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PACE 200 8 -200 9 Global Vehicle Collaboration Project Emerging Market Vehicle. Missions. To engineer a vehicle for emerging markets. To develop among the students the concepts related to collaborative design. To enhance collaboration between PACE institutions. Project Definitons.
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PACE 2008-2009Global Vehicle Collaboration ProjectEmerging Market Vehicle
Missions • To engineer a vehicle for emerging markets. • To develop among the students the concepts related to collaborative design. • To enhance collaboration between PACE institutions.
Project Definitons • Emerging Markets: The denomination used to make reference to the nations that are becoming industrialized. - Growing GDP - Growing per-capita income - Growing markets for industrial products It is an economical rather than political or cultural definition.
Emerging Markets • Different levels of development • Area and population disparities: • Brazil: 8.5million km2 & 170 million ppl • India: 3.3million km2 & 1.2 billion ppl • Geographically dispersed • Different road conditions • Cultural diversity: • Individual X Group • Different wishes and tastes.
Emerging Markets • Economic Data – PPP (2007)
Emerging markets • Vehicle Ownership (per 1000ppl)
Emerging markets in History • Early XXth Century • USA: 1908 – Model T was produced for the growing urban middle class. • 1930 and post-WWII • Western Europe: VW, Fiat 500, Citroën 2CV, Morris Minor - affordable to the growing middle class. • Present • China, India, Brazil, Russia
Learning from History • Inovative products, affordable, reliable, easy to drive and mantain, all of the emerging market vehicles from the past became symbols for their respective nations and auto-industries – classic sucessful products that changed the landscape.
For the future • Like technology, organizational practices also evolved. • Products, Markets, Supply chains and Development became global. • Using collaborative engineering across the globe can optimize development time and quality by the better use of a corporation resources. Students need to know how to operate on their future work environment!
Design proposals • GM Design sent a set of 15 DVD with their design concepts for the emerging market vehicle. • PACE Office has given us total freedom to develop the vehicle as we see fit. • Which design should we choose?
The chosen one “.RU” – Originally meant for the Russian Market.
Emerging Market Vehicle • To guide the teams on their sub-system design. • Technical Specifications • Realistic targets for dimensions, performance, operation, confort, safety, cost. • Technical solutions • Possible ways to implement some of the vehicle subsystems.
Emerging Market Vehicle Basic Specifications: • Capacity: 2 adults and two youngsters (up to 15yo). The driver will seat confortably if he/she is: • No shorter than 1,50m and no taller than 1,90m. • The control forces will be compatible with the strenght of the shortest driver (Refer to human engineering guides for precise values of strenght and limb movement amplitudes). • Total load capacity will be near 5000N including passengers, luggage and fuel. • Maximum value for the vehicle empty weight will be 8000N.
Emerging Market Vehicle • Basic dimensions: • Lenght: 3,70m (max) • Width: 1,60m (max) • Height: 1,50m (max) • Wheelbase: 2,6m (max) • Track: 1,40m (max) • Handling: • Slight linear understeer
Emerging Market Vehicle • The vehicle will be capable to sustain a constant speed of 120km/h in highways, fully ladden. No downshift will be needed if the gradient is less than 3%. • The vehicle will be capable to climb in a 20% gradient, fully ladden. The two conditions will define maximum power and torque. In both cases the traction limit will not be exceeded.
Emerging Market Vehicle • Powerplant: • Given the diferent charactheristics of each market in terms of energy sources it is possible to have multiple poweplants options that will fit on the vehicle. • Internal combustion engine (gasoline-ethanol) • Electric • Hybrid The performance requirements were established for a gasoline-ethanol fueled vehicle.
Schools and Systems • Each School was free to choose one system.
Project Organization Chart • How to have the teams working together? • How to organise tasks, flow of information?
Project Development • Basic specification of all sub-systems passed to the schools. • Each School started to detail its sub-system – According to the academic objectives set by the faculty. • Design Reviews. • Work with mentors.
Project organization • Organizing the calendar compatible with school year (Exams, holidays). • Every school has its own academic goals for the project – Include them as overall project goals. • Setting-up a structure for meetings – Videoconference, phone line. • Teamcenter Site (Thanks Siemens UGS!)
Project Development • Teamcenter site
Project Development • Assembly of the complete vehicle CAD Model. • Every school wrote a detailed project report. • The report contains detailed technical data to allow the project continuation during next year by the manufacturing team. • CAD and CAE files are also part of the overall project report.
Final Remarks • Thanks for joining the 2008-2009 PACE Global Project! Marcelo A. L. Alves E-mail: malalves@usp. br or marcelo.alves@poli.usp.br Phone: + 55 11 3091-9879