Business Segments

Personnel

The number of employees in the Automotive Business Segment grew by 186 employees in 2014. At the end of 2014, EB employed 1,324 professionals in Germany, Austria, Finland, France, Romania, United States, China and Japan in the Automotive Business Segment and the average age of the personnel was 36. R&D engineers constituted clearly the largest proportion of the personnel.

The number of employees increased mainly in Germany with over 90 employees and also in Romania and the USA and Finland, where EB established a new automotive software site in Oulu in September 2014. At the end of 2014 EB Automotive Oulu employed 21 persons. Expanding its operations in Oulu, Finland, offers the company an opportunity to further grow its software engineering capacity for current and future needs.

EBīs core competences in the Automotive Business Segment are automotive-grade embedded software in Electronic Control Units (ECU), Human Machine Interface (HMI), infotainment solutions, navigation, driver assistance, Functional Safety, and software integration.

The year 2014 started with a new organization structure in place to strengthen the organizationīs capabilities in the continuing business growth and to promote innovations. The ASWgoesSpice program began its rollout in 2014. It aims at establishing processes and tools that strengthen EBīs capabilities to comply internationally with Automotive Spice Level 3 and requested Functional Safety standards. Renewing the processes affects the way of working of each employee of the Automotive Business Segment.

EB invested in new programs of people development and its own training academy. As part of the ASWgoesSpice program the project management capabilities were strengthened through the Lean Development Model and adapting the agile methods to achieve better quality and higher productivity. Investments into management and leadership competencies were continued by enhancing the supervisory and communication skills as well as many more. Key management was offered an opportunity to participate in a potential analysis aiming at evaluating of personal strengths and weaknesses in order to make a personal development plan.

EB continued to further cooperate with universities and schools and attended in 25 job fairs to grow the awareness of the company among students and find new talents.