The Inside Light Shines Extra-Bright
Interior lighting was a key topic on the agenda of the latest DVN Workshop, held in Munich shortly ago on 28–29 January. Presentations and exhibitions there at the Workshop demonstrated…
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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…)
Lighting is the New Chrome
It’s a sure sign of the increasing importance of interior lighting in the greater world of vehicle lighting: the DVN Workshop in Munich this past 28–29 January included five lectures…
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Corning, LG in Auto Interior Design Pact
Glass specialists Corning say the evolution of automotive interior displays has similarities to that of consumer electronics: users want larger, curved, and more immersive display designs. Corning’s ColdForm technology for…
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BMW’s Mixed Reality HUD with Futurus
BMW has teamed up with Chinese digital display experts Futurus to create a new kind of HUD (head-up display) involving whole-windshield augmented reality displays. Chian Futurus showed off their new…
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Amazon Alexa, Lamborghini Style
At CES this year, Lamborghini showed their Huracán EVO equipped with Alexa, the cloud-based voice service from Amazon. Amazon’s been making multiple entries lately in the automotive industry. Following their…
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Eyesight, Antolin Team for In-Cabin Monitoring
Eyesight Technologies and Grupo Antolin have entered into a partnership to provide driver and occupancy monitoring solutions to the world’s automakers. Eyesight is an Israel-based provider of computer vision AI…
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Jaguar’s Morphable Seat of the Future
Jaguar Land Rover is developing what they call the “seat of the future”: a shape-shifting system designed to improve driver and passenger wellbeing. The morphable seat, being trialed by JLR’s…
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Are These the Tesla Y’s 3rd–Row Seats?
The Tesla Model Y is an upcoming electric compact crossover in development by Tesla, based on their Model 3 sedan’s platform. It was unveiled in March 2019, and reports are…
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Lucid Air’s Big Interior Space
Lucid Motors announced they will unveil the production version of their Air electric sedan in New York this April, ahead of the first deliveries planned later this year. In 2017,…
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Luxury, American Style
Luxury, premium, near-luxury, near-premium, sport-luxury…there seems no end to hyper-segmentation of the upper end of the vehicle market. It’s mostly now defined by the German automakers, but there was a…
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