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| C & C Electronics Ltd | |
Communication and Control Electronics Limited - Company History
C&CE is the leading systems house dedicated to the design, development and manufacture of in-car information and entertainment
networks. C&CE provides a total solution for automotive digital multimedia and telematics networking. Our expertise spans overall
system specification, IC design and fabrication, software development, development and test tools and consultancy services.
We are the pioneers of the world's first standard for a fully-integrated multimedia and telematics network in automobiles and
the first true automotive multimedia and telematics networking IC - CONANÆ. In 2002 CONANÆ will power over 6 million nodes in
vehicles from Mercedes and Jaguar throughout the world. Our consultancy team has worked with our carmaker customers and their 1st tier suppliers to bring the world's
first cars with distributed multimedia networks into mass production. Established in 1990, as a joint venture between Philips and Matsushita the company was formed as D2B Systems Co.
This became Communication and Control Electronics Limited in 1994, following a management buyout enabling the company
to focus solely on servicing the automotive industry. With our headquarters in Farnborough, UK, offices in mainland Europe and Japan, C&CE is able to support carmakers and
their suppliers across the globe.
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| CEA Grenoble | |
The LETI (Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory) is operated by the CEA, the French Atomic Energy
commission. LETI vocation is to help companies increase their competitiveness through technological innovation and
industrial transfer of its technical know-how.
LETI was created in1967 and has grown into one of the largest applied research laboratories in Europe in the field
of electronics and micro & nano technologies.
At the end of 2002, the LETI workforce (about 60% engineers) amounted to 774 CEA personnel and more than 100 persons
of varying status.
In term of workforce, the share of activities in year 2002 was : Microsystems and multimedia (31%),
Micro-electronics (29%), Telecommunications and smart devices (12%), Biochips (9%) Medical imaging and
instrumentation (6%), other (13%).
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| Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH | |
High-grade and innovative automotive electronics
Nuremberg - The Continental Group offers automotive manufacturers premium and future-oriented electronics for
powertrain, safety and body electronics with Continental Temic. Technologies from the Product Lines Powertrain and
Chassis, Occupant Safety, Body Electronics, Electric Drives, Sensor Systems and Driver Assistance Systems have been
decisive in characterizing automotive developments in the past few years.
Continental Temic is a part of Continental Automotive Systems, a division of the Continental Group. The electronics supplier
develops and produces high-quality automotive electronics for applications in powertrain, safety, and driving comfort.
Continental Temic attained in 2002 with its workforce of some 6,000 worldwide sales of 1,6 billion euros.
In 2002 the Continental Group with its workforce of some 64,000 attained worldwide sales of 11.4 billion euros as leading
supplier of braking systems, chassis components, and tires. More information on Continental Temic and its products, and on
Continental AG, can be found under: www.temic.com and www.conti-online.com
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| DaimlerChrysler AG | |
DaimlerChrysler is one of the world's leading automotive companies.
Its passenger car brands include Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, JeepÆ, Dodge and smart. Commercial vehicle brands
include Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star and Setra. It offers financial and other automotive services
through DaimlerChrysler Services.
With 365,600 employees, DaimlerChrysler achieved revenues of EUR 149.6 billion ($158.8 billion) and sold 4.05 million units
Passenger Cars and 485,400 units Commercial Vehicles in 2002.
DaimlerChrysler has a global workforce with manufacturing facilities in 37 countries, a global shareholder base
(DaimlerChrysler is owned by European, U.S. and other international investors - approximately one billion shares are
circulating), globally known brands and a global outlook with strategic partners in Japan (Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus
Corporation, Mitsubishis Corporation) and in South Korea (Hyundai Motor Company).
DaimlerChrysler's strategy rests on four pillars: Global Presence, Strong Brands, Broad Product Range, and Technology Leadership.
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| e2v technologies | |
e2v technologies is a UK company engaged in the development and manufacture of high technology components and sub-systems
which exploits its expertise in materials science. Turnover is circa £95m and e2v has approximately 1270 employees which
includes over 350 engineers and scientists. The products are manufactured on two sites and include: imaging sensors and
cameras; CCDs, visible light cameras and thermal imagers, gas sensors, high voltage high current RF devices, solid state RF /
microwave devices and components. A broad range of markets are served which include: medical and scientific, space and
astronomical, broadcast communications, defence, industrial, commercial, marine, aerospace and automotive. Over 70% of the
products are exported.
e2v is supplying 77GHz frequency sources into a number of Adaptive Cruise Control systems.
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| EADS Deutschland GmbH | |
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS http://www.eads.net) is Europe's premier aerospace and defence company and No. 2 worldwide. EADS comprises the activities of the founding partners Aerospatiale Matra S.A. (France), Construcciones Aeronuticas S.A. (Spain) and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (Germany). EADS is a worldwide leader on several markets: commercial space launchers (Ariane), commercial and military helicopters (Eurocopter), commercial aircraft (Airbus), missiles (MBDA, LFK), satellites (Astrium), military aircraft (43 percent of Eurofighter, 46.5 percent of Dassault) and military transport aircraft. In 2001 EADS revenues amounted to 30,8 billion EURO, of which 80 percent is civil activities and 20 percent in the military sector. EADS employs more than 100,000 people at over 70 sites in France (37 %), Germany (35 %), Great Britain and Spain. EADS is an N.V. according to Dutch company law. The central functions of the company are located in Munich and Paris. EADS Corporate Research Centre (CRC), with sites in Germany and France, provides world-class research capabilities in main aeronautics research topics such as materials, processes, structure engineering, systems environment and information technologies for engineering. It is an operational and strategic asset for creation of added value for EADS by driving innovation and sharing skills, facilities and research activities with EADS Business Units (as core actor within the EADS Research and Technology network) and with external research organisations and universities as well as other industrials. Long term partnerships with external research organisations, and in particular with academic laboratories, is a key element of the innovation strategy of the Group and of the CRC, evidenced in some areas by the creation of joint research laboratories. The EADS Corporate Research Center Germany is the German part of the EADS Corporate Research Centre. It is legally an organisation within EADS Deutschland GmbH, the German subsidiary of EADS N.V. It has a permanent staff of 200 people, 70 % of which are senior scientists. Its objective is to carry out research activities, which require a concentration of skills or equipment and which correspond to cross-Business-Units Interests in the following technical fields:
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| Emerson & Cuming / ICI Belgium N.V. | |
For more than 50 years, Emerson & Cuming has applied its considerable expertise in adhesives, coatings and encapsulants to
the most demanding circuit and component assembly applications. Emerson & Cuming delivers the highest quality materials,
including STYCAST encapsulants, ECCOBOND adhesives, glob top encapsulants, underfill encapsulants, surface mount adhesives,
solder alternatives, film adhesives and conformal coatings.
The European headquarters of the company are in Westerlo, Belgium with sales offices in Italy, Germany, Sweden,
United Kingdom and France. A list of distributors of the Emerson & Cuming products can be obtained upon request.
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| Faurecia | |
Faurecia is one of the global leaders in the automotive supply industry. It specializes in the design and assembly of six
major vehicle modules: seats, cockpits, doors, acoustic package, front ends and exhaust systems. An engineering and services
group for the automotive industry, Faurecia has a turnover of almost 10 billion euros and employs 59,000 people. Operating
160 sites in 27 countries, the group is the second largest automotive supplier in Europe in terms of sales to automakers.
Faurecia designs, develops and manufactures modules, in other words, vehicle subassemblies that are delivered as complete
physical entities to automakers' assembly lines.
Faurecia's capacity for innovation enables the group to deliver value to its customers. At Faurecia, 6,2% of turnover
is devoted to research and development, with 5,000 engineers employed in 22 technical and research centers.
This unique potential enables the group to anticipate consumers' expectations and to respond to automakers' specific
constraints.
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| Hella KG Hueck & Co | |
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| IBEO Automobile Sensor GmbH | |
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The industrial part of the IBEO Group is highly specialized in the field of geometrical laser based measurement sensors and
measurement systems. The IBEO Group has created during its existence since 1980 several world novelties. Among these were
laser based surveying instruments in the early eighties, laser based sensors for the industry up to navigation sensors for
AGV, non - reflector total stations for surveying and based on these products: laser safety scanners, and in the late nineties
laser based surroundings measurement systems for automotive applications. Today, the IBEO Group belongs to the SICK AG, which
is also well known worldwide for their scanning lasers for industrial applications.
In 1998, the IBEO Automobile Sensor GmbH (IBEO) was founded in order to put more focus on the development of scanning lasers
for automotive applications. Therefore, IBEO concentrated on development of algorithms for object tracking and on
miniaturization of the laserscanner sensor.
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| Infineon Technolgies AG | |
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany, offers semiconductor and system solutions for the automotive and
industrial sectors, for applications in the wired communications markets, secure mobile solutions as well as memory products.
In the fiscal year 2002 the company achieved sales of Euro 5.2 billion with about 30,000 employees worldwide.
The company is in the sensors business since more than 20 years, especially for pressure, temperature and hall sensors.
One of the major steps into advanced microsystems for automotive applications was the development of a pressure sensor
IC in surface micromachining which is in production since 1998. Today both Pressure Sensor ICs and Hall ICs are the main
focus of its sensor activities.
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| Investitionsbank Berlin | |
The automotive and microtechnology sectors continue to be extraordinarily
sectors offering a variety of new perspectives.
Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) focuses its attention on these highly innovative areas.
As an experienced and competent partner, Investitionsbank Berlin assists companies of the
automotive and the microtechnology sector in the implementation of their projects.
Offering technical and strategic advice as well as financial support, IBB provides a new
type of assistance for co-operation between private research and the finance sector.
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| Lear Corporation | |
Lear Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Michigan, USA, focuses on integrating complete automotive
interiors, including electrical and electrical systems.
LEAR Corporation is developing its research activities through the European Technological Center (ETC).
The European Technological Center was created in Spain in 1997 to develop advanced electrical and electronic distribution
architectures for the vehicles (2010/2015) with the integration of the new technologies that currently are appearing
(new buses, new devices, 42V networking,..). Its activities are well supported by different external partners, such as
Universities and Technological Centers and also key experts' suppliers.
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| Melexis GmbH | |
Melexis designs, develops, tests and markets advanced integrated semiconductor devices for the automotive
industry. The company sells its products to a wide customer base of leading automotive system integrators in
Europe, North America and Japan. Melexis? main products are automotive microcontrollers, Hall sensor ICs,
interface ICs, pressure, acceleration, infrared and optical sensor ICs, LIN bus ICs, application specific
integrated circuits (ASICS), RF ICs and contactless identification ICs (RFID), in each case principally for
automotive applications. Melexis is a technological leader in the design and development of programmable Hall
sensor and infrared sensor ICs and LIN bus technology. ICs for automotive sensors form the largest part of
Melexis? sales and about 200 car models currently in production carry Melexis Ics
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| Mitsubishi Electric Corp. | |
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| Motorola GmbH | |
In the year 2000, global sales of Motorola Inc. was $37.5 billion. The European fabrication, research and development, marketing and support activities in France, UK and Germany comprise over 19,000 people and generated $7.8 billion in sales.
In the automotive semiconductors market segment, Motorola is the largest semiconductor vendor world wide with a balanced
portfolio of Microcontroller, Analog, Power and Sensor products. The MEMS based sensor activities are focussed on motion
and pressure sensing.
The R&D activities of Motorola Semiconductors in Germany are concentrated on automotive product and systems development,
supported by model based design methodologies. The system R&D has placed Motorola into a leadership position for in-vehicle
networking systems with support for LIN, CAN and FlexRay. The associated semiconductor products are ranging from very small
footprint devices to extremly powerful embedded control solutions.
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| Oechsler AG | |
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| ProSyst Software AG | |
ProSyst is a leading provider of Embedded Java and OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative) compliant software.
ProSyst offers end-to-end solutions for the network-based control of devices and the delivery of services and applications
into vehicles and homes. ProSyst enables the time-and cost-effective development, deployment and management of services, such
as dynamic software updates, remote control, remote diagnosis and maintenance, data exchange and infotainment content.
Its solutions allow the integration of various technologies and communication protocols, letting them complement each other
instead of ruling each other out. Thus, ProSyst's solutions extremely reduce concept to launch time, help to improve quality
and to develop more innovative products and services in a highly flexible market.
ProSyst was established in 1997 and currently employs 200 people, of whom 150 are Java developers and consultants.
The company is headquartered in Cologne, Germany. Shareholders include SAP AG among others. For further information please
visit www.prosyst.com.
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| Ricardo Consulting Engineers Ltd | |
Ricardo plc is a leading engineering technology provider to the automotive industry world-wide. Ricardo undertakes
research, design and development projects and provides strategic consultancy services. As one of the foremost independent
automotive consultancies Ricardo employs over 1,400 people, seventy percent of whom are highly qualified graduate
engineers and technicians. The list of Ricardo clients includes all of the major vehicle manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers
and these are supported from advanced technical centres in the UK, North America, Germany and the Czech Republic. Ricardo
expertise covers product design, electronics and control, computer simulation, analysis, prototype manufacture and development
testing to provide a high quality engineering service ranging from individual component design to complete new powertrain and
vehicle programmes.
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| Robert Bosch GmbH | |
Second largest automotive supplier of the world and world?s largest sensor manufacturer.
Development and fabrication of micromechanical sensors in surface and bulk-micromachining
technology.
Development and fabrication of ASICs and sensors for safety applications and motor
management in Reutlingen.
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| Sagem SA | |
Groupe SAGEM is an internationally based high-technology group, a leader among French groups in the field of
telecommunications, among European groups in electronics for defence and security, and a world leader in
fingerprint-based biometrics. SAGEM has operations in more than 20 countries. SAGEM employed 12097 people and had
a turnover of 2 763M? in year 2002.
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