New jobs created as £1.5m vehicle testing facility opens

HORIBA MIRA, the advanced automotive engineering, research, development and testing organisation, has opened a £1.5m Vehicle Resilience (VRES) Technology Centre at its UK headquarters on the border of Leicestershire and Warwiclshire.

It is the world’s first engineering and test facility dedicated to a combined approach to automotive cybersecurity, functional safety and electromagnetic resilience and has created 10 jobs.

HORIBA MIRA says the VRES offering has been specifically developed in response to the emergence of increasingly electrified, connected and automated vehicles. As well as opening up many new opportunities, the organisation says these trends also bring new challenges for vehicle electronics, with the levels of complexity increasingly difficult to manage.

The VRES Technology Centre includes modelling and simulation capabilities and is supported by more than 14 test facilities for physical testing.

The development of VRES has created a number of new high value engineering jobs at HORIBA MIRA and this will continue to expand through 2019 and on into 2020.

Graeme Stewart, chief technical officer at HORIBA MIRA, said: “By combining automotive cybersecurity, electromagnetic resilience and functional safety for the first time, HORIBA MIRA will deliver advanced engineering solutions in line with the increasing complexity of electrified, connected and automated vehicles, to address the growing and evolving risks to vehicle safety, security and functionality.

“Our customers can now benefit from a creative and talented team of over 85 engineers, analysts and specialists, combined with state-of-the-art equipment and a cutting-edge cluster of facilities to deliver world-class automotive services and solutions.”

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