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CATIA is Dassault Systèmes pioneer brand and the world's leading solution for product design and innovation. Several thousand companies in multiple industries worldwide have chosen the virtual design capabilities of CATIA products. It delivers solutions for the enterprise, from large OEMs through their supply chains to small and medium businesses.
CATIA for Creative Designers and CATIA Icem solutions covers the entire shape design, styling or surfacing workflow from industrial design to Class A. Our intuitive and easy to use shape design tools give everyone involved in the product design process, a real freedom to design any kind of complex shapes. Advanced functionalities include reverse engineering, Class-A surfacing, rapid propagation of design changes, powerful real-time diagnostic tools and high-end visualization. CATIA enables shape designers or design studios and engineering departments to work collaboratively in optimizing the product design for aesthetic and engineering purposes.
CATIA Website
Dassault Systèmes is a world leader in 3D and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, and the company’s software and services allow businesses of any size in any industry around the globe to digitally define and simulate products, as well as the processes and resources required to manufacture, maintain and recycle them while sustaining our environment.
Dassault Systèmes Website
CGT has been making coated fabrics for the automotive industry since 1928. Today, many cars and light trucks produced in North America and China have soft interior trim products with CGT fabrics in them. We offer a range of materials that are an economical and durable substitute for leather. Most consumers can't tell the difference! See for yourself.
Our quality is the benchmark of the industry and we are ISO/TS 16949 compliant throughout our organization. Although PVC continues to be the cost and performance benchmark for the industry, recycling and environmental concerns are causing a shift towards alternative materials. Our long standing global alliances ensure that we have the right technologies available to us at the right time.
CGT website
Miko is a leading Italian company within the microfiber market, listed in the Eurispes 2008 report on “Italian Excellence”. Funded in 1997, it quickly revolutionised the industry by creating DINAMICA®, the first ecological microfibers with unique characteristics, suitable for a variety of purposes and applications. As evidence of Miko’s commitment to the environment, in June 2010 Miko won first price at the Green Factor Awards in the Italian Green Innovator category and in 2011 the Italian Business Awards for the Environment (Premio Impresa Ambiente) for the category best environmental product.
DINAMICA® isproduced using a combination of recycled polyester through an innovative water-based manufacturing process during which no harmful chemical solvents are used. The company has created two solutions for the automotive market: DINAMICA® AUTO and DINAMICA® AUTO STRETCH, recyclable microfibers that are environmentally friendly and comply with the highest standards.
Both microfibers have been chosen by leading automotive companies for their car interiors thanks to their green credentials, unrivalled technical qualities and their incomparable aesthetic features; perfect for both seats and backrests of car-seats, as well as panels, roof lining, and car door interiors. Range Rover Evoque, Citroen DS5, Mercedes ML, Opel Astra GTC and Cadillac CTS-V are a few models that have chosen to use DINAMICA®.
Dinamica - Miko website
When innovative interior lighting technologies and environmentally-friendly insulation products are required, global vehicle-makers are increasingly turning to Federal-Mogul to develop the solution.
The company’s extensive portfolio includes a complete range of interior lighting products such as the latest LED touch-free technology, ultrathin lighting components and ambient and accent lighting modules that offer styling innovations in all interior environments with cleaner designs and improved optics control.
The company’s leading system protection products guard against abrasion, thermal, noise and electrical interference, including award-winning QuietShield® that offers environmentally-friendly acoustic insulation composed of recycled materials from current vehicle maker’s factory waste stream.
Federal-Mogul Corporation is an innovative and diversified $ 6.2 billion global supplier of quality products and creative solutions to the world’s foremost original equipment manufacturers of automotive, light commercial, heavy-duty and off-highway vehicles, as well as power generation, aerospace, marine, rail and industrial; and the worldwide aftermarket.
Federal-Mogul enables engineers and designers to attain new benchmarks in interior functionality and environmental responsiveness. Globally-networked engineering and technical centers in the U.S., Europe and Asia partner with customers to develop new technologies in order to enhance design capabilities and improve manufacturing efficiencies.
KISKA is one of Europe‘s leading design agencies acknowledged especially within the motorcycle industry, having over the past twenty years worked with nearly all of the major motorcycle manufacturers in the world. It was, however, back in 2007 that it developed its first car, the KTM X-BOW.
At this time KISKA took the strategic decision to invest into understanding material innovation and application. Exploring new techniques and manufacturing processes, usually only associated with scientists and engineers, KISKA looked at how this understanding could be better integrated sooner into the concept development process making it leaner and faster.
KISKA uses its expertise in design, engineering and lightweight to help its clients anticipate changes within their industries and help them to solve the new challenges they face. The border between cars, motorbikes, trains, planes, bicycles and skateboards is currently undertaking monumental shifts and the need for new thinking and doing is essential.
Present in 160 countries, with 10,000 outlets, Peugeot combines motion and emotion everywhere. In 2010, the year of its 200th anniversary, Peugeot confirmedits place as the world’s leading French car brand, also gaining a place in the global brands’ table (9th) and sold 2,142,000 cars.
Peugeot is the only brand to have an integrated mobility offer with both private cars and vans, scooters, bikes and a wide range of services, with the Mu mobility service.
Peugeot website
Uedelhoven Studios are an internationally acclaimed engineering design service company. For more than twenty years the Studios have worked exclusively with well-established companies providing unusual solutions and innovative product ideas.
Working with international clients from the creative services and the automobile industry and with a highly motivated team of more than 150 specialists, we help to create visions of consummate perfection that reflect our very real passion for our work. We strive to provide forward-looking, integrated solutions combining technological inventiveness and a functional design aesthetic, resulting in a multifaceted portfolio of possibilities.
Uedelhoven Studios Website
The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. In 2010, the Group increased the number of vehicles delivered to customers to 7.203 million (2009: 6.336 million), corresponding to an 11.4 percent share of the world passenger car market.
In Western Europe, the largest car market in the world, just over one in five new cars (21.0 percent) come from the Volkswagen Group. Group sales in 2010 came to 126,9 billion Euros (2009: 105.2 billion) and profit after tax in the 2010 financial year amounted to 7.2 billion Euros (2009: 0.9 billion).
The Group is made up of nine brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Scania.
Volkswagen AG website
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Bose Corporation was founded in 1964 by Dr. Amar G. Bose, professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, Bose Corporation has grown into one of the largest and best-known audio technology developers and product manufacturers in the world.
While Bose is known as a leading audio manufacturer, it remains steadfastly committed to research, which has produced inventions that have improved the performance of:
• Loudspeakers
• Home entertainment systems
• Automotive sound systems
• Noise cancelling headsets
• Sound in public places
• Sound amplification for musicians
Bose website
Cliff Design is dedicated to design, working with established brands on the international scene. In being a contemporary design agency with a broad network, we can deliver with great substance and offer our clients a wider range of design services. We focus on creativity, providing the right context and the right tools for passionate designers. With a strategic approach, we always focus on the brand and the message – telling the story through concept development and design!
Cliff Design website
Eagle Ottawa is the world’s largest supplier of leather to the automotive industry headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan-USA. With longstanding tradition of blending “old world” craftsmanship with leading-edge technology – such as the industry leading anti-soiling finish system Ansolé – Eagle Ottawa creates customized grains, textures, aromas and high-durability performance to surprise and delight the most discerning of tastes. The company’s award-winning leather can be found in over 100 current models worldwide including: Acura, Audi, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Honda, Hummer, Hyundai, Infiniti, KIA, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Pontiac, Opel, Renault, Toyota and Volkswagen.
Eagle Ottawa website
Futura Design Ltd have a proven track record of more than 20 years of expertise within the Automotive Industry which has earned us a worldwide reputation as one of the leading suppliers of the most experienced design professionals, as well as a valued provider of Design & Engineering services to a prestigious list of Automotive OEM’s on projects carried out at our Studio facility in Oldbury, Birmingham.
We ensure that we provide a service shaped around our customers with a tailored approach to your recruitment and project needs driven by experience, understanding and a commitment to creating lasting relationships. So the support you need, when you need it, is here.
PDD is a product and service design innovation consultancy. Our multi-talented team has a broad range of skills that, when integrated, provide exciting solutions to the complex challenges we face in this rapidly changing world. Solutions that get clients the results they need.
PDD website
The independent service provider Proof Technologies acts as a platform for the development of innovative product ideas.
The extremely flexible team permanently seeks to invent new ideas, concepts and designs. We focus on progressive materials and optimized processes for design and development departments of the automobile industry as well as material and technology suppliers.
Our philosophy “Proof-drives-innovation“ aims to bring a holistic product development for advanced concepts, integrating the best performing technologies in high-end plastics, composite materials and metals.
Proof Technologies leading competence is the development of automotive solar applications that are far beyond today’s focus on glass roofs as functional prototypes for leading car manufacturers.
RTT is an integrated provider of high-end 3D visualization software and solutions. As a strategic partner and forward thinker to its customers, RTT establishes new approaches to product development and marketing – from individual solutions all the way through to fully integrated process support.
RTT website