Several applications to automotive engineering of the advanced computational inverse techniques have been reported in this paper. The computational inverse techniques, such as gradient based methods with genetic algorithms, intergeneration projection genetic algorithms, progressive neural networks, reduced-base methods, etc. are firstly introduced. After that the applications to automotive engi...

A computer aided design system for determining the color appearance of metallic automotive coatings has been developed. A sketch based bidirectional reflectance distribution function design interface allows simple concept art to be used to style new metallic car colors. The final design is specified using industrial measurement standards for metallic color appearance, and paint formulations are...

This paper discusses the effect of the field stress variance on the value of demonstrated reliability in the automotive testing. In many cases the acceleration factor for a reliability demonstration test is calculated based on a high percentile automotive stress level, typically corresponding to severe user or environmental conditions. In those cases the actual field (‘true’) reliability for th...

The Affiliation Program currently includes: Adac Plastics, AGC America, Automotive Lighting, Avery Dennison, BMW, Coherix, Corning, DaimlerChrysler, Denso, Donnelly, Federal-Mogul Lighting Products, Fiat, Ford, GE, Gentex, GM NAO Safety Center, Guardian Industries, Guide Corporation, Hella, Ichikoh Industries, Koito Manufacturing, LumiLeds, Magna International, Meridian Automotive Systems, Nort...

the concept of coordination in supply chain management is different from the viewpoint of the roles of this chain and this difference causes more uncoordination at the entire of the supply chain. hence, regarding to the importance of this subject at the performance of supply chain, the clarification of the coordination concept as a casual model seems very necessary. in this research, the cognit...

in recent years, there has been a great concern about strategic supply chain management. the supply chain configuration approach is related to strategic management of material and information flows. most of suggested configurations in the part of strategic direction are based on environmental factors and structure-conduct-performance approach. exploring supply chain configuration with emphasis ...

Chuanxue Song 1, Yulong Shao 1, Shixin Song 2, Silun Peng 3, Fang Zhou 3, Cheng Chang 3 and Da Wang 1,* 1 State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China; [email protected] (C.S.); [email protected] (Y.S.) 2 School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Jilin University; Changchun 130022, China; [email protected] 3 Department of Autom...

Being an excellent field-bus, CAN bus has increasingly been used in automotive electronic systems. MC9S08DZ60, an MCU of the S08D Series of Freescale company is an 8-bit universal automotive electronics controller with a CAN module. In this paper, the design of automotive electronic control unit is introduced based on the MC9S08DZ60. The hardware structure and software design processes have bee...

Testing is an important quality assurance activity during development of automotive software. Automotive OEMs and suppliers use test case specifications to specify, mostly informal, test cases as well as supporting information like traces to requirements. While the quality of the test case specifications has a high influence on the quality of the subsequent testing, quality of informal automoti...