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Meeting
themajorchallenges
oftheautomotive industry
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esearch projects open up to manufacturers the
windowson theworld. Theygive them theopportunity
to strengthen their technological, scientific and
regulatorymonitoring.
This is the reasonwhy LISI AUTOMOTIVE chose toachievemost
of its projectswithdiversepartners: clients, suppliers, university
laboratories ormajor engineering schools (
grandes écoles
) and
finally private laboratorieswithwhich theGroup cooperates in
severalaspects.
Lighteningvehiclesandoptimizing
assembly
These areas of research respond tomedium term issues of the
automotive industry. The first relates to lightening vehicles, in
order tomeet environmental and economicmarkets of today
and tomorrow. The second concerns research for performance
development, inorder to reducemarketingdeadlines andallow
LISI AUTOMOTIVE customers to contain their assembly costs.
The third aims at industrial performance towards operational
excellence. The fourth and last issue, compliance with
environmental rules, should finallyenable to limit the impactof
theGroup’sactivities.
Materials: optimize
existingsolutions
Theuseofveryhighresistancesteel,lightalloysorcomposites
is the most innovative track to solve the challenges of
lighteningnextgenerationvehicles.However, theseanswers
should not overshadow the efforts to optimize existing
solutions. These canbe implemented at the product design
stage, thanks to a better understanding of the performance
ofmaterialsandbyusingnumerical simulation.Materialand
coating characterization tests (steel, plastics) areperformed
continuously
in
different
environmental
conditions.
Databases that result from these trials are essential. They
allow safe use ofmaterials and as close as possible to their
limits.
Further increasingknowledge
oftheperformanceofmaterials
