Automotive industry outlook 2018 indiaACEA routinely releases updated Economic and Industry Reports on the automotive business, with the most recent figures on the economy as nicely as registrations, production and trade of passenger vehicles and industrial cars. Weight reduction and material substitution are increasing trends in the automotive industry. In this project, the job of substituting the steel body side in the monocoque of a massive SUV towards an aluminum body side was investigated by way of a design engineering strategy adopting a breadth-first analysis method. 1 conclusion based on the evaluation is that the selection of joining technologies would grow to be arbitrary due to the breadth-1st strategy. In this paper, the authors present their findings from the aforementioned case, including the challenges with switching between materials with fundamentally different properties when performing material substitution projects. The possibility of possessing taken a depth-first analysis strategy, and the possible effects … READ MORE ...