Foreword

Engineered in India

Management

Innovate or Die

The article will examine some of these trends and issues every organisation must consider when dealing with the topic of innovation.

Collaboration Success:

What’s the secret ingredient?

How do we get companies to work together in this type of environment? It’s never an easy task and it really starts with all the players in the game accepting the challenge and becoming part of the solution rather than pointing fingers.

On-Demand Solutions

For better supply chain management

With many business, cultural and technical challenges in the Asian Automotive market, implementing supply chain on-demand solutions have proven successful.

Increased China Automotive Recalls

When Bad News Is Actually Good News

The fact that automotive recalls are finally starting to pick up
in China is actually a sign.

Information Technology

Breaking Down Barriers to Secure Collaboration

How On-demand collaborative services will revolutionise the automotive industry?

Changing market dynamics, organisational relationships and the rise of a "socially-networked" workforce have created significant opportunities and challenges for today's automotive industry.

Engineering Services Outsourcing - Interviews

Advantage India

The engineering sector is undergoing a phenomenal transformation in India.

A Great Industry in the Making

Indian companies will have to provide complete end-to-end support – from "Design to Prototyping and Manufacture"

Materials

The Mixed Material Concept of the New BMW X5

The article describes requirements for crash-relevant components, forming manufacturing methods such as cold and hot forming, as well as possible solutions concerning optimisation of component properties and manufacturing systems.

BehrOxal®

Behr’s Ecologically Sustainable Coating Technology

BehrOxal® process offers a number of benefits when compared with yellow chromate coating process.

Fineblanking

More than just an alternative manufacturing technique

Combined fineblanking and forming operations rationalise series production of functional sheet metal parts

Engine and Chassis

Emerging Battery Technologies

Powering the Future Drivetrain

We describe some of the technologies, i.e. Li-based batteries that are anticipated to enable hybrid, or fully-electric drivetrains.

The Fiat Multi Air Technology

A Step towards high efficiency SI engines

The main technological challenge for the SI engine is to improve drastically fuel economy / CO2 emissions and fun to drive, with add-on cost equal or lower to what necessary for emissions control in diesel.

RPSTFS

Simplifying vehicle benchmarking

The technique presented is a Vehicle Benchmarking tool used to characterise and synthesize in one single curve the vehicle powertrain structure-borne noise attenuation performance.

Internal Combustion Engine, Hybrid and Fuel Cell

Synergy instead of competition

The article will show the benefits of a combination of ICE, hybrid and fuel cell technology regarding efficiency, comfort and electric driving range, independent from battery capacity.

Innovative Part-time AWD Powertrain

For High Performance Vehicle

The potentialities shown by controlled differentials is making the automotive industry to explore this field. While Vehicle Dynamic Control systems can only guarantee a safe behaviour at limit, a controlled differential can also increase the handling performance.

Design and Testing

Car Design

Making a difference

Car Design today is at the beginning of a very exciting new era. We are living in a moment where design really begins to matter again.

New Hierarchical Optimisation Technique

For vehicle body structure

Nissan has proposed a new hierarchical technique to design the optimal vehicle body structure in the initial phase of development where we apply topology optimisation followed by shape optimisation based on the traction method. This method could enable us to design a totally new and innovative body structure.

Electrical and Electronics

More-Electric Technologies

Environmentally Friendlier Vehicles

'More-electric' technology developments are not only facilitating a wide range of advanced concepts related to engines and propulsion systems but are also helping to improve safety, comfort and driveability, which are important aspects in an increasingly competitive market.

Converge or Divergence?

Richard Chung talks about the fast-evolving electronic convergence of the future and how the automotive companies can keep up with the trend.

India’s Automotive Electronics Market

Today and a decade from now

Providing electronics solutions to the Indian market is both an opportunity and a challenge.

Components and Ancillaries

Auto Components Sourcing

Destination India

Facing severe pressure to improve their bottom lines, auto makers in the developed markets are looking at India for their sourcing requirements

Production and Manufacturing

Vehicle Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH)

Focus on Brake System NVH

The purpose of this article is to increase the awareness level and explore ideas that can lead to the better understanding of how we can manage the vehicle NVH effectively without compromising cost effectiveness.

Li-Ion Batteries for Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Opportunities and Challenges

Due to their higher specific energy, Li-Ion batteries have taken over the majority of the portable rechargeable battery market and are being considered for application in hybrid vehicles.

Safety Systems Development

The Asia-Pacific Story

Safety Systems which were once exclusive features of the high-end cars, are now de rigueur in almost all vehicles sold in the Asia Pacific region.

Synthetic Alcohol

Basis for the future energy economy

A pragmatic option to reduce in-use CO2 output from automotive sources while ensuring cost-effectiveness and system robustness.