Audi MMI 3G - a Success Story Continues
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The Company
Headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany, AUDI AG is one of the major manufacturers of luxury cars and is a 99%-owned subsidiary (as of 2004) of Volkswagen, the largest car manufacturer in Europe. Audi produces more than 960,000 cars per year with several renowned models in its line-up of A-series cars, which include the A4, A6, and A8.
The Challenge
In successful co-operation, Audi Electronics Venture GmbH (AEV) and EB have developed jointly the truly modular infotainment system for the Audi A5, A6 and A8 as well as the Audi Q5, which was introduced in fall 2008 to the public.
The Solution
Beginning of 2005 Audi started off their latest generation of the Multi-Media technology (MMI 3G) and sought a development partner who not only had a deep understanding of Automotive user interfaces but who would also manage the powerful project with many different country, feature and display variants and over 1400 different user dialogs.
The Benefit
Audi benefited from the customized system which at the same time features an extremely high reusability through modularity and usage of open standards, e.g. OSGi. Additionally, EB's integrated HMI development tool EB GUIDE with automatic code generation helped to manage complexity.