As you pull into a freeway towards your favorite holiday destination 200 miles out of the city, you put your car into cruise control so you can rest your back. Automatically the speed sets to 120 mph and you can now remove your foot off the accelerator pedal. The seats recline and the AC turns to silent mode. The suspensions become softer for a smoother ride and the steering wheel moves up by 30 cms to give you more legroom. The car's Bluetooth controller moves your phone to silent and the photo chromatic windows turn darker. The radio switches to soft music playing in the background. The next 2 hours to your holiday will be nothing short of a business class travel with any major air carrier.
And all you did was flick a switch! Welcome to the world of Smart Cars. We at KPIT Cummins are the brains that collaborate with Automotive OEMs and Tier 1's to build such innovation into vehicles.
Research shows that by 2010, an average car will have 100 Million lines of code, 50 ECUs, and software that will account for 13% of the cost of the car. At the same time electronics will account for 35% of the cost of the car. The rapidly changing market dynamics are pushing OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to reduce their product's time to market and streamline product design, development and deployment to deliver more marketable and reliable vehicles. This includes not just the mechanical parts of the car, but also the electronics - or the 'brains' of the car. Every feature and every functionality needs to be brought from the designer's head to the assembly line. That too with high reliability. Failure here could cost lives.
As an Automotive SPICE® Level 5 certified vendor, SIL 3 Member, a premium member with AUTOSAR®, and a member with JASPAR®, we strategically partner with our customers to reduce product development lifecycle and hasten time to market for these products. Our customers are leveraging our expertise to increase innovation, manage globalization, and reduce costs across the manufacturing and production cycle. We pay maximum attention to quality and drive the Zero-Defects initiative into all our 'Automotive Grade Software'.
We are the only company in India to own a networking IP that is used in 78 ECUs and 45 Microcontrollers. Our in house tools cater to the end to end calibration and configuration of products. This domain excellence is showcased by the fact that 13 of the top 15 automotive OEMs and the top 30 Tier 1 suppliers leverage our technology expertise on automotive electronics to accelerate product development cycles and push the envelope of automotive innovation.
