The demand for lightweight metals and related alloys is still the most suitable solution to many high-tech applications, including sports equipment automotive components where alternate movements require low inertia [...]

A method for modular design of structural products such as automotive bodies is presented where two structural products are simultaneously decomposed to components considering the structural performances of each structure and the component sharing between two structures. The problem is posed as an optimization to minimize the reduction of structural strength due to the introduction of spot-weld...

The main objective of this chapter is to define a set of strategic lines, from the public policy point of view, so that Portuguese suppliers of the auto industry can deploy a strategic alignment throughout the supply chain in order to position themselves as potential suppliers of the global sourcing strategy of their Iberian Peninsula clients. The characterization of the auto industry in Portug...

Many of today’s automotive control system simulation tools are suitable for simulation, but they provide rather limited support for model building and management. Setting up a simulation model requires more than writing down state equations and running them on a computer. The role of a model library is to manage the models of physical components of the system and allow users to share and easily...

-In present days, automobile industries are rapidly increased. All the automobile industries are in the process of supplying the vehicles at low cost. The major cost of the automobile components is its body parts. As per the European Union and Asian countries automotive components end life is very important factor in the design of the automotive. So everybody is concentrating on new materials w...

Modern automotive vehicles represent one category of CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) that are inherently timeand safety-critical. To justify the actions for quality-of-service adaptation and safety assurance, it is fundamental to perceive the uncertainties of system components in operation, which are caused by emergent properties, design or operation anomalies. From an industrial point of view, a ...

ubiquitous embedded systems employed to monitor and control physical processes: cars, airplanes, automotive highway systems, air traffic management , etc. In the past, research on embedded systems tended to focus on the design optimization problems of these computational devices. In recent years, the focus has shifted towards the complex synergy between the computational elements and the physic...

The millimeter-wave front-end module for an automotive radar sensor is generally composed of an antenna placed on the front surface of the sensor head and a millimeter-wave circuit inside it. As the antenna for the radar sensor, several types of antennas, a slotted waveguide antenna, a triplate antenna, a dielectric lens antenna, a dielectric leaky wave antenna and a microstrip antenna, have be...

Many business organizations have started incorporating methodologies of resource wastage minimization, concentration on added value tasks and permanent quality improvement through the use of kaizen philosophy. The concept behind the Kaizen philosophy relies on the distinction between value adding and non value adding activities, and then the focus on improving the productivity level of some pro...

The development of distributed applications in the automotive domain based on networks of electronic control units is getting increasingly complex and error-prone. In current practice, system-level views of the network are merely used to characterise broad technical constraints such as performance requirements, and to chose the hardand software components accordingly. In contrast, the semantic ...