Category: Automotive

This blog was authored by Carine MacPherson, Patrick Bartsch, Chavi Gupta, Mehran Najafi, Stefano Marzani, Brett Francis, and Michael Garcia. Today, BlackBerry announced that customers who build mission-critical, deterministic, embedded systems using BlackBerry QNX, such as those in the automotive, robotics, aerospace, avionics, energy and medical industries, now, have the agility, speed, and scale of […]

“Times are changing” – when Bob Dylan published his record breaking album in 1964, the automotive industry was riding on a wave of success. Cars became widely available for the public, and luxury icons such as the Porsche 911 were born. Today, Bob Dylan’s words resonate much more with anyone involved in the automotive industry, […]

Volkswagen Group manufactures ten of the world’s most iconic automotive brands, including Audi, Lamborghini, and Porsche. With the goal of becoming the world’s leading software-driven automotive company, the Group is embracing a cloud-first mentality and revolutionizing its global operations. This includes transforming its automotive manufacturing and logistics processes by building the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud on […]

Tips for Managing Your Vendors Securely, While Maintaining Control Today’s episode is a continuation of our conversation with Robert Albach, a leader in product management for secure firewall / industrial security at Cisco Systems. We’ll dive into the complex world of securely managing vendor integration and the importance of doing it while maintaining control within […]

It’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month!  In 2003, the National Cybersecurity Alliance and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. To recognize this annual tradition, join AWS for a 4-part mini-series highlighting the different ways cybersecurity impacts your industrial landscape, especially since, as Caroline points out, “Over the pandemic, cyber events […]

BMW Group and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a comprehensive strategic collaboration in 2020. The goal of the collaboration is to further accelerate the BMW Group’s pace of innovation by placing data and analytics at the center of its decision-making. A key element of the collaboration is the further development of the Cloud Data Hub […]

The automotive industry is going through a major transformation to address the growing demand for connected, electric, and autonomous vehicles. This transformation opens up new opportunities and benefits for automakers and automotive suppliers. Customers receive new features from over-the-air (OTA) updates that facilitate functionality in software without ever visiting a service station. Automotive manufacturers can […]

Autonomous vehicles (AV) must be driven hundreds of millions of miles – and sometimes hundreds of billions of miles – to demonstrate their reliability in terms of fatalities and injuries. There is a need for alternative methods to supplement real-world testing including virtual testing and simulations, mathematic modeling and analysis, and scenario and behavior testing. In this […]

Introduction Hot work is defined as any operation that could be an origin of ignition in an environment with flammable materials. According to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), hot work is one of the most common causes of worker death. It is also leading cause of industrial fires. A hot work […]

Embedded software developers in the automotive industry have used a traditional embedded development methodology that has been largely unchanged for decades. The embedded target system that the software is being written for is by nature resource constrained with limited memory, compute, and input/output capacity. Additionally, embedded development systems are often expensive and a scarce commodity […]