Mumbai: Know-how agency Continental on Monday mentioned it’s increasing its Human Machine Interface (HMI) enterprise in India to cater to the native demand and in addition on the again of a brand new order from Korean auto main Hyundai. The corporate mentioned it has elevated its manufacturing and improvement capabilities to fulfill the rising native demand and has just lately commenced Instrument Cluster provides to Hyundai for its Verna and Venue fashions.
HMI enterprise unit is a part of the ‘Automobile Networking and Info’ (VNI) inside automotive applied sciences at Continental and is targeted on creating programs and options for a holistic human-machine interface, comparable to instrument clusters, show options, head-up shows, multimedia programs and cockpit high-performance computer systems, the corporate mentioned in a launch.
In India, the enterprise unit has been efficiently partnering with automotive OEMs to ship user-experience wealthy data programs and options, it mentioned, including in 2018, it reached a manufacturing milestone of 1 million instrument clusters a yr and cumulative over eight million for the reason that starting of clusters’ manufacturing in India.
“We’re upbeat concerning the development potential of merchandise, software program and providers that enrich the person expertise (UX) of car drivers and passengers in India. The person expertise is changing into the important thing product differentiator for automobile producers and shopping for choices by customers are influenced by UX greater than ever.
“The worldwide market is rising considerably, and the worth share can be rising in India. As a worldwide market chief on this subject, we’ve acquired some vital orders in 2020 to proceed our development journey right here,” mentioned Prasad C Basappa, Head of Enterprise Unit Human Machine Interface in India.
Because of this, the latest capability augmentation in Bangalore for HMI helps Continental’s philosophy of ‘Out there, for the market’, the corporate mentioned.
“Along with supporting the native market, our merchandise manufactured in India proceed for use on vehicles that some automobile producers export to completely different markets in Asia, North America, Europe and Africa”, Prasad C Basappa concludes.
Continental mentioned it additionally continues to ramp up the HMI R&D functionality in India, seeing the immense potential for development in HMI associated software program, it mentioned including the corporate can be looking out for applicable alternatives to make the most of this competence for the Indian market, by partnering with native OEMs which need to improve the inside digital content material.
