Pricol inks strategic alliance with Candera for high-end HMI software creation

Chennai, India and Linz, Austria

Pricol Limited, one of India’s leading high-tech automotive component and precision engineered product manufacturers, today announced a strategic partnership with Candera, a leading Human-Machine Interface (HMI) tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. This technology partnership with Candera will bring global HMI solutions into Pricol’s range of Next Generation Connected Driver Information System (DIS) products serving across all vehicle segments.

This Strategic Partnership will empower both companies to respond to automotive product design opportunities in India and globally with collaborative concurrent HMI development, shorter lead time, cost effective solutions – all made possible by having a single HMI tool to support Next Generation Display Systems shall be built on various Product Platforms which is indigenously developed by Pricol.

The partnership is in line with Pricol’s continuous endeavor in adopting the next generation Emerging Technologies as well as Systems and Software process, such as high speed Multi Core Processor, Larger Displays, CGI Studio by Candera, ASPICE, AUTOSAR, ISO26262, Operating System (OS) based and Providing Connected Solutions like Over the Air (OTA), vehicle tracking, remote diagnostics, predictive maintenance etc.

Candera’s user-friendly, no-coding HMI design tool CGI Studio is a highly intuitive, scalable and hardware independent HMI design tool. It allows the development of innovative and customizable embedded GUI solutions of all kinds for the automotive area, industry and home appliances market. CGI Studio provides multi language support, includes ready-to-use HMI controls and the Candera Smart Importer for instant combination of designs with logic in only a few clicks. The result are scenes that not only feature pin sharp graphics but can also support 2D, 2.5D and 3D elements and animations.

Commenting on the alliance, Mr. Vikram Mohan, Managing Director, Pricol Limited said, “With 4 decades of expertise, Pricol has pushed the boundaries in DIS development supplying high-end solutions across various vehicle segments. Our DIS products have immensely seen advancements in their visually impactful graphics content, high demand in customer convenience and ease of understanding information. Pricol had been looking for a suitable partner to design and develop HMI solutions collaboratively. With CGI Studio, Candera brings in an HMI solution tool which makes designing 2D / 2.5D / 3D graphics easy. It’s highlight feature, the Candera Smart Importer enables all users (including those without programming skills) to automatically generate full functioning HMIs using their designs from any graphics software – opening the door to faster, more efficient HMI creation. We are delighted to be partnering with Candera to enhance our capability to deliver Next Generation Connected High-End Thin Film Transistor (TFT) based Digital Information Archiving System (DIAS) (single and multi-display) that meet our customers ever evolving technological needs.”

With more than 20 years of embedded software experience, Candera supports customers worldwide in HMI creation. “We have been working with Pricol successfully during the past 12+ months to support building POCs for brilliant HMIs”, says Mr. Reinhard Füricht, CEO of Candera. “This strategic partnership now takes our alliance to the next level and we’re looking forward to supporting our mutual, worldwide customers to be successful in their business by creating powerful HMI solutions together with Pricol’s high-end technology DIS.”

About Pricol

Pricol Limited is one of India’s leading automotive components and precision engineered products manufacturers head quartered in Coimbatore. Pricol commenced its operations in the year 1975 in Coimbatore, South India and today it strides as a reputable global brand in the automotive component and products business, highly recognized by top automotive OEMs across the world. The company carries out its business and operations in Driver Information Systems and Sensors, Pumps and Allied Products, Telematics and Wiping Systems catering to leading automotive OEMs in Two / Three Wheeler, Passenger Vehicles, Commercial Vehicles, Farm Equipment and Off-Road Vehicles across India and in International Markets (45+countries) with 2000+ product variants.

Today the company has 7 manufacturing plants across Coimbatore, NCR, Pantnagar, Pune & Sricity, 1 subsidiary manufacturing plant in Satara, India and 1 manufacturing unit in Indonesia with 2 international offices in Tokyo and in Singapore. Pricol is powered by 5000+ strong, dedicated workforce which resolutely pursues the mission to be PASSIONATE, SUSTAINABLE, DYNAMIC and EVOLVING.

For more info, visit www.pricol.com

About Candera

Candera is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. It supports its customers with the award-winning CGI Studio tool environment as well as provision of software services mainly in the areas of HMI development and embedded software. Candera GmbH in Linz/ Austria and Candera Japan Inc. in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo / Japan are both part of the ArtSpark Group situated in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo / Japan.

Candera CGI Studio @Embedded World 2023: High-Performance Automotive HMIs

Candera presents CGI Studio’s latest version 3.11 at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany, from 14.-16. March. Perfect for creating brilliant HMIs, CGI Studio 3.11 now allows direct import also from Adobe XD files via Candera’s award-winning Smart Importer. Faster than ever and more secure: accompanying documentation helps to integrate CGI Studio 3.11 in an automotive Cybersecurity environment according to ISO/SAE 21434 standard.

With Embedded World finally back in their original time slot in Mid-March, the Candera team is on-site again in Nuremberg, Germany, presenting among other highlights, the latest version of their high performing HMI tool, CGI Studio 3.11 with the award-winning Smart Importer.

Visit Candera in hall 4, booth 4-479.

Automotive Cybersecurity: CGI Studio 3.11 ready to be integrated according to ISO/SAE 21434

With CGI Studio 3.11, Candera is supporting automotive OEMs and Tier1s in the successful integration of CGI Studio into their cybersecurity-related HMI application – reaching rapid and successful type approval for newly developed vehicle models.

The document guides cybersecurity experts through the recommended way of integrating CGI Studio as an off-the-shelf product (according to ISO/SAE 21434 chapter 6.4.6). It introduces the available configuration options for an ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity software stack, discussing known vulnerabilities related to the product, as well as to the various 3rd party and OSS components.

A CVSS v3.0 vulnerability report is also attached to support Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA).

Candera’s award-winning Smart Importer now imports graphics directly from Adobe XD

Candera’s Smart Importer now also directly imports from Adobe XD – giving full support to a wide range of graphics tools. The Smart Importer automatically transforms graphics into fully functional HMIs.

Based on innovative AI-detection technologies, Candera’s Smart Importer speeds up the whole HMI creation process. While other HMI design tools require the user to import each single element and add functionality to them one after another, Candera’s Smart Importer will do a direct import of a design file and enrich it with functionality automatically.

Users can import graphics files from Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, Axure RP – and now also from Adobe XD – into CGI Studio. Relevant components like gauges, sliders, buttons, and many more are automatically detected, and the most probable functionality can be added to each element.

For more of CGI Studio’s features such as a new extended control set, accelerated and improved user interface, enhanced samples and tutorials for easy onboarding and ready-to-use line and bar charts, click here.

CGI Studio represented at ST Microelectronic’s “Graphics Partner Wall”

Our silicon partners also appreciate CGI Studio’s reliability and variability. Among them ST Microelectronics, who will for the first time be presenting two Candera demos at their Graphics Partner wall in hall 4A.

Latest Automotive NoCoding demo at Candera booth

In addition, Candera will also present a demo for a multi-display solution featuring two separate screens for the meter cluster and IVI (in-vehicle infotainment), respectively. It uses the multi-display feature of CGI Studio to achieve linking between the displays on a single SoC, all without requiring the user to do any coding.

The Candera team is looking forward to meeting you at Embedded World from March 14-16. Visit us in hall 4, booth 4-479.

Request a trial version of CGI Studio: https://cgistudio.at/hmi-design/#trial

About Candera

Candera is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. Candera supports its customers with the CGI Studio and Candera Studio tool environments, as well as provision of software services mainly in the areas of HMI development and embedded software. Candera GmbH in Linz, Austria and Candera America Inc. are part of KAGA FEI Co., Ltd. , situated in Yokohama / Japan.

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Candera exhibited new demos featuring HMI design tool CGI Studio at 15th AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2023

Candera exhibited at the 15th AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2023, a trade show featuring cutting edge automotive technology that was held at Tokyo Big Sight between January 25th and 27th.

AUTOMOTIVE WORLD is an event where the latest technology in the automobile industry is shown off. This includes advancements in automotive electronics, connected cars, autonomous driving, and more. This year’s iteration was one of the largest events of its kind since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, seeing more than 75,000 attendees over the course of three days.

Every year since it was founded Candera has shown off their latest innovations at AUTOMOTIVE WORLD, and this year as well saw many people stop by the Candera booth.

At Candera’s booth, a new demo was on display for an HMI that uses LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) to assist in parking a car. By using such an HMI, the driver would be able to get more accurate information about objects surrounding the car than what a camera can provide.

With LiDAR, an object is targeted with a laser and the time for the reflected light to come back is measured in order to determine the distance to and shape of the object.

This technology has the benefit of being relatively inexpensive, allowing it to be easily implemented into a vehicle.

In addition, Candera also showed off a demo for a multi-display solution that runs on Renesas Electronics’ R-Car H3 SoC (system on a chip). This demo features three separate screens for the meter cluster, IVI (in-vehicle infotainment), and heads-up display respectively. It also uses the multi-display feature of CGI Studio to achieve linking between multiple displays on a single SoC, all without requiring the user to do any coding.

Candera also showed off a demo for a digital meter cluster for an EV (electric vehicle) that features important information for an EV such as the battery charge and nearby charging spots. This demo uses new “Control” features introduced into CGI Studio last summer with the 3.11 update which help the user easily integrate bar and line graphs. With this demo, Candera showed their commitment to creating the future of automotive UIs and realizing a more sustainable society.

Video of the EV meter cluster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkR4wbJVgwo

There were also a number of other demos featuring CGI Studio that were shown off at the Candera booth.

With over 20 years of experience in embedded software development, Candera offers a customizable product for our broad customer base. We work closely together with our customers and industry partners to provide solutions for both current and future HMI needs.

Request a trial version of CGI Studio:

https://cgistudio.at/hmi-design/

About Candera

Candera is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. Candera supports its customers via the embedded HMI design tools Candera Studio and CGI Studio, the HMI authoring tool UI Conductor, and through the provision of services in the areas of HMI development and embedded software.

Corporate site: https://cgistudio.at/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/canderacgistudio/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZyzdK8yFY52Ot-SvaGkM_A

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CanderaGmbh

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Candera at 15th AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2023, exhibition of demos using HMI design tool CGI Studio

Candera will be exhibiting at the 15th AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2023, a trade show featuring cutting edge automotive technology that will be held at Tokyo Big Sight between January 25th and 27th 2023.

15th AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2023:

https://www.automotiveworld.jp/tokyo/en-gb.html

AUTOMOTIVE WORLD is an event where the latest technology in the automobile industry is shown off. This includes advancements in autonomous driving, electric vehicles, automotive parts and manufacturing techniques, and vehicle weight reduction. Every year since it was founded Candera has shown off their latest innovations at AUTOMOTIVE WORLD.

At their booth Candera will be showing off a demo that uses the multi-display feature that was added to CGI Studio last year with the 3.11 update. This demo uses the aforementioned feature to achieve linking between multiple displays.

In addition, there will also be a demo for an HMI that uses LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) to assist in parking a car. With LiDAR, an object is targeted with a laser and the time for the reflected light to come back is measured in order to determine the distance to and shape of the object. By using such an HMI, the driver would be able to get more accurate information about objects surrounding the car than what a camera can provide.

There will be a variety of other demos shown off at Candera’s booth as well.

Event details:

Time: January 25th – January 27th 2023, 10:00 – 17:00

Place: Tokyo Big Sight, East Halls, 3-11-1 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0063

Closest Station: Tokyo Big Sight station (3 minute walk), Kokusai-Tenjijo station (7 minute walk)

Candera booth number: 45A-44

With over 20 years of experience in embedded software development, Candera offers a customizable product for our broad customer base. We work closely together with our customers and industry partners to provide solutions for both current and future HMI needs.

Request a trial version of CGI Studio:

https://cgistudio.at/hmi-design/

About Candera

Candera is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. Candera supports its customers via the embedded HMI design tools Candera Studio and CGI Studio, the HMI authoring tool UI Conductor, and through the provision of services in the areas of HMI development and embedded software.

Corporate site: https://cgistudio.at/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/canderacgistudio/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZyzdK8yFY52Ot-SvaGkM_A

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CanderaGmbh

Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/candera.gmbh/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/candera-cgistudio/

Candera exhibition of HMI design tool CGI Studio at 15th AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2023

Candera will be exhibiting at the 15th AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2023, a trade show featuring cutting edge automotive technology that will be held at Tokyo Big Sight between January 25th and 27th 2023.

15th AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2023:

https://www.automotiveworld.jp/tokyo/en-gb.html

AUTOMOTIVE WORLD is an event where the latest technology in the automobile industry is shown off. This includes advancements in autonomous driving, electric vehicles, automotive parts and manufacturing techniques, and vehicle weight reduction. Every year since it was founded Candera has shown off their latest innovations at AUTOMOTIVE WORLD.

At their booth Candera will be showing off demos for various platforms, all made with Candera’s in-house HMI design tool CGI Studio. There will be Candera employees present at the booth, ready to talk about CGI Studio use cases and how it can be used to meet consumer needs.

Event details:

Time: January 25th – January 27th 2023, 10:00 – 17:00

Place: Tokyo Big Sight, East Halls, 3-11-1 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0063

Closest Station: Tokyo Big Sight station (3 minute walk), Kokusai-Tenjijo station (7 minute walk)

Candera booth number: 45A-44

With over 20 years of experience in embedded software development, Candera offers a customizable product for our broad customer base. We work closely together with our customers and industry partners to provide solutions for both current and future HMI needs.

Request a trial version of CGI Studio:

https://cgistudio.at/hmi-design/

About Candera

Candera is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. Candera supports its customers via the embedded HMI design tools Candera Studio and CGI Studio, the HMI authoring tool UI Conductor, and through the provision of services in the areas of HMI development and embedded software.

Corporate site: https://cgistudio.at/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/canderacgistudio/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZyzdK8yFY52Ot-SvaGkM_A

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CanderaGmbh

Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/candera.gmbh/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/candera-cgistudio/