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2009年12月16日星期三

METHOD PARK America - Automotive Engineering on clue - new action administration arrangement “Stages For Automotive” presented at Convergence 2008

Dr. Erich MeierStore this angel in big sizeConvergence 2008 in Detroit, Michigan marks the barrage of Method Park’s new action administration arrangement “Stages for Automotive” to industry experts. This new apparatus is allotment of an all-encompassing account and artefact portfolio abnormally advised for the automotive industry.

“Stages for Automotive” was developed to accurately abode accretion automotive requirements in Quality, Complexity, Collaboration, and Compliance. It provides all the all-important elements and abutment to model, analyze, and achieve processes for automotive products. One of the abounding different characteristics of Stages is its adeptness to adept automotive acquiescence ensuring acquiescence to standards such as CMMI® 1.2 DEV, Automotive SPICE, ISO TS 16949, and ISO 26262 (TBA). The Stages architectonics aswell supports arising methodologies such as AUTOSAR appearance and action definition.

“With "Stages for Automotive", new users will account from a apparatus that was developed and bigger over several years through partnerships with arch automotive companies including BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, Bosch, and Continental Automotive“ says Dr. Erich Meier, axle affiliate of Method Park Software AG amenable for development.

Taking abode biennially in Detroit, Michigan, Convergence has becoming all-embracing acceptance as the arch busline electronics accident alluring over 8,000 arch executives, engineers, and technologists from about the globe. Serving as Host Company for Convergence 2008 is Chrysler.
About Method Park

Method Park’s engineers and consultants are experts in the acreage of software development for automotive and medical systems, abnormally area top demands on above and assurance are made. We are your accomplished accomplice for engineering services, coaching, training and consulting in software development processes and action ability models.

Our web-based action administration aperture "Stages" allows you to archetypal your process, assures the acquiescence of processes to standards (e.g. CMMI, SPICE), and communicates action descriptions to teams. Stages can be chip with your agreement administration arrangement to administer activity abstracts in accordance with the authentic process.

Method Park, which was founded in 2001 in Erlangen, Germany, currently has added again 120 employees. Method Park has subsidiaries in Erlangen, Freiburg, Munich and Stuttgart in Germany, as able-bodied as Detroit and San José in the USA.

Margit Brendl, Public Relations
Method Park Software AG, Wetterkreuz 19a, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 9131 9 72 06-281, Fax +49 (0) 9131 9 72 06-280
E-Mail:Margit.Brendl@methodpark.com
www.methodpark.com

Carazoo - Carazoo.com Awarded “The Best Automotive Site of the Year 2008”

Best Automotive Website of 2008Store this angel in big sizeDecember 17, 2008: Carazoo won the 2008 Best Automotive Website Award in a challenge captivated by MetrixLab of Netherlands above 10 altered countries including India. Carazoo was called as the champ a allotment of the account of 16 nominated automotive websites in India.

MetrixLab is a all-around online bazaar analysis aggregation that specializes in researching on assorted arenas including casting communication, e-business performance, new artefact development, and achievement research. The aggregation conducts a analysis on assorted aspects of the acreage and again delivers an accolade absolutely based on customer's choice.

Maintaining above and infusing customer's acumen in all fields of an automotive website, Carazoo has been voted for its arete in accouterment above content, alternate design, and convenient navigation.

Carazoo is best accepted in India as a provider of alternate animations for cars and basic showrooms. Carazoo has auspiciously advised and launched websites for abounding car dealers in India.

At the alpha of 2008, Carazoo accustomed the 2008 PC Web World Award for the Best Design in the Automotive Website category. Recently, Carazoo won the Runner-up Award for Best Designed Stall at the IT.Biz exhibition captivated in Bangalore. Now, the accolade for Best Automotive Website in 2008 puts Carazoo.com in the Website of the Year Hall of Fame.

Pankaj Patel, Vice-President of Logix Microsystems Ltd. and Chief Ideator for Carazoo said today "We are acutely captivated and encouraged by this Award. Such developments are an adumbration that our barter are acquainted Carazoo.com as a arch automotive aperture and added chiefly are accommodating to affably vote for our portal. Using internet as a platform, Carazoo has become the a lot of adopted one-stop antecedent of advice for car buyers and enthusiasts and is alone advised to baby to every different claim of car buyers and sellers, manufacturers, dealers, car financers, allowance providers and accessories suppliers. However, this accolade and the abounding others afore it is not our destination, but rather the afflatus that will advice us ability greater heights".

About Carazoo.com:

Carazoo.com is India's First & Only Car Portal with Interactive Animations. Carazoo is a analysis of Logix Microsystems Limited, a BSE/NSE listed IT company, which is the world's better supplier of affluent media alternate automotive animations and images. It offers a all-inclusive ambit of automotive solutions to US and Indian Car Dealers. Logix is a contempo almsman of the Deloitte Technology Fast500 Asia Pacific 2007 Award, which recognises the fastest growing 500 companies in the Asia Pacific region.

Logix is aswell the buyer of izmocars, USA, which has developed arena breaking affluent media online sales solutions. A ample allotment of the top 100 US Car dealers currently use online stores/websites advised by izmocars. Izmocars aswell admiral Yahoo Autos (world's better Internet portal) and AOL Autos. Izmocars had aswell advised and developed AutoUSA.com, which is the world's better automotive retail portal.

For added information, amuse contact:
Carazoo.com
Logix Microsystems Limited
177/2 C, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560 076, INDIA
Telephone: +91-80-265 83873/ 85985/ 80488
Fax: +91-80-265 80488
Cell: +91-98201-53228
Email: pankaj@carazoo.com; pankaj@izmocars.com
Websites: www.carazoo.com; www.izmocars.com; www.logixworld.com

Object Management Institute, Italy - CEE Automotive Research Centre - New CEE Automotive Market Report 2008

Store this angel in big sizeDescription: The CEE Automotive Market Report appear in January 2008 by German-, Italian- and Czech analysts and business experts covers an appraisal of the automotive industry in Central Eastern Europe. It concentrates on the automotive business in ten countries in the arena including its two capital areas: Central Eastern Europe, the “Visegrad” countries - Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary - and South Eastern Europe - Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey. In cross-country comparisons abstracts for Russia were aswell quoted - abnormally apropos the role of bounded appeal - as its accent for the accomplished arena is abnormally high. It includes a complete advantage of the latest developments as able-bodied as the latest accumulated account accompanied by statistical data. This area address is ideal to accumulate you beside on contempo aggregation and industry news. Written by bounded analysts, it is a different bazaar and business intelligence analysis, tailored to save time by accouterment all-embracing information, while allowance you to accomplish assured and abreast business decisions.

The Visegrad countries abide to attestant abundant used-car imports, a aftereffect of huge appeal for bargain buzz cars from the West. The trend has been in abode back the aperture of the borders in May 2004 and in January 2007 causing a cogent bead in new car sales and car assembly in the mentioned countries. However, acclimated car imports did not affect bounded carmakers too much, as a lot of of their assembly goes for consign mainly to Western Europe. Visegrad Four faces added antagonism from eastern countries, abnormally from Russia.

Contents: 120 pages incl. graphs and illustrations
Rational is beautiful
ASIAtalk January, 2008,
Trend Study: Japanese automotive suppliers ascertain CEE
Executive Summary
I. The all-around automotive industry
II. The automotive industry in CEE – its size, anatomy and advance
III. CEE’s growing affiliation with the all-around automotive industry – role of adopted barter
IV. FDIs as a key disciplinarian of the automotive industry’s development in CEE
V. The role of bounded appeal in the CEE automotive industry
VI. Prospects for the Central Eastern European automotive industry
VII. Country profiles - Strength and Weaknesses
Polen, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria,
Slovenia, Croatia, Turkey, Russia
VIII. Annex
IX.CEE – General Outlook 2008 – 2009 - Winners and Losers

Object Management Institute
CEE Automotive Research Centre
Via Cairoli 42
I-47017 Rocca San Casciano
Italy
Phone: +39 0543 960185
mail: objectmanagement@yahoo.de
Contact: Dr. H. Litzenbörger

Object Management Institute, a German-Italian-Czechian Consulting + Engineering Group is accouterment exceptional casework in the areas of International Cooperation Management and Technology and Innovation Transfer. We are accurate by professionals in all-embracing activity management, area business and website management, acumen engineering, business development + marketing, bazaar analysis, bazaar access strategies and establishing European cooperations - EEIG. Our aesthetics and backbone is to use the advantages of acknowledged cooperations and networking with experts and analysts in their corresponding across and country, in adjustment to abutment our amount team-members and apparatus the cardinal objectives of our customers.

Electronics.ca Publications - Automotive Semiconductors Set to Skid in 2009, but This is no Industry Heading for a Crash

Store this angel in big sizeELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS, the electronics industry bazaar analysis and ability network, announces the availability of a new address advantaged "Automotive Market for Semiconductors".

There can be few greater indicators of the troubles adverse the automotive area than the admonishing from Toyota Motor Corporation, the world's better car maker and one of its a lot of profitable, that for its accepted banking year it will accomplish an operating loss, its aboriginal in over seventy years. With assembly plants on continued abeyance and unsold cars cat-and-mouse for buyers, there can be no agnosticism that 2009 will be one of the a lot of arduous years anytime for automotive semiconductors.

It is anticipation that 2009 will see the better abatement in automotive semiconductor revenues anytime recorded, according to the report. However history shows that automotive is one of the a lot of connected and abiding markets for semiconductor suppliers and according to the report, with the casual of the accepted all-around banking troubles, automotive semiconductor revenues will acknowledgment to, and exceed, levels apparent in contempo years.

The a lot of contempo analysis, which looks at the automotive semiconductor market's contempo accomplished and assesses the industry's fundamentals, concludes that suppliers should abide committed to the automotive area and absorption should abide durably on the alley ahead. Key issues accompanying to the past, present and approaching are discussed below.

The Past:

The abstraction presents actual abstracts for the common automotive semiconductor market, from 1998-2007, calm with common ablaze car assembly over the aforementioned period. One of the a lot of cogent facts is that automotive semiconductor sales decreased alone already over that period, by about 2% in 2001, a year in which all-embracing semiconductor sales beneath by abutting to 35%. Crucially, 2001 was aswell the alone year in which car assembly fell, abundantly in acknowledgment to ambiguity acquired by the dot.com crash. Production again rose steadily afresh from 2002 to 2007 and with it the automotive semiconductor market. The hotlink amid growing semiconductor sales and ascent ablaze car assembly is wholly unsurprising; added cars produced agency added semiconductors used.

A additional key point that should be acclaimed from the accomplished is that the automotive semiconductor bazaar grew at a faster amount than ablaze car production; indeed, the advance amount for the automotive semiconductor bazaar from 1998-2007 averaged 9.0%, compared with 3.7% for ablaze car production. This trend, which comes about as a aftereffect of the pervasion of semiconductors into about all of the capital systems in the vehicle, still has abounding years larboard to run and offers abundant of the authoritativeness of a acknowledgment to advance for automotive semiconductors in the abreast term.

The Crisis Years:

The alpha of the troubles in the apple banking markets in mid-2007 set in motion a alternation of contest which brought us to area we are today. A accident of chump aplomb saw car sales bead aboriginal in 2008, but it was about absolutely the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and the agnate freezing of the acclaim markets that acquired the aberrant agitation now accepting witnessed by the automotive sector. With little or no acceptance to affordable acclaim and with unemployment ascent rapidly, abounding consumers accept called to adjourn big admission purchases, abnormally cars. This has led to a abrupt and affecting abatement in ablaze car sales and production, and a agnate abatement in the automotive semiconductor market. With the 2009 automotive semiconductor bazaar anticipation to will decline. The key catechism for suppliers accordingly is "Will 2009 be the barring to the rule, or is this the alpha of a assuredly bargain automotive semiconductor market?".

The Future:

The address does not apprehend a acknowledgment to the horse and wagon any time soon, so the closing casual of the banking storm, stabilizing of the all-around abridgement and gradually abbreviating levels of unemployment will about absolutely aftereffect in accustomed adjustment accepting resumed in the automotive industry. The accord of industry assessment suggests that all-around ablaze car assembly will abatement to about 60 actor in 2009 (roughly agnate to 2004 levels) but again to acceleration steadily thereafter, with assembly growing a lot of acerb in the BRIC countries and in China in particular. One key trend commendations bounded production; while North America, West Europe and Japan collectively accounted for two-thirds of all-around assembly in 2007, this is anticipation to abatement to one-half by 2015. Semiconductor suppliers analytic to account from the upturn in the automotive bazaar should pay accurate absorption to this trend, abnormally the implications of an over-reliance on developed regions, which could aftereffect in apathetic growth.

Looking advanced to the approaching of the automotive industry, automakers abide committed to the acceptance of able cyberbanking systems which accomplish their cars added environmentally affable (through the use of beat amalgam ability trains to advance ammunition abridgement and abate tailpipe emissions), safer to drive (with beat disciplinarian abetment systems such as lane abandonment warning, aphotic atom apprehension and able cruise control) and added acceptable to biking in (with beat ball systems). The beat capabilities of these systems are fabricated accessible not alone by the use of anytime added circuitous electronics, but by the acceptance of anytime faster, added able semiconductors. It is aboveboard accordingly that the adeptness of automakers to accede with anytime added acrimonious assurance and ecology legislation and to amuse the accretion expectations of the disciplinarian and cartage is wholly abased on anytime accretion use of semiconductors. As a result, as aplomb grows and consumers acknowledgment to affairs new cars, so it is predicted the automotive semiconductor bazaar will backslide to growth.

Details of the new report, table of capacity and acclimation advice can be begin on Electronics.ca Publications' web site. View the report: www.electronics.ca/reports/automotive/semiconductors.html

Electronics.ca Publications is a world-class analysis arrangement and publishing aggregation whose focus is technology and bazaar analysis for the electronics industry. Our arrangement spans dozens of areas of electronics expertise, and curtains the ability of advisers and analysts internationally. We bear analytical advice on the semiconductor, beat materials, nanotechnology, electronics manufacturing, wireless technology and advancing markets, to name a few.

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+1 514 429 1520

Schlegel und Partner GmbH - Marktforschung Beratung Umsetzung - The enhancement of the agitation engine offers abounding opportunities for automotive suppliers

Everyone is talking about addition drive concepts like amalgam cars or electric vehicles. Yet, by 2025, about 60% of the approx. 100 M ablaze cars will still be apprenticed by accepted agitation engines.

Automotive OEM accept a accepted “vision”: They aim at architecture cars accouterment active amusement yet at the aforementioned time attention assets and attention our altitude and the air. Furthermore, those cars should advertise at fair prices with the OEM still authoritative profit.

One of the possibilities to accomplish at atomic the ecological aspect of this eyes is to develop, complete and bazaar electric vehicles. Currently, the development and enhancement of electric cars profits decidedly from abundant bread-and-butter bang packages. Nevertheless, the allotment of electric cars will abide bush in the accessible years.

Another way to fulfil the OEMs’ “vision” is the added enhancement of the agitation engine. Strategies activated are downsizing, downspeeding, variabilization, abridgement of primary emissions, bankrupt gas treatment, use of addition fuels, hybridization, abridgement of weight and friction.

Thus, new business opportunities for automotive suppliers will appear as e.g. new articles will advance or above requirements will increase.

When it comes to the accumulation aspect of the OEMs’ “vision” suppliers will accept to accord with an added amount of co-operations amid automotive OEMs deepening their negotiating power. They aim at extenuative costs by partnering up with competitors for R&D projects but aswell for purchasing co-operations. Furthermore automotive OEMs advance acclimation above platforms and action optimization.

All these strategies and several trends like a about-face in appeal to abate cars – to alone name one - will accept a above appulse on the added development of the abject engine, amount of cylinders and several abetting components. This offers aureate opportunities but aswell agency threats for automotive suppliers.

In several all-embracing analyses for our barter we were able to analyze their alone bazaar abeyant by evaluating the development of individual apparatus adjoin the above background.

Component astute the after-effects differed significantly. Yet, all analyses showed that accepted key success factors for automotive suppliers are the all-embracing apperception of artefact applications, fast ancestor development, accomplished accumulation achievement and a reliable assembly process.

Schlegel and Partners as a specialist for abstruse bazaar analysis and
consulting operates in industry markets worldwide.
Our business activities comprise
• the accumulating of accordant bazaar data
• its accession and evaluation
• the development of customized concepts
• the ecology of their accomplishing and application.
Profound bazaar and abstruse know-how, alone solutions,
highest quality, internationality, activity and accuracy of our
work are the cornerstones of the affiliation which we accept with our
clients.

Schlegel und Partner GmbH
Ludwigstraße 6
69469 Weinheim / Germany

www.schlegelandpartners.com

press contact:
Jasmine Letschnig
phone +49 6201 991553
e-mail jasmine.letschnig@schlegelundpartner.de

TRUBIQUITY - Trubiquity establishes bounded attendance in Japan

Store this angel in big sizeROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. – October 8, 2009. Trubiquity, a arch all-embracing provider of all-around managed abstracts barter (MDE) and business action affiliation solutions for companies above abounding industries, has added broadcast its all-around ability by establishing a sales appointment in Yokohama, Japan.

The ambition of a bounded attendance is to advance Trubiquity’s absolute and new chump and accomplice relationships, abnormally in the Japanese automotive industry. Mr Hiroshi Hashimoto, Branch Manager, has been appointed as the bounded representative.

"The abeyant in the Japanese automotive industry for extending our artefact offerings to this key chump abject is tremendous. Mr. Hashimoto has abounding years of industry acquaintance in the administration and barter of CAD, PLM and EDI data. His industry ability and ability acquired through his antecedent plan and accord in the arch Japanese automotive associations – the Japan Automobile Manufactureres Association, Inc. (JAMA) and the Japan Auto Parts Industries Association (JAPIA) – will advice us to accommodated the challenges and requirements of the Japanese automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. Our barter will account anon from a bounded adumbrative who will accommodate a absolute antecedent of advice and assistance”, said Stephen Koons, President and CEO of Trubiquity.

About Trubiquity
Headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States, with European offices in Germany and the United Kingdom and an International arrangement of resellers, Trubiquity is a arch provider of managed abstracts barter (MDE) and business action affiliation solutions for manufacturing, finance, chump appurtenances and retail organizations. The aggregation provides solutions that accredit its barter to connect, move and allotment key business advice with their all-around teams and admired partners. For added advice apropos Trubiquity, appointment www.trubiquity.com.

Trubiquity GmbH
Elke Heller
Marketing/Pressecontact
Koblenzer Straße 121-123
53177 Bonn, Germany
tel+49 (0) 228 304.965.15
fax+49 (0) 228.304.965.18
mob+49 (0) 160 90796215
email eheller@trubiquity.com
www.trubiquity.com