in today's competitive world, establishıng a proper system of evaluating firms performance is essential. the purpose of this study is to evaluate the financial performance of pharmaceutical, basic metals and automotive parts companies using a new method. the fuzzy ahp is used for weighting the performance evaluation measures and fuzzy topsis and fuzzy vikor is also used to rank the compani...

We have developed an efficient simulation technology for automotive wire harness design. Our technology consists of a layout design simulation and a bending simulation for wire harness. In addition, we have developed an efficient method for wire harness manufacturing design by the use of 3D CAD. These CAE technologies conclusively lead to front-loading of automotive development which is require...

This research studies the impact of information technology enabled coordination on product modularization in the automotive industry. A structural equation model is tested based on 177 responses to questionnaires from 177 Korean first tier automotive suppliers. The results provide support for the hypothesis that high quality of exchanged information enables better supply chain coordination, whi...

AUTOSAR supports the re-use of software and hardware components of automotive electronic systems. Therefore, amongst other things, AUTOSAR defines a software architecture that is used to decouple software components from hardware devices. This paper gives an overview about the different layers of that architecture. In addition, the upper most layer that concerns the application specific part of...

This paper presents the results of a recently completed European Commission partfunded consortium project with the aim of developing biocomposites for challenging applications. This aim incorporates developing the material and processing approaches and evaluating demonstrator products. This paper gives the results of several automotive parts evaluated including automotive panels and structural ...

Model-based design enables the automatic generation of final-build software from models for high-volume automotive embedded systems. A software engineering framework is needed to support this. This paper presents a framework of processes, methods, and tools for the design of automotive embedded systems. A steer-bywire system serves as an example.

The automotive market has been a key driving market segment for the development of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). This paper provides an historical perspective on MEMS in automotive applications, examples of devices in production, requirements for the applications, infrastructure and specific engineering disciplines that have been developed to address these requirements, and a glimpse ...

Today’s interest in magnesium alloys for automotive applications is based on the combination of high strength properties and low density. For this reason magnesium alloys are very attractive as structural materials in all applications where weight savings are of great concern. In automotive applications weight reduction will improve the performance of a vehicle by reducing the rolling resistanc...

This paper focusses on recent developments and on-going research related to parallel and distributed approaches for crashworthiness simulation, using the PAM-CRASH code from ESI as an example. The developments described here relate directly to the take-up in the automotive industry of the latest High Performance Computing (HPC) technology, since crash and safety analysis is well established in ...