A cooperation between Kostal and YFAI is intended to synergetically combine the HMI and interior technology areas in order to offer market-ready solutions for intelligent surfaces in the short term and, at the same time, to reduce organisational complexities for OEM customers. Instead of electronic modules that are installed in the vehicle interior and then covered, the partners are developing new products from a single source.
CHANGES IN VEHICLE INTERIORS
Over the next 10 years, automobile interiors will change more than in the previous five decades. A paradigm change is taking place from self-driving and use of time to overcome distances, to a partially or fully automated driving experience. Electrified drive concepts also create flexibility in the interiors of future vehicle generations, both for the design of individual mobility as well as for implementation of innovative shared mobility concepts. Though in future, vehicles and passengers will also be able to remain in constant contact with the digital world.
Emotional ties to the vehicle will be governed more by passengers’ experience during its use than by the vehicle as an object in itself. This so-called user experience includes all aspects of the user’s interaction with the vehicle as a product.
INITIAL SITUATION
Yanfeng Automotive Interiors (YFAI) and Kostal have set themselves the goal of further developing vehicle interior surfaces, which up to now had a purely decorative character, into seamlessly integrated mechatronic user interfaces. These intelligent surfaces or smart surfaces provide new flexibility for the design of automotive experience and can be adapted to OEM-specific control concepts.
Understanding of the interaction of functionality, appearance, feel, structure, electronics and software as well as seamless integration of interior surfaces and personalised human-machine interfaces pave the way for the automobile interior experience of the future. Responding to this trend, YFAI and Kostal launched a strategic partnership in 2016 [1]. Collaboration by complementary suppliers is a proven accelerator of research and development as well as for the production engineering implementation of innovative solutions in the automotive industry.
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