Ride and Handling | Load Analysis | Performance Tuning
Ride and Handling
Automotive Assembly Plant Quality Control
Closure concerns can severely impact vehicle things gone wrong (TGW) and warranty. To prevent this, assembly plants use plant quality indicators to identify and correct concerns before they reach the customer. Effective closure indicators must completely characterize the system as the customer experiences it. Once a concern is found, pertinent data must be available to identify the root cause. Ideally, a device that requires very little training and took a minimum of time and effort to acquire the data to allow routine use with little training.
Load Analysis
Product Development
Automotive manufacturers and their suppliers strive to achieve a consistent look, feel, and sound in closures across all vehicles in a brand. To reach this goal closure measurements are required in several phases of the product development process.
Product Development: Benchmarking and Target setting
Benchmarking is done early in the product development cycle to help set engineering targets. In a typical benchmarking study, several competitive vehicles are obtained and various measurements are done to gage the performance. From the benchmarking data the appropriate levels for targets can be determined. Closure measurement systems used in benchmarking must quickly provide comprehensive data with no teardown of the vehicle.
Performance Tuning
Product Development
Automotive manufacturers and their suppliers strive to achieve a consistent look, feel, and sound in closures across all vehicles in a brand. To reach this goal closure measurements are required in several phases of the product development process.
Product Development: Benchmarking and Target setting
Benchmarking is done early in the product development cycle to help set engineering targets. In a typical benchmarking study, several competitive vehicles are obtained and various measurements are done to gage the performance. From the benchmarking data the appropriate levels for targets can be determined. Closure measurement systems used in benchmarking must quickly provide comprehensive data with no teardown of the vehicle.