JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #102 - January/February 2016 - 3

Cycle times at
the heart of the issue

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As the automotive sector enters into
some rough times, lowering vehicle
weight is more than ever a central issue,
and even a necessity. Lower weight
appears to be the one solution for
reaching regulatory goals, in particular where reducing CO2 emissions is
concerned. Apart from that, there are
still no solutions for a number of other
environment-related issues (particulate
matter, for example).

When it comes to processes, however,
things become more complicated. The
plants are designed to build vehicles using
steel and aluminium, and not other - or
hardly any other - materials. Vehicle
assembly is also designed with steel and
aluminium in mind, and the current
processes conform to builders' productivity standards. This raises even more
challenges, making progress more difficult
in this area. BMW succeeded by starting
out from scratch, but this is not always
So lowering weight is imperative for all
possible and not the only solution. There
builders. There are many ways to do this: have been other fruitful research and
through design, or through the equipdevelopment efforts, and now producment, onboard electronics, passive safety tion processes with reduced cycle times
features, materials, or process. In all
(under two minutes) are available. So it
these areas, builders are making progress is possible to introduce more composite
as a function of their specific concerns
materials into vehicles without drastic
regarding their own range of vehicles.
change, as more and more examples are
showing.
With respect to materials, the competition is very open and players are being
One very good example is Cetim's
proactive in general. There is progress in November 3rd inauguration of its Quilted
the area of composites, and the materials Stratum Process (QSP) line in Nantes
currently available can provide solutions (western France). This high-output
for most of the issues facing designers
industrial production line for thermoplasand builders, to such an extent that alltic composite parts is designed primarily
composite - or practically all-composite for the automotive sector, but also has
- vehicles are now on our roads. The
great potential for the aerospace sector.
feasibility has been proved, and BMW is
blazing a trail for others. We can consiIf you want to learn more on the subject,
der now that composite materials might we encourage you as of now to reserve
very well become a necessity in the auto- your morning on next March 9th for the
motive sector, or at least that they will
conference that we are organizing on this
penetrate at a significantly higher rate in subject at the 2016 JEC World.
the near future.
Have a good read!
No102 January - February 2016 /

Cécile Lagoutte
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lagoutte@jeccomposites.com

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