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Autonomous driving is shifting the existing automotive supply chain from the traditional system of OEMs and suppliers to a collaborative ecosystem comprising OEMs, mobility service providers, software and hardware solution providers, and infrastructure providers. We have recently seen competitors joining hands and forming some unlikely-sounding alliances to reduce the cost of autonomous driving development, as well as to share resources and capab...

If 2019 (and let’s be honest, the entire last decade), has taught us anything it’s that we live in an uncertain and unpredictable world. What is certain is that technology will play an integral part in just about every aspect of society in the future. Here, experts at Imagination Technologies gaze into their crystal ball and offer some insight into how technology will advance across different industries over the next 12 months.

The UK automotive industry is rich and diverse, from stripped out track day monsters and mind-bending supercars to civilised luxury vehicles and new generation EVs. All need components on short lead times, despite great variance in vehicle production volumes. These OEMs require suppliers who can be flexible and deliver low or high volumes quickly with added cost-effectiveness. This is a flexibility that Mark Water Pumps Limited (MWPL) has brought...

Organisers have declared the first-ever CeeD Awards a great success, after over 500 delegates came together to celebrate Scotland's booming engineering sector. The Centre for Engineering Education and Development (CeeD) is working to build a national engineering community in Scotland, bound together by a common aspiration to improve operational efficiency, effectiveness and ultimately profit.

The UK is in pole position in the global race to market for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), with a £62bn boost to the UK economy by 2030 up for grabs, according to a major new report published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) and Frost & Sullivan.Connected and Autonomous Vehicles:Winning the Global Race to Market, analyses the wide-ranging societal and economic benefits to be achieved bygradually ...

Come and visit Electronic Specifer on stand D:12, at the Elektronik trade fair, for a chance to win a Red Pitaya STEMLad Starter Kit. The exhibition is being held in Gothenburg, Sweden, for the eighth year. This year Elektronik has been organised alongside the Advanced Engineering Fair, to emphasise this year’s focus on innovative and exciting solutions for the electronics issues of the future.

An agreement to design and deliver an electric driveline for an industrial OEM has been signed by Volvo Penta. This strategic partnership follows the recent announcement that Volvo Penta is providing the propulsion system to Gothenburg’s first all-electric ferry, and demonstrates an important step in the journey to electrified power solutions to industrial and marine segments by 2021.

Stringent government regulations, requirement for compliance with emission standards, and increasing consumer inclination towards innovative safety technologies are transforming automobile industry. Rising public spending has resulted in increased automobile sales and road traffic, thereby enhancing the probability of accidents, property loss, and fatalities.

Geely Design, CEVT and TactoTek jointly announced that they have initiated projects to develop smart surfaces for multiple automotive brands owned by CEVT’s parent company, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. The current interiors project is the first of several anticipated by the framework agreement between the companies.

Ahead of the Agile for Automotive Summit, taking place on 15th-17th May in Detroit, we sat down with two of the keynote speakers, Dave West, Product Owner and CEO of Scrum.org (a provider of training, assessments and certifications to improve the profession of software delivery), and Nigel Thurlow, Chief of Agile at Toyota Connected, to discuss the following: