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rear-view mirrors annually for a period of five years. The value of this Cookeville production will represent an economic value of 460 million dollars (405 million euros), and will begin in the first quarter of 2018. The Cookeville plant, which is expected to be fully operational later this year, will be a leader in painting and injection processes thanks to the latest technology production equipment. Furthermore, Ficosa North America is currently recruiting 240 new workers for positions including project managers, technicians, engineers, operators and human resources specialists Cañellas highlights: “These projects will give the Cookeville plant a strong boost and not only reinforce the company’s business in North America but allow us to give our workers a better, safer future”. For its part, the Mexican facility of Salinas Victoria (Nuevo León) will produce a fourth order consisting of 80,000 rear- view mirrors per year for a period of 5 years. This contract

comes from an American OEM in the premium segment and is valued at a total of 50 million dollars (43.9 million euros).

Production will start in the last quarter of 2018. Consolidating its presence in North America

North America has become, after Europe, the most important market for this multinational corporation, which began operations in this region in 1994 and where it produces mirrors, gearboxes and brake systems. In the United States, Ficosa currently has a commercial office and development center, which employs 35 engineers, in Detroit (Michigan); a production centre in Shelbyville (Kentucky) and a new plant in Cookeville (Tennessee), which when at full capacity will replace the Crossville factory (Tennessee). The two Ficosa plants in Mexico, located in Salinas Victoria (Nuevo León) and Escobedo (Nuevo León), where the company also has an R&D plant, reinforce Ficosa’s activity in the North American region. control units (ECUs) to manage intricately featured applications, including brake-by- wire, automatic transmission, multi-mode lighting, parking assist, collision avoidance and many others. These ECUs are enabling “digital” control of each function of the car through sending commands over the communication network that interconnects the vehicle sub-systems. Moreover, more cars are becoming connected to the cloud enabling new functionalities like Over-The- Air (OTA) software updates, remote diagnostics, and the forthcoming V2X communication[1]. To safely support such trends, there is an acceleration in the deployment of robust hardware and software security platforms that are managed over the entire vehicle lifetime. ST is working with ETAS and ESCRYPT to deliver a cost- effective platform for sub-system developers to create ECUs that ensure a high level of protection for vehicle-owners’ privacy, OEMs’ intellectual property, ECU functional integrity, and secure communication among the car’s ECUs and the cloud. “This well-architected and easy-to-use development platform will deliver unprecedented convenience to customers in the form of a ready-made solution that combines the security know-how of ESCRYPT, ETAS, and ST,” said Luca

STMicroelectronics Joins Forces with Automotive Software

STMicroelectronics Joins Forces with Automotive Software Experts ETAS and ESCRYPT to Streamline Development of Secure Connected-Car Applications Combined competencies to offer a unique package for developing high-performance, safe, and secure automotive-embedded systems

End-to-end solution protects against malicious attacks on the car’s Electronic Control Units (ECU) and secures communication among ECUs and the cloud Easy-to-use AUTOSAR-compliant platform software addresses key time-to-market and standards-compliance challenges facing OEM and Tier-1 application developers Geneva, Stuttgart, and Bochum/13 Jun 2016STMicroelectronics(NYSE:STM),aglobalsemiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announced its collaboration with ETAS, a provider of innovative solutions for developing automotive embedded systems, and ESCRYPT, an ETAS subsidiary focused on security for embedded software, to deliver a complete platform comprising microcontrollers, software tools, and security solutions that accelerates development of new automotive control units for the connected-car age. Today’s auto designers rely more and more on electronic

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