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Siemens VDO was acquired by Continental AG on 5.12.2007 and is no longer part of Siemens AG.
In this section you can download press releases regarding the DTCO. If you are interested in press images related to it, you can download them from the image database.
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Continental is celebrating a production milestone: On January 17, 2008, at the Villingen-Schwenningen plant, the one millionth VDO DTCO 1381 digital tachograph came off the production line. The device records driving and rest times electronically, in mass memory and on a chip card. At the same time, the company has also put together a comprehensive service package for all target groups that utilize the device.
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Siemens VDO makes it easier for operators of small fleets and individual drivers to convert to the digital tachograph (DTCO). To enable them to fulfill their legal obligation to store tachograph data, the company has developed TIS-Compact plus – an archiving solution that is as straightforward as it is inexpensive – especially for these customers, who require almost no IT knowledge to use it. Fleet operators who would like to use DTCO data for fleet management can still obtain the two programs TIS-Web and TIS-Office from the supplier. Users of the entry-level solution TIS-Compact plus can upgrade at any time and thus start more professional data management.
Even before the first anniversary of the introduction date of the new system for the recording of driving and rest times, a first reason to celebrate is emerging: Already today, about 500,000 digital tachographs (DTCO) from Siemens VDO are on the road in European trucks and busses. The new tracking device is mandatory for all trucks and transporters with a maximum permissible weight of over 3.5 tons or busses with more than eight seats which were newly registered after 1 May 2006. The system was introduced by the European Union in order to increase security against interference and manipulation. Besides the hardware, Siemens VDO offers a comprehensive service package, periphery devices and software to make it easier for users to handle the new technology.
Siemens VDO Automotive rewards loyality to the original and therefore relaunches its tried-and-tested "3+1" campaign. Anyone who buys three packs of 100 original Siemens VDO diagram charts or three rolls of tachograph printer paper and thus covers his annual requirements will receive a small cool bag as a bonus. The tachograph documents are available at more than 10,000 sales points worldwide. Potential customers can find their nearest Siemens VDO partner under www.siemensvdo.com/dtco. The marketing offer will run till summer and applies to the whole of Europe and the most important markets around the world.
Since the introduction of digital tachographs, more and more vehicle fleets have been confronted with analysing and archiving electronic data. Siemens VDO, the tachograph market leader, will have a series of new additional download solutions on show at the Automechanika 2006 in Frankfurt: an innovative download terminal, the Siemens VDO DTCO workshop download service and TIS Compact. With these additional systems, both drivers and managers of all sizes of fleets can now comply with their legal obligations regarding electronic data storage more easily. This means that in the future, the vehicle will not even need to be physically present at the head office or even in the same country.
Siemens VDO is introducing a new training package, helping the commercial vehicles sector to prepare for the advent of digital tachographs (DTCO). Some 10 million HGV drivers, 400,000 fleet operators, 30,000 workshop employees and more than 600,000 enforcement officers throughout Europe can take advantage of the new package to learn about electronic data registration and evaluation of speed, driving times and rest periods before the planned introduction of the DTCO in August 2005. A special range of courses tailored to each of the specific target groups is combined with detailed accompanying texts to allow the entire sector to prepare quickly, effectively and easily for the impending switch to the new system. This CBT (Computer-Based Training) package is a further component of the comprehensive range of services offered by Siemens VDO to coincide with the launch of the digital tachograph.
Siemens VDO brings the transport sector right up to date: In time for the launch of the digital tachograph, the market leader in devices that record driving and rest periods is presenting a multilingual information platform on the web. Whatever their professional needs, visitors to www.vdo.com/dtco will be able to find comprehensive information on digital tachograph (DTCO) systems and requirements, as well as the products and training offered by Siemens VDO.
The advent of the digital tachograph (DTCO) means the step to fleet management is now easier and smaller. With driving and rest-period data now stored in electronic format, it will prove much easier to analyse. For this reason, Siemens VDO is opening up the most important records stored in the digital tachograph's mass memory and driver chip cards to fleet managers. The new download key, for which a patent registration has already been submitted, allows all this data to be transferred easily from the cab to the fleet management computers in head office. With its two analysis solutions TIS-Web and TIS-Office, Siemens VDO provides fleet operators with effective support in evaluating their data.
With the introduction of digital tachographs, Siemens VDO is preparing its service network for the implementation of the new digital technology. The company offers its new KIPAS 2.0 workshop software to its around 10,000 European service partners, as well as introduces further developments in its testing computers and diagnosis systems for the installation, calibration and maintenance of the new digital tachograph. All systems have been tailored for the Siemens VDO-developed DTCO 1381.
The DTCO 1381 digital tachograph from Siemens VDO marks the farewell to the diagram chart With its DTCO 1381 digital tachograph device, Siemens VDO is saying goodbye to the diagram chart. The unit, which fits into a DIN slot in HGVs and commercial vehicles with maximum permitted weight of over 3.5 tons or buses with more than 8 passenger seats, has been developed in accordance with the requirements stipulated in Annex 1 B of Regulation (EEC) 3821/85. This means it complies with all the demands to come into force in the European Union in terms of recording driving and rest periods. Moreover, Siemens VDO has also integrated the first additional functions into the DTCO 1381. To coincide with the system switchover, Siemens VDO has compiled a package of services that will ease the transition from diagram charts to chip cards for workshops, drivers, fleet operators and enforcement agencies alike.
