Rubber Corporation, today inaugurated the first phase of commercial production at its India plant. The plant, based in Bahudargarh in Haryana, is the company’s first production unit in the country. Trial production at the plant had started in February this year. Spread across an area of nearly 25 acres, the plant will have a[Read More…]

Visteon: Vehicle Cockpit Concept allows drivers to operate controls through eye movement

Visteon: Vehicle Cockpit Concept allows drivers to operate controls through eye movement

Visteon’s HMeye cockpit concept uses eye gaze, head direction and image attribute tracking to make vehicle control selections Visteon Corporation recently unveiled an automotive cockpit concept demonstrating how drivers can select certain controls through eye movement and head direction. Hidden eye-tracking cameras capture this data to deliver an advanced human-machine interaction (HMI). This concept has received interest from auto manufacturers[Read More…]

by October 31, 2014 Uncategorized

On Tour With More Comfort: ZF Delivers 8-Speed Automatic Transmission For New Iveco Daily

  The 8HP by ZF is the first 8-speed automatic transmission to be installed ex works in an Iveco Daily  8HP scores with energy efficiency and travel comfort Iveco is “International Van of the Year 2015” – not least thanks to its fuel efficiency The more demanding the requirements for comfort and efficiency, the more important are advanced transmissions –[Read More…]

by October 10, 2014 Uncategorized

NI Announces Rugged Compact Vision System for USB3 Vision Cameras

National Instruments, the provider of solutions that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, today announced a compact solution for high-speed vision applications. The NI CVS-1459RT is a small, rugged vision system with a quad-core Intel Atom processor and two dedicated USB 3.0 ports for USB3 Vision cameras. “The NI Compact Vision System is my go-to[Read More…]

by October 1, 2014 Uncategorized
Exhaustive process – the mantra for Quality at Tenneco

Exhaustive process – the mantra for Quality at Tenneco

Text & Photos: T Murrali   Exhaust system plays a vital role in a vehicle as it determines how clean and efficient the engine is besides ensuring better life for the vehicle. Tenneco, the global leader in designing and manufacturing of ride control and clean air products follows a combination of eco-friendly and effective manufacturing operation. Tenneco Automotive is present[Read More…]

by August 3, 2014 Special Reads, Uncategorized
Singapore Pavilion at the Automechanika Kuala Lumpur -2013

Automechanika Kuala Lumpur hopes to attract over 6,000 visitors

Automechanika Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s leading regional trade fair for the automotive industry targeting trade visitors from ASEAN is expected to attract more than 6,000 visitors when it is held 19 – 21 March 2015 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The ninth edition of the 7,500 sqm show will be organised by Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd and[Read More…]

Interim Budget Highlights

The Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the Interim Budget this morning. During the presentation he said the government has managed to contain both the fiscal deficit and the current account deficit besides, keeping them below target. With general elections around the corner the minister was careful in his speech and focused primarily to pacify the auto industry.  Following are the[Read More…]

by February 17, 2014 Uncategorized, Web Exclusive