Technology in detail:
Siemens VDO Viewline – Instrumentation for any application
Regensburg, April 23, 2007
Analog instruments will continue to dominate the market in the future, despite digitalization. The growing needs of emerging markets especially, and the increasing cost pressure faced by manufacturers of engines, special vehicles used in agriculture, forestry, and construction, industrial machines, motorboats, and yachts ensure that analog instruments remain steadily in demand. Siemens VDO is responding to this tendency with its new Viewline instrument platform, which was also developed for the future of analogue instrumentation.
Viewline, the new standard platform from Siemens VDO, will gradually replace all of the company’s previous analog series for marine and industrial applications. In doing so, the new line addresses a segment that will still account for a majority of instrumentation over the next five to ten years. While the design of the new instruments can be varied very flexibly, the introduction of the new platform leads to extensive standardization in the casing of the instrument and thus also offers advantages for the vehicle or boat manufacturer.
All the instruments have precise measuring mechanisms. A new generic indicator that can process and display widely varied sensor signals now offers the vehicle manufacturer greater flexibility. In addition, the instruments measuring 52 millimeters in diameter come standard with a built-in warning LED. At the request of the vehicle manufacturer, the larger instruments, measuring 85 or 110 millimeters, can accommodate up to five LEDs, which can be controlled separately as warning or indicator lights. The 85- and 110-millimeter instruments also make it possible for manufacturers of special vehicles and engines to combine dial scales and digital displays from two separate incoming signal ports. In the future, Siemens VDO will offer manufacturers the new instruments with diameters of 110 millimeters not only as standard displays for engine revolutions and speed, but also, according to customer wishes, as multi-function instruments with up to four analog displays housed in a single unit.
Siemens VDO has built the Viewline instruments to be extremely rugged, tough enough to withstand the severe conditions they will face in the construction industry or in agriculture and forestry. Their painstaking design and the high-quality materials used guarantee that the casings will not corrode or fall victim to salt water, for example, that no water or dust can penetrate into the inside of the instruments, and that the instruments can easily withstand strong temperature fluctuations, shocks, and vibrations.
All Viewline instruments have been developed as “plug & play” solutions and are quick and easy to install, thanks to their central connector plug. Because the new instruments are designed for either flush or panel mounting and Siemens VDO offers several dozen design variants, the Viewline series can be integrated perfectly into any cockpit.
Further information for readers and end customers is available at: http://www.siemensvdo.com/contactus
The Group Siemens VDO Automotive, based in Regensburg, Germany and owned by Siemens AG, is one of the leading automotive suppliers of electronics and mechatronics worldwide and enables, with its products, individual mobility and efficient goods transportation via roads. A development partner to the automotive industry, the Group produces automotive electronics and mechatronics focusing on lower emissions, greater safety and driving convenience, and better provision of information to the driver as well as better networking between the driver and the outside world. In the 2006 fiscal year, which ended on September 30, 2006, Siemens VDO posted a sales volume of over 10 billion euros and achieved a result of 669 million euros calculated on the basis of the U.S. GAAP.
Reference Number: SV 200704.009 en
