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A more comfortable, safe and sustainable world.
Whether you’re at home, in a car, or in an office or workplace, chances are there’s a Johnson Controls product or service nearby, helping to make your environment more comfortable, safe and sustainable.
We provide innovative automotive interiors that help make driving more comfortable, safe and enjoyable. For buildings, we offer products and services that optimize energy use and improve comfort and security. We also provide batteries for automobiles and hybrid electric vehicles, along with systems engineering and service expertise.
Automotive Experience: Global leader in interior systems for light vehicles including passenger cars and light trucks. Systems supplied include seating, overhead, door, instrument panels, electronics.
Power Solutions: World’s largest manufacturer of lead acid automotive batteries and developer of advanced battery chemistries and hybrid technology. Products provided include hybrid and lead acid batteries which can meet various kinds of requirements.
Building Efficiency: Leading full-line service provider of mechanical equipment as well as systems that control heating, ventilating, air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, security and fire management in non-residential buildings. Services include complete mechanical and electrical maintenance.
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Every facet of our lives in every corner of our world is affected by design, from how we work to how we play. Autodesk customers are redesigning the face of that world and how we experience it, from new and innovative processes to the creation of things never before seen. Through visualization, simulation, and analysis, Autodesk is revolutionizing the way design is done, and enabling customers to experience their ideas before they are real. Whether it is a bicycle or a building, the ability to predict real - world performance allows the rapid exploration of design alternatives, and this in turn enables changes and improvements to how things look and perform to be made early in the design process. Such a process of design yields many benefits, including saving time and money; improving collaboration; reducing errors and speeding time to market; increasing sustainability through reduced material usage; and fostering greater quality and innovation. Designers, architects, and engineers today are faced with unprecedented challenges, from the digitization of everyday life and globalization to a rapidly shifting global infrastructure and climate change. Autodesk solutions are enabling those who will face these challenges to do so with the most powerful and innovative tools that today’s technology can generate.
Retroconcept is owned by Living Planit and integrates the Mobility Platform developed for Oporto City in Portugal. This pilot project provides technologies, methodologies and business and financing models to improve all aspects of urban and rural mobility. Comprehensive and cohesive strategies and solutions include intelligent traffic and parking management, health and safety systems (collision avoidance, emergency response, prognostics), navigation and communication systems for transportation (trains, subway, trams, buses, taxis, municipal vehicles), private vehicles (including electric vehicles, vehicle-to-vehicle communication), renewable energy infrastructure (vehicle-to-grid), emissions control and reduction, carbon trading, smart walls and surfaces.
Retroconcept is responsible for developing and producing electric vehicles to operate under this technological platform, and under the Vinci brand will produce the ‘Planit Vinci’ – an intelligent electric sports car designed for the Planit Valley intelligent city project – and the ‘Eco Vinci’ electric urban commuter, which will integrate into the Mobility Platform developed for Oporto in Portugal.
These vehicles will integrate the most advanced technologies to provide interactive in-car services such as internet connectivity, SMS messaging, music, video, banking and navigation. These services can be operated by voice command and via other devices co-developed with technology partners of Planit Valley – the first urban-scale intelligent city.
Semcon is a global company active in the areas of engineering services and product information. The Group has sites at 40 locations on three continents with around 2,850 employees who have extensive experience from many different development-intensive sectors. Semcon helps companies develop products that boost sales and boost competitive strength. This occurs in both single assignments and projects where specific teams are formed to develop innovative solutions for the entire product development chain from requirement studies to finished product.
The Automotive R&D business area is Semcon´s single largest business. Our range is aimed at product development for customers in the global automotive industry.
Automotive R&D complements the vehicle manufacturers´ own resources and Semcon´s activities are adapted to meet customers´ requirements. Our business is based on new development and changes to model programmes among the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers. The business area provides expertise in design, construction, testing, simulations and production of prototypes. Our joint expertise and experience mean that we can provide complex, complete solutions where we supply everything from idea to finished product.
Stile Bertone was founded by Nuccio Bertone in 1972 as independent Design Company operating in all sectors of Transportation, Nautical, and Aeronautical Industry, Architecture and Industrial Design. Within these sectors Stile Bertone is working in the areas of Styling, Engineering, Model Making and Prototyping as well as Construction of Concept Vehicles and fully performing One-Off Cars.
Stile Bertone is a full service supplier for turn key projects and provides services from the design idea through all phases of design development and engineering up to the realization of the fully functional and performing product. Our success is driven by the experience of our specialists, the cutting-edge technology in our workshops and the excellent cooperation with our customers during the execution of the projects.
Stile Bertone’s headquarter in Caprie (Italy), few kilometers from Turin into the Susa Valley has been progressively updated und extended over the time. The virtual reality room is the most recent achievement in Stile Bertone’s continuous commitment to applying advanced technologies.
Stile Bertone is a globally renowned “Design Boutique of Excellence”, committed to delivering Style, Elegance and Beauty into your hands and operating as full service supplier in design development for the worldwide industry.
The Volkswagen Group, with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. In 2007, the Group increased the number of vehicles delivered to customers to 6.189 million (2006: 5.734 million), corresponding to a 9.8 per cent share of the world passenger car market.
In Western Europe, the largest car market in the world, almost one in every five new cars (19.5 per cent) comes from the Volkswagen Group. Group sales rose in 2007 to 108.9 billion euros (2006: 104.9 billion). Profit after tax in the 2007 financial year amounted to 4.12 billion euros (2006: 2.75 billion)
The Group is made up of eight brands from six European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, Skoda and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.
Each brand has its own character and operates as an independent entity in the market. The product range extends from low-consumption small cars to luxury class vehicles. In the commercial vehicle sector, the product offering spans pick ups, buses and heavy trucks.
If you are looking for a partner in any of these areas then we can help. With over thirty years experience and many auto industry clients around the globe, we really understand our clients’ requirements and provide high quality services.
- Our recruitment teams recruit for temporary and permanent placements and Technicon Design holds an extensive database of hand-picked international professionals.
- The core competencies of our studios lay in CAD supported quality assurance of the product development process as well as the creation of new design concepts
- A more recent addition to Technicon’s portfolio of services is specialist digital training courses.
The Technicon Design Academy is an Autodesk Authorized Training Centre and offers a range of Alias courses from Sketch via Class A Surfacing to Visualisation.
In a rapidly changing world the staff in our offices in Germany, France, UK, USA and China have unrivalled knowledge of the industry’s new challenges and ongoing demand for innovative design solutions.
We work with people - for people. Can we work with you?
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Design Consulting GmbH was founded in 2001 to provide design services and professional personnel to the automotive and Industrial Design industry.
We specialise in providing a fast and uncomplicated service using fully trained professionals.
Design Consulting is based in three countries working for worldwide clients.
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Futura was founded, and still run today, by experts from the design industry. We know from personal experience the demands and challenges you face and the range of expertise required. The core of our business is sourcing the most experienced professionals who are capable of carrying out the best possible design services for our clients. Above all, we understand the strengths and capabilities of our consultants in detail, so that we can match them precisely to your requirements. With over 900 candidates in our portfolio we have the right people ready to work with you.
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