Design Thinking in the Automotive Industry. Creativity and Innovation

Design Thinking in the Automotive Industry. Creativity and Innovation
Author: Ellen Simon
Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2016-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3960670567

This book explores the application of Design Thinking in the automotive industry in order to explain which factors influence the innovativeness of Design Thinking teams. Seeking for innovation leadership, automotive manufacturers apply Design Thinking to enhance their competitiveness with customer-oriented products and services. Design Thinking is a multidisciplinary team-based methodology that adopts design principles to business management. In the literature and practice, however, it is not clear, what constitutes the relationship between the application of Design Thinking and team's innovativeness. A grounded theory and template analysis approach is used to develop a framework which explains this relationship. Managers and decision-makers of multinationals are provided with practical recommendations about how to implement Design Thinking to produce innovative products and services.

Innovative Design, Analysis and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering

Innovative Design, Analysis and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering
Author: Nicolas Gascoin
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2020-09-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811566194

This book gathers the best articles presented by researchers and industrial experts at the International Conference on “Innovative Design, Analysis and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2020)”. The papers discuss new design concepts, and analysis and manufacturing technologies, with a focus on achieving improved performance by downsizing; improving the strength-to-weight ratio, fuel efficiency and operational capability at room and elevated temperatures; reducing wear and tear; addressing NVH aspects, while balancing the challenges of Euro VI/Bharat Stage VI emission norms, greenhouse effects and recyclable materials. Presenting innovative methods, this book is a valuable reference resource for professionals at educational and research organizations, as well as in industry, encouraging them to pursue challenging projects of mutual interest.

Winning the Innovation Race

Winning the Innovation Race
Author: Lee Sage
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2000-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471333463

An Inside Look at the Process of Innovation-and How to Make it Work for your Business While the need for innovation is widely recognized, the practices that nurture it elude many executives. Winning the Innovation Race examines the three dimensions of innovation-people, processes, and technology-and provides vivid examples of practices that encourage innovation. This comprehensive book describes the forms that innovation takes in industrial organizations and how superior companies manage to sustain innovation through effective management. The practices of PACE (Premier Automotive Suppliers' Contributions to Excellence) Award-winning companies are used to illustrate how truly innovative companies make the most of their employees, how they treat product development as a "perfectible process," and how they create reward systems that build cultures of innovation. Some of the vital lessons you'll learn in this unique resource: * The virtue of "cheap failures" * Why organizational discomfort is needed * The role of executive leadership * How to sustain a culture of innovation

Total Vehicle Technology

Total Vehicle Technology
Author: Peter R. N. Childs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781860583773

The papers in this volume consider the innovation process in vehicle design. Topics include: trends in propulsion technology; powertrain development methods; hybrid vehicle technologies; choice of components; vehicle design and visualization; and vehicle systems technologies.

Innovations in Automotive Transmission Engineering

Innovations in Automotive Transmission Engineering
Author: Martin G Gabriel
Publisher: SAE International
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2003-12-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0768009952

The automotive transmission plays a vital role in the vehicle powertrain, yet in an optimum operation environment it is invisible to the customer. This report examines the technological innovations in transmission design that contribute to important overall vehicle characteristics such as fuel economy, vehicle performance, quality and reliability. This book is a reference providing background and solid supportive data for the manager and engineer with responsibility for directing the application of the transmission in vehicle design concepts. Historical information is briefly reviewed as a basis for the state of development of future transmissions. Topics Covered: Transmission Types Gearing the Transmission Transmission Controls Performance Attributes Transmission Efficiency and Internal Component Power Losses Harnessing Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) and more

Innovative Design, Analysis and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2018)

Innovative Design, Analysis and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2018)
Author: U. Chandrasekhar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2018-12-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811326975

The book includes the best articles presented by researchers, academicians and industrial experts at the International Conference on “Innovative Design and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2018)”. The book discusses new concept in designs, and analysis and manufacturing technologies for improved performance through specific and/or multi-functional design aspects to optimise the system size, weight-to-strength ratio, fuel efficiency and operational capability. Other aspects of the conference address the ways and means of numerical analysis, simulation and additive manufacturing to accelerate the product development cycles.Describing innovative methods, the book provides valuable reference material for educational and research organizations, as well as industry, wanting to undertake challenging projects of design engineering and product development.

The Productivity Dilemma

The Productivity Dilemma
Author: William J. Abernathy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1978
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Monograph on the fundamental dilemma between productivity and Innovation in the motor vehicle industry in the USA - following a historical account of the evolution of automobile design, shows how obstacles set by competitiveness, automation, etc. Shaped the course of technological change, and includes case studies with their respective chronology of events. Bibliography pp. 251 to 258, diagrams, graphs, photographs, references and statistical tables.

Technologies for economic and functional lightweight design

Technologies for economic and functional lightweight design
Author: Klaus Dröder
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-03-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3662629240

This book comprises the proceedings of the conference “Future Production of Hybrid Structures 2020”, which took place in Wolfsburg. The conference focused on hybrid lightweight design, which is characterized by the combination of different materials with the aim of improving properties and reducing weight. In particular, production technologies for hybrid lightweight design were discussed, new evaluation methods for the ecological assessment of hybrid components were presented and future-oriented approaches motivated by nature for the development of components, assemblies and systems were introduced. Lightweight design is a key technology for the development of sustainable and resource-efficient mobility concepts. Vehicle manufacturers operate in an area of conflict between customer requirements, competition and legislation. Material hybrid structures, which combine the advantages of different materials, have a high potential for reducing weight, while simultaneously expanding component functionality. The future, efficient use of function-integrated hybrid structures in vehicle design requires innovations and constant developments in vehicle and production technology. There is a great demand, especially with regard to new methods and technologies, for "affordable" lightweight construction in large-scale production, taking into account the increasing requirements with regard to variant diversity, safety and quality.