the purpose of this paper is to improve supply chain relationships in iranian small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) in automotive parts industry. for this reason, an importance-performance analysis (ipa) has been employed to categorized supply chain relationships metrics. also, the questionnaire method is used for gathering information. the paper identified thirteen supply chain relationshi...

The vision of virtual prototyping is to use virtual reality techniques for design evaluations and presentations based on a digital model instead of physical prototypes. In the automotive industries, CAD and CAE systems are widely used. This provides a good basis for virtual prototyping. This vision is therefore extremely interesting for automotive industries. Many companies have started to eval...

After extensive research work of several decades, automotive radars are finally pushing into consumer market. Commercially available radars are either for automatic cruise control or blind spot detection. Automatic cruise control systems adjust the vehicle speed according to the preceding vehicle whereas blind spot detection systems ease certain maneuvering, such as lane changing. Automotive ra...

This paper reviews numerical methods and analysis procedures used in the study of automotive disc brake squeal. It covers two major approaches used in the automotive industry, the complex eigenvalue analysis and the transient analysis. The advantages and limitations of each approach are examined. This review can help analysts to choose right methods and make decisions on new areas of method dev...

This paper discusses (based on the EU project AQUA) how the core elements of three complementary approaches and standards can be integrated into one compact skill set with training and best practices to be applied. In this project experts from Automotive SPICE (ISO 15504), Functional Safety (ISO 26262) and Lean Six Sigma collaborate. In a first analysis the experts identified an architecture of...