GET INVOLVED:
7 KEY REASONS TO ATTEND:
- Share in comprehensive per material analysis to decipher how to achieve sufficient scalability of lightweight materials: Assessing realistic solutions to both technically and commercially enable automation
- Benchmark your gram strategy and benefit from a 360° analysis of how OEMs are approaching lightweighting challenges to meet emissions targets and deliver improved fuel economy to the customer
- Hear directly from Material Suppliers on their approach to establishing a consolidated global supply chain, allowing a commercially acceptable source of advanced lightweight materials across the automotive industry
- Discover the most innovative Body-In-White weight reduction strategies: Assessing the trade-offs between weight, cost and performance for different multi-material solutions
- Deliver on reduced CO2 emissions across the vehicle life cycle: Examine how to make efficiencies and reduce wastage across composite material manufacture
- Engage in collaborative discussions and cultivate relationships across the supply chain including leading R&D institutions, OEMs and Material Suppliers
- Evaluate the latest technological innovations for joining, tooling and forming
to assess how they can support your gram strategy allowing
cost-effective high volume manufacturing of lightweight materials
without compromising technical performance
Expert Speakers Include:
Global Automotive Lightweight Materials 2012
9th Summit In Our Global Automotive Innovation Series:
Designing and manufacturing a commercially viable lightweight vehicle, whilst maintaining structural performance, remains a top priority for the automotive industry, as they battle to meet stringent carbon emissions targets and fulfill consumer demands for highly fuel efficient vehicles.
However, significant cost barriers remain across the advanced lightweight materials cycle from procurement and manufacturing processes to end of life recycling. Clearly tackling these costs will be key to mass market application, in tandem with resolving the remaining technical challenges to ensure optimal part performance.
At the Global Automotive Lightweight Materials Initiative 2012 you will be able to join the lightweighting community to benchmark your gram strategy, examine best practices and discover innovative, commercially viable solutions for sourcing, integrating and manufacturing advanced lightweight materials.
This is your opportunity to find out actual results being delivered in weight savings, amongst a backdrop of candid debate on collaborative opportunities to enable widespread adoption of advanced lightweight materials and finding the most feasible routes to achieving scale.
Vehicle OEMs and Material Suppliers Will Be Joined By:
- Material Manufacturers & Processors
- Research & Development Institutions
- Government Legislators
By Attending This Summit You Will Be Able To:
- Join in constructive debate on performance benefits and limitations of both metallic and composite materials for the body-in-white, underbody and interior systems to further develop your understanding of light-weighting for significant fuel economy improvements
- Understand the material suppliers’ view on forging a commercially viable route to market for a consolidated and harmonised supply chain
- Evaluate the manufacturability and assembly costs for specific lightweight materials solutions to generate a realistic future strategy for high volume production
- Share in per material analysis and take away ideas for enabling cost effective automation of lightweight materials to deliver economies of scale and reduce per part manufacturing costs
- Cultivate relationships and expand your contacts portfolio across the value chain with Vehicle OEMs, Material Suppliers and leading Research & Development experts – all in one space to support advancement of your lightweighting strategy
Hitachi Chemical
"Great opportunity to learn about commercial and technology trends"
BUSINESS CASE:
If increasingly stringent emissions targets are to be met and vehicle OEMs are to offer customers vastly increased fuel economy...
... it is vital that lightweight material stakeholders collaborate to facilitate sourcing, material performance, automated manufacturing and scalability solutions to increase the speed of uptake of lightweight materials to improve body-in-white, underbody and interior systems.
At the Global Automotive Lightweight Materials Initiative 2012, you will meet the leading experts, from vehicle OEMs, material suppliers, research & development institutions and other stakeholders all identifying pragmatic solutions for cost-effectively developing their gram strategy approach to improving fuel economy by reducing vehicle mass.
Part of London Business Conferences’ Automotive Innovation series, and following five hugely successful ‘EV Battery Tech: Global Cost Reduction Initiatives’, it will duplicate the tried and tested model, where the industry raises the issues and discusses the solutions around reducing the cost of sourcing, integrating and manufacturing lightweight materials for improved fuel economy.