Automotive Lightweight Interiors: Cost Effective Material Application & Design 2015

C o s t E f f e c t i v e M a t e r i a l A p p l i c a t i o n & D e s i g n

The First Interior Focused Automotive Lightweight Initiative

Benchmarking Lightweight Material Applications,Manufacturing & Design Processes To

Cost-Effectively Reduce The WeightOf Vehicle InteriorsIncluding Seating, Electronics, NVH andOther Interior Structures

Key Issues To Be Discussed Include:

27th-28th January 2016 | Munich | Germany

Expert Speaker Panel Includes:

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• OEM STRATEGIES: How OEMs Are Balancing Costs, Carbon

Emissions And Customer Expectations To Forge A Successful

Interior Lightweighting Strategy

• COST-DRIVEN SUPPLY CHAINS: Developing Partnership

Strategies Between OEMs And Each Supplier Tier To Reduce Cost

And Time For Lightweight Design Implementation

• PLASTICS: Identifying Material And Moulding Innovations

To Reduce The Weight And Cost Of Producing Lightweight

Plastic Parts

• LIGHTWEIGHT SEATING: Showcasing Cost Effective Lightweight

Materials For Frames And Foams For Seating

• LIGHTWEIGHTING OF ELECTRONIC PARTS: Assessing Design

And Material Selection Strategies To Reduce Electronic Weight

• NOISE REDUCTION VS LIGHTWEIGHTING: Determining

Lightweight Designs And Materials That Can Be Applied For Noise

Reduction Functions

Register By Friday30th October 2015

Ian Thompson Director of Innovation Maserati

Alvise Marangoni Body & Trim Department Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.

Roberto Baccaglini Principal Engineer Seating Responsible McLaren Automotive Ltd.

Johad Ellis Automotive Interior Design KIA Motors America

Dr. - Ing Yves Klett Team Leader - Sandwich Technology Group Institute of Aircraft Design- University Stuttgart

Stuart Lamenski Senior Lecturer on Stress Analysis Coventry University

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Daniela Bohlinger Head of Sustainable Design BMW Group



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EU emission regulations has forced the automotive industry to adopt lightweighting

strategies through material and design. There has been an industry focus on body in

white lightweighting through the use of innovative materials, however, with manufacturing

costs proving difficult to swallow, OEMs are exploring other options to reduce weight and

meet CO2 emission requirements.

With this in mind, the Automotive Lightweight Interiors Congress has been engineered

to explore the opportunities for lightweighting by adopting material and design strategies

within the interior components. With emerging consumer trends such as infotainment,

noise reduction, luxury textiles and electronic air conditioning, interior lightweighting

strategies face the challenge of meeting customer expectations and safety standards

whilst being financially viable.

VENUE INFORMATIONHilton Munich Park Hotel Am Tucherpark 7, 80538 Munich, Germany

Phone Number: +49-89-38450

With EU emission regulations accelerating the adoption of lightweight materials …

the industry must understand the business case for intergrating new designs to ensure regulations, industry standards, customer expectations and budgets are met. The balance of these four requirements is a difficult target to strike, however, with new innovative technologies, materials and applications being discovered throughout the world the industry is growing closer to a new lightweight vehicle generation.

…this 2 day congress will bring together OEMs, Tier 1’s, leading researchers and material suppliers to explore and understand the opportunities that are commercially available now and what options the future may hold.

THE ONLY LIGHTWEIGHTING INTERIORS FOCUSED EVENT: The Automotive Lightweight Interiors Congress is the only event to focus specifically on lightweighting strategies for automotive interiors

CONSUMER TRENDS VS COST: The summit will discuss lightweighting strategies in a commercially viable light, looking at solutions that can meet consumer demand as well as be cost effective for production volumes

APPLICATION SPECIFIC: Presentations will focus on how to apply new lightweight materials and designs to capitalize on weight reduction innovations in specific sections of the vehicle

SAFETY CONSIDERATE: With industry standards and safety regulations to adhere too, each lightweight solution will be fully investigated for crash performance to ensure necessary benchmarks are met

Register By Friday30th October 2015

BREAKFAST BRIEFING: CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS

8.30 Mapping Customer Trends Across Aesthetics,

Functionality And Comfort To Design Interiors That

Exceed Future Expectations

This Discussion Will Outline Customer Expectations Today And In The Near Future, To Give An Understanding Of The Limitations And Scope For Lightweighting Strategies

8.50 Question & Answer Session

9.00 Chair’s Opening Remarks

LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIAL STRATEGY

Leveraging Best Practice Material, Supply Chain And

Customer Strategies To Reduce The Cost Of Adopting

Lightweight Materials Across Vehicle Interiors

OPENING KEYNOTE

9.10 Sustainable Design - Intelligent Lightweight

Needs A Holistic Approach

Daniela Bohlinger, Head of Sustainable Design, BMW Group


LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN STRATEGIES

9.50 Revealing The Most Effective Strategies Within

The Design Stage That Can Reduce Weight Whilst

Meeting Customer Expectation

Johad Ellis, Automotive Interior Designer, Kia Motor Company


PLASTICS: DASHBOARD & CENTRAL CONSOLE

Outlining The Latest Material Properties, Injection Moulding

Techniques And Supply Chain Strategies To Reduce The

Weight Of Plastics And Composites

PLASTICS: RECENT MATERIAL ADVANCES

10.30 Reviewing Additives And Fillers To Reduce The

Cost Of Producing Low-Weight, High-Performance

Plastics For Dashboards And Central Consoles

• Outlining the costs and performance of carbon and glass fibres to produce high-strength composites

• Assessing the performance and weight of traditional and emerging polypropylenes to identify new lightweight opportunities

• Benchmarking additives and fillers available to further reduce the weight of equally-performing plastics

• Assessing the perceived quality of plastics to ensure material selections meet customer expectations


11.10 Morning Refreshments In The Exhibition Showcase Area

PLASTICS: INJECTION MOULDING

11.30 Reviewing Injection Moulding Techniques To

Produce Decorative Plastic Components That Meet

Cost, Performance And Aesthetic Needs

• Illustrating the best injection moulding techniques for plastic composites to produce parts with strength integrity

• Understanding the impacts of the injection moulding process on material properties to ensure industry standards are met whilst remaining lightweight

• Revealing moulding techniques that can reduce air bubbles during production to manufacture a perfect finish for trim components

• Illustrating the best methods for producing a glossy trim finish to meet consumer expectations

• Demonstrating moulding practices that ensure UV resistant functionality in the finished trim component


SEATING: FOAM DESIGN

3.10 Identifying An Optimal Balance Between

Thickness & Density Of Seating Foams To Meet

Comfort, Cost & Weight Expectations

• Quantifying the most weight effective density and seat

thickness combination to maintain comfort and reduce

weight

• Mapping expected firmness in different markets to

identify the best foam strategies to meet customer

expectations

• Analysing the adoption of new features and technologies

such as active push and pad to calculate the future need

for foam functions

• Understanding additive methods such as elastics,

mousses and organic sheets to determine structure

lightweighting strategies

Panelist: Elena Mandosso, Seat development, Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A


3.50 Afternoon Refreshments In The Exhibition Showcase Area

SEATING: SUPPLY CHAIN

4.20 Developing Supply Chain Partnerships That

Can Enable The Production Of Low-Cost And High-

Performance Seating

• Quantifying the variations of materials within seats to

determine the number of material suppliers required for

manufacturing

• Revealing strategies to communicate component

information across the supply chain to ensure

successful lightweight adoption

• Providing an overview of the frame manufacturing

supply chain to highlight key collaborations that can

reduce execution time

• Illustrating supply chain communications strategies that

have provided efficient results through partnerships

Ian Thompson, Director of Innovation, Maserati


SEATING: SAFETY STANDARDS

5.00 Utilising Simulation And Design Practices To

Develop Lighter Seats While Complying With Safety

Regulations

• Assessing seating standards for rear and front crash

impact tests to highlight necessary design requirements

• Determining the performance levels of each popular

lightweight material in crash impact tests to reveal

materials applicable for more stringent markets

• Considering airbag integration with material selection

to reveal unsuitable materials for certain markets and

designs

• Analysing how material changes and mixtures can effect

the seat geometry to take into consideration further

functional tests that need to be implemented to ensure

standards are met


5.40 Chair’s Closing Remarks

5.50 - 6.50 Networking Drinks Reception In The

Exhibition Showcase Area

How OEMs Are Adopting Robust Supply Chains, New Materials And Manufacturing Processes To Reduce Interior Weight And Exceed Customer Expectations

Day 1Wednesday 27th January 2016


PANEL: PLASTICS SUPPLY CHAIN

12.10 Forging OEM, Material And Moulding

Equipment Supplier Partnerships To Reduce The Cost

Of Adopting Emerging Plastics

• Providing an overview of the plastics supply chain to identify the weakest link: Where Can Costs Most Easily Be Saved?

• Evaluating the business case for in house manufacturing against supplier manufactured plastic parts to identify the most cost effective business model

• Assessing the flexibility for changes in design and material selection within the supply chain to ensure programs can adapt to new technology and consumer trends

• Developing an efficient communication strategy to ensure suppliers understand OEM requirements for dashboards and central consoles


SIMULATION

Hearing The Latest Modelling Innovations To Ease The

Integration Of New Materials And Designs Across The Interior

SIMULATION METHODS

12.50 Benchmarking Static And Dynamic Modelling

For Trustworthy Crash Simulation Techniques To

Eliminate The Need Of Costly Physical Prototypes

• Discussing the major safety regulations that have to be met for interior structures to outline the benchmark for performance

• Analysing the most efficient simulation methods for temperature and humidity testing

• Comparing static against dynamic simulation for crash fracture modelling to assess the most effective method

• Determining the material properties that are required to fulfil a successful crash simulation


1.30 Networking Lunch In The Exhibition Showcase Area

LIGHTWEIGHT SEATING

Determining The Most Cost Effective Lightweight

Materials For Seat Frames And Foams To Meet Customer

Expectations And Safety Standards

SEATING: FRAME MATERIALS

2.30 Comparing Lightweight Material Options Such As

Composites And Magnesium To Reduce Costs And

Improve Safety Of Seat Frames

• Calculating the comparative cost of lightweight materials against traditional metals as a frame for seats

• Comparing flexibility in shape and thickness of new materials, factoring the material properties and manufacturing limitations

• Identifying solutions to magnesium processing difficulties to develop a new genre of lightweight seat frames

• Analysing the feasibility of using carbon fibre composites within seat frames to maintain structural integrity, reduce weight and cost

• Revealing safety results and material properties from using ceramics within seat frames to assess the potential for this lightweight alternative

Roberto Baccaglini, Principal Engineer - Seating Responsible, McLaren Automotive Ltd


Examining Materials And Processes For Cost-Effective Weight Reduction Of Electronics, NVH And Beyond

Day 2Thursday 28th January 2016


A quality and informative event, with a broad range of presentation and discussion

topics and good representation of OEMs, Suppliers and researchers

Project Engineer, Aston Martin

A well organized conference, providing very interesting and

varied presentation from cross-section of automotive

OEMs and suppliers, focused on lightweighting for the future

Principle Engineer, SAIC Motor Europe

9.00 Chair’s Opening Remarks

NOISE REDUCTION LIGHTWEIGHTING

Identifying Materials And Processing Opportunities To

Reduce The Weight Of Noise Reduction Components

NVH: DESIGN & MATERIAL SELECTION

9.10 Comparing Material Innovations Across Carpets,

Foams And Composites To Balance Noise Reduction

With Weight Saving

• Detailing the noise reduction and cost advantages observed from using resin based composites in NVH components as a lightweight alternative

• Mapping strategic areas to include NVH content that can provide successful noise reduction but minimize the amount of heavy layering required

• Revealing alternative composite techniques which can provide noise reduction functionality whilst minimising weight

• Evaluating the efficiency of each layer within the carpet to ensure each material is functional in reducing noise

Ian Thompson, Director of Innovation, McLaren Automotive Ltd


NVH: FOAM PROCESSING

9.50 Reviewing Chemical & Physical Techniques For

Foam Production That Can Reduce Weight & Maintain

Noise Reduction Properties

• Revealing design benefits to using PU foam as a flexible noise reducing technology

• Understanding physical foaming techniques with gas and water vapour to reveal the most weight effective processing methods

• Analysing noise reduction performance on chemical foaming within plastics and illustrating the processing techniques required as an alternative to physical foaming

• Identifying the optimum density of foam within the NVH layer to reduce both noise and weight


ELECTRONICS LIGHTWEIGHTING

Assessing Design And Material Selection Strategies That

Can Reduce Electronics Weight While Providing Greater

Functionality To Customers

ELECTRONICS: FUNCTIONALITY VS. WEIGHT

10.30 Understanding Customer Expectations In

Electronic Functionality & Infotainment To Determine

The Scope For Lightweighting

• Providing an overview of the future infotainment advances to predict customer expectations for electrical content in next generation vehicles

• Evaluating new advances in functional technology integration to reveal more electrical content that will be included in the interiors

• Assessing the impact the recent trend to electronic air conditioning has on weight to determine necessity of integration

• Calculating the desired and practical screen sizes for infotainment systems to provide a benchmark for customer expectations


11.10 Morning Refreshments In The Exhibition Showcase Area

ELECTRONICS: METAL ALTERNATIVES

11.40 Assessing Lighter Materials And Designs Of

Electronic Systems To Reduce Use Of Metals While

Meeting Functional Specifications

• Determining the necessity for metallic content in the interpersonal panel to remove heat whilst following industry trend to LED lighting

• Understanding composite options for infotainment systems that will still provide electro-magnetic functionality whilst reducing weight

• Revealing reduction in weight found with using composites to assess business case for adopting new technologies to implement this strategy

• Understanding the manufacturing process for an injection moulding plastic and stamped metal composite to effectively calculate cost of such a strategy

Yves Klett, Team Lead - Sandwich Technology Group, University Stuttgart


ELECTRONICS: INTEGRATION

12.00 Hearing How Electrical Systems Can Be

Combined And Integrated To Reduce The Weight Of

Providing The Same Functionality

• Evaluating the weight impact new electronic content has to highlight need for weight reduction strategies that still meet consumer trends

• Categorizing electrical content that is compatible to be integrated together and still remain functional

• Showcasing future technological advances in the infotainment sector to demonstrate integration possibilities

• Calculating the weight reduction that can be found through integration strategies


12.40 Networking Lunch In The Exhibition Showcase Area

ELECTRONICS: INTERPERSONAL PANEL MANUFACTURING

1.40 Detailing The Best Practices In Manufacturing

Electrical Frames Made Of Injection Moulded Plastic

And Stamped Metal

• Assessing the limitations on tooling and direction that the difference in manufacturing process for plastics and shield metals create

• Revealing best practices for changing from metal to plastic parts to ensure shape is executed

• Illustrating methods for manufacturing lightweight composite electrical shields that maintain necessary features

• Calculating the cost of changing shield material to integrate plastic to determine the business case for such a strategy


STRUCTURAL LIGHTWEIGHTING

Reviewing Material And Design Choices To Reduce The

Weight Of Cross-Car Beams And Pillars

COMPOSITE RELIABILITY

2.20 Revealing What Factors Need To Be Taken Into

Consideration When Calculating Fibre-Reinforced

Composites Fatigue Life

• Explaining the role micromechanical mechanisms has

on failure rates to understand why the uniaxial S-N

curve approach is not reliable for these structures

• Indicating how fatigue failure may be calculated through

a complex parameter-space method

• Revealing research projects and methods which will

identify the fatigue response of composite materials

Stuart Lamenski, Senior Lecturer of Stress Analysis, Coventry

University


3.00 Afternoon Refreshments In The Exhibition Showcase Area

PANEL: INTERIOR TRIM DEVELOPMENT

3.30 Revealing The Latest Advances In Interior Trim

Design And Engineering Which Can Lead To Reduced

Weight Whilst Ensuring A Quality Finish

Panelist: Alvise Marangoni, Body & Trim Department,

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A

STRUCTURAL COMPONENT LIGHTWEIGHTING

4.10 Identifying Possible Lightweight Material

Alternatives For Structural Components Such As

Cross-Car Beams & Pillars

• Determining of alternate materials and cross

fabrics within structural applications as a method of

lightweighting in comparison to conventional materials

• Providing an in depth performance analysis of alternate

materials and cross fabrics to ensure structural integrity

is met

• Revealing adaptations in the technical processes

required to enable use of lightweight materials or

structural component manufacturing

• Identifying materials which can be used as an alternative

for cross-beams and pillars whilst maintaining

structural strength and integrity


4.50 Chair’s Closing Remarks

5.00 End Of Congress

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Good all around,

very open discussion

with various presenters.

Broad representation of

the industry.

Will come next year.Senior Material Engineer,

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