As this week’s Driving Vision News goes live, 230 lighting experts from more than 70 companies are at the JCMandarin Hotel in Shanghai for the DVN Workshop, first of its kind in China, centred on the rubric “Innovations for Better Light”. Participants include:
– 17 OEMs: Audi, BMW, Chery, DPCA, FAW-Toyota, FAW-VW, Ford, Great Wall, Luxgen, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, PSA, Qoros, SAIC, Shanghai GM, Shanghai VW, and Toyota.
– 24 Tier-1 lighting suppliers: Automotive lighting, Continental, Daioku, Denso, First Lighting, Fuerda, Grote, Harbin Good Time, Hella, Huazhong Lighting, Ichikoh, Koito, Mobis, Myotek, Olsa, Shanghai Koito, SL, Stanley, Valeo, Varroc, Xingyu, Yishan, Zhejiang Tianchong, and ZKW.
– 26 Tier-2 lighting suppliers: 3M, AML, Bayer, Bicomoptics, Brandenburg, DBM reflex, Docter Optics, EKC, GE, Gore Industry, GXC, Hartman-Exact, IAV, Instrument Systems, Keboda, LMT, Mentor Graphics, Nichia, Ningbo Yongjia, Optis, Osram, Philips, Pleiades Instruments, Sea Link, Sonceboz, Zollner.
We are also proud to welcome American UMTRI, Chinese Fudan university and important organisations regulating and specifying automotive lighting internationally.
All of us are now working to:
• Better know the vision in lighting of 5 OEMs who make a lecture.
• Put special focus on light sources as Xenon, LEDs, laser-based headlamps, OLEDs for front and rear lights.
• Outline the strengths and weaknesses of the new lighting technologies: Adaptive Lighting, Matrix beam, Pedestrian detection, regarding safety, environment, durability, obsolescence, standardisation, and regulations.
• Better know lighting skills in simulation/optics-thermics, components, and processes.
• Exchange our experience, desires, and ideas among American, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and European participants on new technologies for automotive lighting.
I would like to thank all the worldwide attendees and particularly Naoya Fujimoto for the keynote, the 34 speakers, the session chairmen Kamislav Fadel, Ralf Schäfer, Geoff Draper, Wolfgang Huhn, Theo Dorissen, and Rainer Neumann.
DVN team hopes that this workshop will contribute to the progress of LED technologies in the automotive market.
Sincerely yours
DVN Editor in Chief