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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…)
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Cockpit is Crossroads of Automotive, Digital Worlds

The in-car experience is a reimagined one in new vehicles—built around a digital cockpit and an automotive OS. The digital cockpit is a software-defined dashboard system to provide controls and displays of numerous types, integrating the likes of comfort controls, infotainment, navigation, and more—all using multi-modal interfaces. Its user interface presents vehicle occupants with these…

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Antolin Vivar Concept Poses New Interior Experience

Grupo Antolin has presented their new virtual concept car, the Antolin Vivar—the supplier’s latest design exercise to strike the balance between current and future mobility. This concept respects the roots of the company, while pushing forward their vision of the future. The Vivar offers a more sustainable, polyvalent, and comfortable space for users to enjoy…

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LG’s 57″ Display Has Multilayer OLED Technology

LG Display has installed the latest display technology across the entire dashboard of a concept car also equipped with an LG lightweight sound system. LG showed with a concept car a display with P-OLED, a double-layer OLED with two organic light-emitting layers. The technology is said to have greater brightness and durability than single-layer OLED…

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Faurecia Auraloop to Replace Car Seat Foam

Auraloop is a new range of cushioning solutions for automotive seating, made from an innovative structure of 100-per-cet recyclable polyester-based fibers. One of the objectives of Auraloop is a halving of the carbon footprint of car seat pads, currently made from polyurethane foam. Auraloop also offers an increased level of performance in terms of thermal…

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Covestro’s Multi-Material Smart Surfaces

New materials bring polyvalence to in-car surfaces, unleashing whole new kinds of design concepts. Automakers are introducing new patterns to car surfaces: natural materials and surfaces with an authentic look and feel are trending—wood grains, fabric-like woven textures and textiles, cork, and stone.  Covestro has developed a dedicated material that can balance the stiffness of…

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‘Smart’ HVAC for Volkswagen ID.7

For the new ID.7 teased at CES this year, Volkswagen is introducing an air-conditioning system that cools or heats the vehicle’s interior faster, even before occupants enter. The new feature is made possible by electronically controlled air vents that move air throughout the vehicle interior when the driver approaches with the key. Voice commands can…

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Mercedes-Benz CLA: Latest Cabin Features

The latest CLA Coupe and CLA Shooting Brake from Mercedes-Benz feature upgraded standard equipment in the vehicle cabin. The comfort seats, which feature in both the CLA Coupe and CLA Shooting Brake as standard feature a combination of Artico man-made leather (substitute for real leather, a form of vinyl material), and 3D-embossed, black fabric. The…

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Dating
Special to DVN-Interior by Athanassios Tubidis

Ever since the first internal combustion engine needed an electric spark to get going, electricity and mobility, two entirely different perceptions of the modern world and equally two different industry cultures, were married to eternity. In highly competitive enterprises such as the automotive one, alliances between different businesses are not just a form of coexistence…

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Times Are Changing for Eco-Friendly Interiors

Significant changes are evolving in the interior car space. With the global surge of electrification of vehicles from internal combustion engines, everything associated with cars is now experiencing a renaissance of change for using eco-friendly materials, efficiency, power savings, and aero designs. For years, cloth and vinyl have been mainstream interior choices, with genuine leather…

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