Marine Manufacturing

Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 14, 2006 -- Siemens VDO will be offering boat builders, marine outfitters and engine manufacturers even greater flexibility in future. As successor to the Ocean Line series, the company is presenting its new generation of instruments, the Viewline series, at Mets (Marine Equipment Trade Show) in Amsterdam (November 14 -16, 2006). Conceived for all analogue engine monitoring and navigation sensor systems for motorboats and yachts, it is based on a completely new, standardized platform. In addition to the portfolio of standard engine monitoring and navigation instruments, this platform will, in future, offer boat builders and engine manufacturers a range of space-saving clusters and multi-function instruments. All Viewline instruments are easy to install and are available in a wide range of designs.

Marine Manufacturer Engineers Win SAE Arch T. Colwell Merit Award

WARRENDALE, Pa., May 15, 2006 - A team of marine engine manufacturer engineers has been selected to receive SAE International’s Arch T. Colwell Merit Award. They were presented the award at the SAE 2006 World Congress in Detroit, April 3-6.

This award, established in 1965, annually recognizes the authors of papers of outstanding technical or professional merit. Papers are judged primarily for their value as new contributions to existing knowledge of mobility engineering. The award was funded by the late Arch T. Colwell, who served SAE International in many capacities for nearly 50 years, including a term as President in 1941. Seven papers were selected from 2,677 published for SAE International meetings in 2004, including a paper authored by this team: “Predicting and Optimizing Two-Stroke Engine Performance Using Multidimensional CFD” (2004-32-0039).

Yangbing Zeng