Company Offers Virtual Reality Experience of Its Journey to Produce the Lightest Steel Wheel KÖNIGSWINTER, Germany-Saturday 1 September 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Maxion Wheels, the world’s largest manufacturer of wheels, announced today its participation in the 67th IAA Commercial Vehicles exhibition in Hanover, Germany. From Sept. 20 – 27, 2018, Maxion Wheels will display both its application-diverse truck wheel product portfolio, as well as present several of its latest innovation wheels designed to tackle the industry’s challenges of fuel efficiency, connectivity and new mobility in Hall 26 / Stand A42. In addition to its product displays, Maxion Wheels will offer a virtual reality show providing guests with a sensory, interactive 3D digital experience of its journey to significantly reduce weight from its steel wheels. “IAA Commercial Vehicles is such an important show for Maxion Wheels; not only do we get to showcase our commercial vehicle wheel expertise, we eve ... Read more »

Investment Enables Rapid Development of Thermal-Based Machine Learning Capabilities and Tools WILSONVILLE, Ore. & SINGAPORE-Tuesday 28 August 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) and CVEDIA PTE. Ltd., Inc. announced today that FLIR has made a strategic investment in CVEDIA, developers of machine learning applications that are used to efficiently enable sensor systems with artificial intelligence. CVEDIA’s SynCity simulator software tool provides ultra-realistic, multi-modal, digital environments for autonomous system OEMs and related sensor makers to train their systems in a much faster, safer, and more affordable manner than by utilizing traditional data collection techniques. CVEDIA has developed SynCity to feature real-world physics; simulate a multitude of lighting and environmental conditions; and render objects such as people, animals, and automobiles in a manner that artificial intelligence systems interpret them as real and lifelike. This ... Read more »