ITEC and Candera partner to introduce Candera’s high-end, non-coding HMI solutions to fast growing new market

 

Linz, Austria and Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 15, 2023 — Candera Gmbh in Linz, Austria, is excited to announce a new cooperation with ITEC Ltd. of Tel-Aviv, Israel, to introduce their HMI creation software to the Israeli market. Yoram Sacagiu, VP Sales and Marketing at ITEC, has already presented Candera at a local trade show.

Human Machine Interface (HMI) design tool and services provider Candera GmbH has expanded business activities into Israel, to meet regional demands. The increasing sales of premium products with high-end graphical GUIs in the region as well as growing customer preference for such HMI features led the way to the decision. Israel as a market is projected to hold the fastest growth in the region for HMIs.

Figure 1: ITEC and Candera joining new partnership

 

Known to make HMI creation for users without coding skills easy, Candera has become a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. By equipping more than 50 million cars to date, Candera has been providing cutting-edge HMI tools for one of the most demanding industries in the world. Their tools contain components for graphics, text, data binding, asset handling and more.

 

Now the experienced provider of complex, high-end automotive HMI tools takes the next step, opening up to new markets (e.g. Industrial, Whitegoods, Marine, Medical, or Commercial) with their effective non-coding and WYSIWYG approach: With Candera, all users, including those with low or even no coding skills at all, can easily create fully functioning, brilliant HMIs – opening the door to faster, more efficient HMI creation.

 

Candera offers two products, Candera Studio and CGI Studio. To bring them into the promising HMI market in Israel, Candera now cooperates with ITEC Ltd..

 

 

ITEC LTD.

ITEC Ltd. is an Israeli leading supplier of solutions and services for a wide range of professional industries, as well as for the Education market. For over 30 years, ITEC is at the forefront of Israel’s fast developing electronics industry, representing international leading manufacturers of software and hardware solutions.

 

“We are happy to add Candera products to our line of Embedded development tools solutions. Adding Candera’s HMI solutions will help our customers create displays fast with no coding skills needed. This collaboration will enhance ITEC’s offering to the local Embedded industry.” says Yoram Sacagiu, VP Sales and Marketing of ITEC.

Figure 2: Yoram Sacagiu, Vice President Sales & Marketing at ITEC

 

  

ITEC’s Development Tools

ITEC provides software and hardware solutions for Embedded Systems and for safety critical applications. Their broad range of advanced technology products cover the full spectrum of the design process, from architectural model-based design up to on board testing. The range of tools include – Real Time Operating Systems, JTAG Debuggers, Model Based design tools, Automatic Code generators, verification and validation tools, timing analysers, and prototype design boards.

Figure 3: ITEC website           

 

ITEC’s Yoram Sacagiu has already taken first steps on the ground presenting Candera during the MDI Expo in March, the annual gathering of the Israeli medical devices and digital healthcare community.

Figure 4: Yoram Sacagiu presenting Candera for the first time in Israel during the MDI Expo on March 23rd

 

For more information, please contact ITEC: https://itec.co.il/
ITEC: 38th HaBarzel St., Ramat Hachayal / Tel-Aviv 6971054 / Tel: +972-3-6491202 / Email: info@itec.co.il

 

Request a trial version of Candera Studio: https://canderastudio.com/en/trial/

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

 

Learn more about Candera and their products:

Website: https://www.candera.eu

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

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CanderaGmbh

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

 

About Candera

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

• Candera’s powerful and user-friendly HMI software CGI Studio is an ideal tool to create high performance 2D and 3D graphical user interfaces for the STM32MP1 – providing industries’ fastest GUI creation workflow.

 

October 5, 2021 – Linz, Austria / Geneva, Switzerland – Candera, a leading provider of HMI design tools announces its participation in STMicroelectronics Partner Marketing Program to collaboratively promote the HMI design tool CGI Studio as a powerful resource for designing with the MPU STM32MP1.

Candera GmbH, a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers, is joining the ST Partner Program to offer its Human Machine Interface (HMI) technology for long-lived, demanding industrial applications to developers using the STM32MP1 with a strong assurance of effectiveness from ST.

 

The STM32MP1 microprocessor series is part of the STM32 family and comes with ST’s rolling 10-year longevity commitment that provides designers, product managers and procurement teams the assurance that components will remain available throughout the lifecycle of their design. Its dual Cortex®- A7 core implementation provides access to open-source operating systems (Linux/Android) and offers high-performance processing, while an integrated Cortex-M4 core leverages the STM32 MCU ecosystem and is dedicated to real-time processing and low-power tasks. In addition, the STM32MP1 embeds a 3D Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) supporting OpenGL® ES 2.0 API and native support for Linux and various application frameworks, including Android to enable Human Machine Interface (HMI) development.

Candera is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. It supports its customers with CGI Studio, a scalable and hardware independent HMI design software. CGI Studio is well-known for its user-friendly interface and the high-performance representation of 2D / 3D display elements and animations. Furthermore, it comes with ready-to-use HMI controls, an AI assisted Smart Importer and integrated state machines.

 

As an ST Partner Program member, Candera’s scalable and hardware-independent software solution CGI Studio for easy HMI creation will be promoted in the program. “The ST Partner Program is a high-value offering that has exceeded the expectations of our Customers and Partners helping customers’ design teams access strong supplemental skills, tools, and resources that meet design time-to-market challenges across the full ecosystem of products and services while easily integrating ST devices in their projects,” said Alessandro Maloberti, Partner Ecosystem Director, STMicroelectronics. “By selecting, qualifying, and certifying ST Authorized Partners, customers know that the partners they engage have the expertise to accelerate their design and development activities and ensure they ship the most robust and efficient products and services to market.”

 

Reinhard Füricht, CEO of Candera, also appreciates the cooperation with STMicroelectronics: “We have been collaborating with ST successfully over the past years”, says Reinhard. “We are happy to be part of the ST Partner Program Community and to add our value to the excellent STM31MP1 MPUs, which are in line with our own focus on extending Candera’s non-automotive business“.

 

About Candera

Candera, is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. It supports its customers with the 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 America Inc. are part of KAGA FEI Co., Ltd. , situated in Yokohama / Japan.

 

About STMicroelectronics
At ST, we are 46,000 creators and makers of semiconductor technologies mastering the semiconductor supply chain with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. An independent device manufacturer, we work with more than 100,000 customers and thousands of partners to design and build products, solutions, and ecosystems that address their challenges and opportunities, and the need to support a more sustainable world. Our technologies enable smarter mobility, more efficient power and energy management, and the wide-scale deployment of the Internet of Things and 5G technology. Further information can be found at www.st.com.

 

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 America Inc. are part of KAGA FEI Co., Ltd., situated in Yokohama / Japan.