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Appendix C: Automative Industry Workshop
Appendix C: Automative Industry Workshop
Pages 97-101
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NEW MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT: INCENTIVES AND BARRIERS Automotive products are mature but will require innovative alternative materials to continue to compete in the global marketplace, and equally important, to meet future societal and regulatory demands. The industry established a record of responding to these driving forces during the past two decades.
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Discussion: Strategies for Improving Linkages in the Automotive Industry 57 percent. The use of stainless steel, magnesium, powder-metal parts, zinccoated body sheet, ceramic honeycombs and sensors, Pt-Rh three-way catalysts, micromachined silicon capacitive pressure sensors, and cathodic electrocoating has also increased.
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product development cycle that provides regular, but still somewhat limited, opportunities for the insertion of new technologies a large, established capital equipment base that is renewed only periodically, which tends to inhibit the adoption of new technologies · a large existing base of knowledge in conventional materials that tends to promote the status quo · difficulty in predicting the perceived value of a new technology through cost/benefit analyses · a risk-averse design community that is leery of introducing new concepts · a rigid purchasing system that is skeptical of suppliers who do not have a track record of supplying high-quality parts in high volume IMPROVING LINKAGES The workshop participants considered many sources of new materials technology, including universities, government laboratories, joint projects with government support (e.g., cooperative research and development agreements [CRADAsi, Advanced Technology Program [ATP] initiatives)
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Parts Suppliers Many workshop participants felt that the linkages between auto manufacturers and parts suppliers are very strong and, probably, the most important links. OEMs urge their lower tier suppliers to conduct R&D, either on incremental improvements to existing products or on riskier new concepts.
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Workshop participants identified the following factors as controlling the decision to implement a new materials technology in the automotive industry: . cost compared to the existing part or subassembly, including materials, processing, tooling and facilities, and offsets for benefits realized in other subsystems · high-volume manufacturing process capability · assurance that the quality, reliability, and durability will be greater than or equal to the existing system · availability of a supplier infrastructure that can meet the standards of automotive purchasing organizations Workshop participants agreed that only cost-effective and well proven concepts will be integrated into vehicle programs.
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