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Peter Horbury, the British designer who made the once-staid Volvo cars cool and sporty, is leaving Ford‘s North American operations to return to Volvo.
Cree, a market leader in LED lighting, have launched their Product Characterization Tool, an interactive LED design tool that simplifies the task of translating nominal LED performance to real-world conditions.
Bosch have recently launched a “Xenon Silver” range of aftermarket halogen headlight bulbs with increased performance. These are “Plus-50” bulbs, high-luminance filaments to produce up to 50 percent more light at the point of highest intensity within the beam.
Twenty-five finalists have been chosen for the 2009 Automotive News PACE Awards.
The 15th annual awards celebrate innovation by original-equipment suppliers in products and processes.
Taiwanese concern NeoPac Opto have released details of an LED light engine capable of producing 1500 lm from a single emitter.
Benjamin Azoulay graduated from École Centrale Nantes as an engineer in Automatics, and holds a master’s degree in mechanics and mathematics from University of Nantes. He started his career in 1990 at Philips as industrialisation engineer and step by step extended his professional scope to logistics, finance, and plant management in the general lighting domain. In 2005, he joined Philips Automotive lighting as Business line manager for signalling & interior lighting.
Driving Vision News: In automotive lighting, experts are talking about Xenon and LED but tungsten bulbs are still very important to the automotive industry. What are you doing to improve cost, performance, and quality of these bulbs?
Benjamin Azoulay: Reaching the ultimate zero-defect goal for tungsten technology has always been my first priority. By implementing the right mindset and culture in our factories through highly engaged and motivated people, and by working closely with our Tier-1 customers, we are able today to reach <1ppm level with conventional technology at the automakers' assembly lines. Of course, for the conventional signalling technology this implies high investments and efforts in quality management.
DVN: Right now, bulbs have a short lifespan relative to LEDs. Are you making progress in this direction? What is the trend?
The acquisition of Valeo’s former wiring systems division one year ago, helped Leoni boost sales 23% to €2.9bn in the 2008 financial year, but Leoni posted significantly lower earnings before interest
Daimler AG will sell €1.95bn in shares to Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments, gaining a long-term shareholder and raising cash as the world’s second-largest maker of luxury cars grapple with the deepeningglobal recession.
On 24 March, Moody‘s Investors Service downgraded Hella‘s Issuer Rating Baa3 to Ba1.
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