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Philippe Aumont
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Philippe Aumont is a highly experienced executive with almost 40 years in the automotive interior supplier industry. Both engineering & business graduate, completed by many general management programs.
He acted as Chief Technology Officer at Faurecia Seating, between 2011 and 2017. Previously he worked for Roth Frères, Johnson Controls and Faurecia, with various position in R&D, Marketing, Strategy, new product development, Open Innovation, start-ups, university, and earlier in JIT, Production, Program Management, Costing, Sales… with permanent assignment in France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, and frequent travels in the US, Japan, China & India.
Philippe is board member at SIA (Society of Automotive Engineers in France), and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Engineering school).
Philippe is passionate about automotive product and business model reshuffling (Autonomy, Connectivity, New Energy, Environment, and Car sharing), Innovation culture, organization, Technology scouting, Start-ups, Occupant-centric Design (Comfort, Perceived Quality, HMI, Cognitive…)
Buyers Still Skittish About New Techs
Auto shows around the world are prominently displaying the industry’s progress toward EVs, AVs, and connected cars. But are buyers ready to get onside with this fundamental technology shift? From September to October 2018, Deloitte surveyed more than 25,000 consumers in 20 countries to explore opinions regarding a variety of critical issues impacting the automotive…
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Inova’s LED Interior Lights at ISAL 2019
Later this month at the International Symposium on Automotive Lighting in Germany, Inova Semiconductors—a member of the ISELED Alliance—will present their innovative car interior lighting solutions.
Inova will exhibit the first available products and
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Stahl’s Coating for Cleaner, Longer-Lasting Interior Surfaces
As DV-I has previously reported, new car usage scenarios will influence interior material specifications. With multiple users touching every interior service in round-the-clock vehicle operation, surface material performance and durability requirements will
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Governments Mull Mandate for Child-In-Car Detectors
Every summer, small children die when left unintentionally in cars parked in the hot sun. Pets do, too. Now, American and European regulators are requiring child presence detection systems in cars. In 2022 EuroNCAP will begin awarding points toward vehicle star
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Honda’s New Passenger Airbags
Next year Honda will bring out a new kind of passenger-side airbag designed to reduce the probability of injuries in a wider variety of frontal crashes. The automaker previewed the technology for the press at their US R&D campus in Torrance, California.
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JLR’s 3D AR HUDs
Jaguar Land Rover’s engineers are working on a new generation of head-up display technology that could project safety-related and assistive information in front of the driver, and allow passengers to stream 3D movies direct to their seats in the ACES mobility
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Oops, That’s the Wrong Seat Belt
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30,000 Telluride SUVs made between January and August 2019 are being recalled in the United States to replace incorrectly-selected seat belt assemblies in the second- and third-row seats. U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard № 208 requires an ALR
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Even Tesla’s Steering Wheel is Now Leather-Free
Tesla’s Model 3 now has an interior completely free of leather, fulfilling a promise made by CEO Elon Musk at this year’s annual shareholder meeting.
Tesla has been getting the leather out of their interiors for a couple of years now, but the steering wheel was
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Territory is Ford’s First China EV
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Ford has just begun sales of its first electric vehicle in China, the battery-powered Territory. With young urban commuters as target customers, the electric Territory offers a range of 360 kilometers on one charge. It has a starting price of RMB ¥199,000
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