SAE International WCX2019: World Congress Experience

SAE International WCX™ World Congress Experience 2019 was held during 9th to 11th April 2019 in Detroit.

WCX Experience was the mobility industry’s most anticipated annual event which provided a great opportunity for more than 10,000 engineers, executives, OEMs, suppliers, decision-makers, disruptors and the entire spectrum of the mobility-engineering field.

Action filled three days of the event had provided great opportunities of expert-led technical education, peer-to-peer networking, a technology-driven exhibit floor and global mobility solutions that are shifting the marketplace. From IoT, Big Data and connectivity to automated and unmanned vehicles, and from safety, blockchain and powertrain to sustainability and cybersecurity, WCX covered several facets of the industry.

Once again Satven had a prominent presence at the 2019 SAE World Congress and also set up a booth to exhibit the engineering capabilities to the automotive world.

Career Central at WCX 2019:

Career Central was an ideal meeting place for talented professionals and students to connect with product innovators, attendees and recruiters. This year too Satven had set up a Career Fair booth to attract the best talent to meet the challenging needs of the Automotive customers.

This year the Sales and Operations team had had the opportunity to connect with the auto industry leaders, delegates, students and the visitors during the show.

ACMA Automechanika Seminar was held on 15th FEB 2019, at Pragati Maidan, in New Delhi.

This years theme of the seminar was :

‘Indian auto component industry gearing up for the future, leveraging opportunities’.

One of our Program Managers, Srinivas Yellu, from the CAE team represented Satven and presented some Future Trends in Crash Safety Simulations at a workshop which was organized by Messe Frankfurt & ACMA (Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India).

This seminar was attended by top industry leaders and had several experts in various speaker panels, who tackled a wide range of topics. This workshop helped us better understand industry trends and gave us business insights through pertinent case studies and panel discussions.

Innovative automakers, software developers and technology companies are coming together and leading the radical transformation of the global automotive industry. The auto industry scenario is highly volatile yet has opened up opportunities for new stake holders like IT, Telecom, component manufacturers, insurance, tech startups, policymakers and the OEMs to come together, deliberate and debate in order to come up with innovative ideas to create an ecosystem for sustainable technologies and policies, and lead the auto industry on its future growth path.

To help in this cause, Telematics Wire in collaboration with NASSCOM CoE – IOT, has come up with yet another international conference – Connected Vehicle 2019, which was held on 6th & 7th MAR 2019, at Hotel Radisson Blu, Bangalore.

More than 1000+ delegates had come together during the two days to discuss and debate on varied topics like:
• Telematics for Connected Vehicle
• Emerging Technologies
• Automotive in IoT
• Connectivity
• Maps & Locations
• The secure connected vehicle
• ADAS & Autonomy, etc.

The deliberations had provided good insight into topics like V2V & V2I connectivity, vehicle cybersecurity, locations and maps services and opportunities, ADAS, vehicle IoT, vehicle autonomy to name a few.

Also the deliberations touched upon the emerging business models for the connected vehicle ecosystem. Various distinguished dignitaries from Government, industry bodies and academia had participated in the event.

Satven was the Badge Sponsor at the event. Satven Corporate Communications team had setup a stall to connect with the delegates and showcase the latest capabilities in Connected Car, Auto Electronics, ADAS and IoT areas. Several delegates from Nissan, Mahindra, Scania, Volvo, Bosch, Tata Motors, etc. had visited Satven stall and evinced interest in the work being done by Satven.

Jyothi Kumar, Manager Mechatronics, was one of the panel members on the discussion topic: Vehicle telematics.

Satven team consisting of Mohan Desu, Novi TP, Parameshwaran Iyer, AjayGoutam, Praful Patil, Amit Vikram, Vignan Kuppili and Ravi Gupta participated in the conference.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd (DICV) Manufacturing Engineering team had invited Satven to participate in their prestigious Manufacturing Expo – “DiME EXPO 2018”, which was held on 12th DEC 2018, at their Oragadam Plant in Chennai. It was proud moment for Satven to be part of a select group of Daimler suppliers from across India, who were extended the exclusive invitation.

During the inaugural ceremony, Mr Satyakam Arya, MD & CEO of DICV, addressed the participants and exhibitors and briefed about the idea of hosting the manufacturing expo.

The expo was to enable Daimler and its supplier teams to come together under one roof, interact and experience the cutting edge Indian Manufacturing processes and emerging trends in the plant and production technology, the frugal engineering practices which are successfully implemented in India, where more is produced with lesser resources and minimal wastage, using local innovation techniques.

He is very clear that what works elsewhere like in the US, Europe, Japan, etc. may not always be suitable for Indian conditions, and so want to harness proven frugal engineering practices of Indian manufacturing. This contributes immensely to the idea of propagating ‘Made-In-India’ / ‘Make-In-India’.

Satven had setup a stall to showcase the Manufacturing Engineering capabilities and had the opportunity to interact with many Daimler Product Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering teams visiting the stall.

Apart from meeting the Daimler Managers and Engineers, Satven team had a chance to meet and interact with:

Mr Satyakam Arya, MD & CEO

Mr Hans-Peter Dorflinger – Director, Manufacturing Engineering, Truck ASIA

Mr Ralph Zimmerman – Director, Manufacturing Engineering, Daimler India

Mr Sreeram, Head of Daimler India Plant.

Satven team consisting of Ajaysingh Goutam, Parameswhwaran Iyer, Laskshinarayana Chilukuri and Novi, had participated in the expo.

The Japanese Technical Cooperation & Emerging Market Development Program – PASONA – METI is part of the Japan Internship Program (JIP). JIP 2018 program was for a duration of 10 weeks starting from 11th SEP to 29th NOV 2018.

The main objective of JIP – 2018 was:

Knowledge building aimed at new developments and expansion of overseas business

Improving awareness by working with foreigners and experiencing cross-cultural communication

Constructing networks and developing in-house systems in conjunction with overseas universities aimed at securing foreign talent

Satven Japan had offered internship training to bachelors from IIT and University of Carolina.

The two graduates were awarded the internship completion certificates by JETRO.

Aosaki Community Friendship Festival was held on 9th and 10th NOV 2018 in Hiroshima.

Satven Japan team which is part of the Indo Hiroshima Club had participated in the friendship festival and involved in a variety of activities with the Aosaki community.

This is the 3rd consecutive participation by the Indo Hiroshima Club in this festival.

Friendship festival fosters community pride, teaches people new things about Japanese culture and, strengthens relationships.

Among the visitors on the day were a number of Mazda team members along with their families who were delighted to see the Satven team interacting and entertaining the Japanese community.

All were treated with delicious Indian snacks and cuisine and had a chance to see the traditional clothing & accessories of the India people.

The 13th Indo-Japan Annual Summit was held in Tokyo on 29th OCT 2018.

Honorable Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi and Honorable Prime Minister of Japan Shri Shinzo Abe had signed an MOU to strengthen the ties between the two countries and mutually increase trade and the investment in both the countries.

During the summit JETRO ( Japan External Trade Organization) had signed and MOU with Satven to extend necessary support for Satven’s future business in Japan.

The 37th edition of the FISITA World Automotive Congress 2018 was held in Chennai between 2nd ~ 5th OCT 32018, at Chennai Trade Center. The FISITA 2018 theme was:

Disruptive Technologies for Affordable and Sustainable Mobility.

It was a forum for industry experts, executives and engineers to exchange ideas and discuss the trends that drive the automotive industry forward.

Several major global auto OEMs, Tier-I & II suppliers and several professionals from industry and academia, students and automotive enthusiasts had come together and benefited from the 4 days interactions, exhibitions and presentations by global leaders of the auto industry.

Apart from the plenary sessions in the main hall, there were another 10 halls earmarked for parallel presentations on all three days on wide variety of topics such as:

• Connected Cars, Autonomous Mobility Solutions, Bio-Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence, ADAS, Electric Power Train; Ride, Comfort and Handling; Fuel Economy, Advanced Transmission Technologies, xEV technologies, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Frugal Engineering Design, Automotive Safety, Human Behavior in Transportation, PowerTrain NVH, etc.
Satven had setup a booth at this prestigious show. Several esteemed delegates from the automotive world had graciously visited the stall and were curious to know about the engineering solutions that Satven has to offer.
Few among the several esteemed delegates who visited Satven stall are:
• Hiroaki Okuchi San, Executive Vice President, TMC
• Akihito Tanke San, Executive Advisor to President, TMC
• Akito Tachibana San, who was Managing Director, TKM
• Katsuhisa Idei San, Managing Coordinator, TKM
• Jitendra Goyal San, General Manager, Product Development
• Kosuke Taguchi San, General Manager, TDEM
• T. K. Balaji, Managing Director, Delphi-TVS
• Brian McMurray, Vice President, GM Tech Center
• Anil Saini, Director, Design Studio, GM tech Center
• Jayaraman Sivakumar, Director, GPS, GM Tech Center

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The second edition of Dell Designathon which was held in Hyderabad on 10th and 11th SEP 2018, was based on the theme:

“Enabling human progress through design for sustainable Urbanization”.

The event covered four industry verticals:
• Architecture
• Engineering and Manufacturing
• Fashion and Lifestyle
• Media and Entertainment.
The event included workshops & mentorship programs conducted by the experts from the Indian design industry which helped the individuals to think out of box and come up with innovative ideas that are in-line with the theme.

Dell Designathon 2.0 saw participants from TCS, Cyient, Satyam Venture Engineering Services, Verizon, Orient Blackswan, Phoenix Engineering Technologies, GRN Construction, Netha Interior and Archi-tecture, Bannari Amman spinning Mills and Tat Skycraft.

Team Satven was the winner of Dell Designathon 2.0 Hyderabad, for their design concept:

“Un-Print – A paper recycling innovation”.

The Satven team that participated in the prestigious competition were: Ambrish, Abhishek, Mani Shankar and Vamshi.

Congratulations to the team for this outstanding achievement and doing Satven proud!

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The 2018 Auto Expo ‘The Motor Show’, was a grand event held at Greater Noida, close to New Delhi. The Motor Show was organised jointly by ACMA, CII and SIAM between 9th ~ 14th FEB 2018.

The theme of the 2018 show was “Co-Create, Co-Exist and Celebrate” which focused on ‘Entire Mobility Ecosystem’.

This year the show had showcased several passenger and commercial vehicles, EVs, hybrids, race cars and race bikes, three and two wheelers, apart from many concept vehicles and related advanced technologies, for the auto enthusiasts and professionals.

The auto show had portrayed a complex maze of safety, emissions and sustainability in a blueprint, to share the complex evolutionary cycle of the automobile industry.

Six special interest zones were introduced at the show:

Automotive Innovation covering Start-ups

Electric vehicles technology solution

Exotica for display of heritage cars and supercar

Motorsports for display of rally vehicles

Auto Gaming Arena

Future Mobility Experience and Application Vehicles.

The Future Mobility Experience zone had come up with the virtual reality experience of driving connected and autonomous electric vehicles on various roads to give a picture of future mobility.

In comparison to Auto Expo 2016, this year saw the number of EVs surge 10-fold to over 50 electric and hybrid vehicles as car makers drew up plans for electrification of their fresh line-up of products.

Kia Motors officially launched its brand in India and has plans to launch 16 electric vehicles by 2025.

Kia Motors plant is getting ready in Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh, with an investment of $1.1 billion and a capacity of 3 lakh units. Kia will launch a compact SUV first in India by 2019.

Kawasaki Motors had launched the famous NINJA bikes — Ninja H2 SX Standard and special edition Ninja H2 SX SE — at the Auto Expo 2018. The prices start at Rs 21.6Lakhs ex-showroom Delhi.

Satven had setup a stall to showcase the engineering capabilities at the expo this year too. Satven team had an opportunity to connect with customers, prospects, auto enthusiasts and industry professionals from several countries. Several prospective customers had visited Satven stall as seen in the pictures below.

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