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At the IESF Automotive 2012 held two weeks ago in Stuttgart, Wesley Ryder, Mentor technical director has made an interesting key note emphasising 4 points:
General Motors and PSA will co-develop 4 vehicle projects as part of their alliance, the companies say.
The BMW Group plans to build a new plant in Brazil. “We have submitted an investment proposal for our planned new plant to the Brazilian Government,” said Ian
Swedish supplier Autoliv trimmed their profit and sales forecasts after a bigger-than-expected drop in third quarter earnings that showed the impact of Europe’s weak car
“I am proud of the R&D organisation with competence centers in Reutlingen and in Tolmezzo”
Eugenio Razelli was born in 1950 in Genoa, Italy, where he earned a degree in electrical engineering. He started his career at Fiat before going to Zanussi as a plant manager producing dishwashers. This gave him insight into the variety involved in customer needs; Europeans at that time wanted small, quiet dishwashers while Americans wanted big ones and didn’t much care about noise. After a series of increasingly responsible positions at companies including Comind, Magneti Marelli, Pirelli Cavi, and Fiamm, he returned to Fiat and eventually in 2005 he came to be CEO of Magneti Marelli.
DVN: How are Magneti Marelli organised? What are the results?
Eugenio Razelli: Magneti Marelli have 6 Business Units: Automotive Lighting (the biggest), Powertrain, Plastic Components and modules, Shock absorbers, Aftermarket parts and Services, Infotainment, and Telematics.
In 2011, our sales were €5.9bn with 34,800 employees. R&D represent 5.3% of sales and we have 12 R&D centres.
For S1-2012, revenues and results are in line with 2011, Automotive Lighting being above the overall Magneti Marelli average.
DVN: Before meeting you, I visited the archive room and I was impressed by the volume of images and communication.
E.R.: Magneti Marelli, which was born in 1919, gathered along its important industrial heritage companies like Jaeger, Veglia,Borletti, Weber, Solex, and in the lighting field Carello. So, we have a big historical patrimony. The collection of the archive currently consists of 20,000 images , 500 videos and over 2,000 documents such as company magazines, brochures, advertisements and press reviews. The Archive also includes a significant selection of products like magnets, coils, control units, headlights, and historical measuring instruments tied to Magneti Marelli and to our historical trademarks.
The SAE lighting committee meeting, held last week, was in fact not a meeting of that group. It’s because SAE management, in recognition of the extreme workload
Last week in Stuttgart, Mentor Graphics organised a conference and expo about electrical engineering and design for automobiles. Topics at the “IESF Automotive 2012”
Driving Vision News Editor In Chief Hector Fratty gave a lecture at the “IESF Automotive 2012” conference. At first he recounted the history of modern automotive
A station wagon…from Porsche! A decade ago, who would’ve thought it possible? Porsche’s Panamera Sport Turismo station wagon concept got such rave reviews at the
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