By T Murrali: Wish You A Happy And Prosperous New Year. December seems to be a month divided equally for work and the other half for vacation preparation and vacation itself. But it is not so for the hardcore innovators, especially the ‘ideating heads’ of the automotive companies. They have more than one thing to […]
Category: Innovation
For Innovation, Speed Thrills, Not Kills!
By T Murrali: Every New Year marks also the unfolding of many innovations, mainly in electronics,thanks to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in early January. At CES 2109 most of the exhibits were on infotainment, ADAS, electronic mirrors, driver monitoring systems and impressive and intelligent instrument clusters. Most of them were targeted […]
Innovations Galore!
By T Murrali: I was at the IAA 2018 show in Hannover recently and it appeared as a hot spot of innovative technologies. You will see details about many of them in the Cover Story of this edition. I was surprised to know that the automotive industry accounted for 40 percent of all new patent […]
Confirming Safety Through Innovation
By T Murrali: September is the month of ‘Innovations.’ Maybe of every other year, 2018 included. Two major exhibitions, Automechanika Frankfurt, for the aftermarket, and IAA in Hannover, for OEMs, will flood the expos with inventions and innovations this month. The principal target group for both is the auto component manufacturers from all over the […]
Innovation Involving Safety
By T Murrali: Several events, interesting mainly to scientists and engineers, happened in June,2018. A notable programme among them was the ‘Innovation Days 2018’ for five days from June 25 in Detroit and Chicago. Organised by the Rome and Chicago Offices of the Italian Trade Agency, it was a good opportunity for the Midwestern companies […]
Innovation Pays
By T Murrali The term ‘innovation’ began to gain currency as a concept associated with science and industry in the nineteenth century and it was perhaps the harbinger of Industrial Revolution. Subsequently a host of factors helped `innovation’ to evolve into a culture, at least in countries where the governments built labs for research and […]