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Conference - Joining in Car Body Engineering

German/English simultaneous translation

20 - 21 April 2010
Bad Nauheim/Germany

Joining in Car Body Engineering 2010

No lightweight design without joining innovations

It is the joining processes that, in the end, are decisive in determining the viability of modern car body concepts: Innovative lightweight design concepts, whether they are based on functional lightweight design using (ultra)high-strength steels, or on light metals such as aluminium or magnesium, or on the application of fibre reinforced plastics – or, more likely, a mix of these materials – can only be realized if complex joining tasks are fulfilled in order to install robust and economically sound production processes. Looking at future challenges, lightweight design targets are by no means the only requirements in the automotive volume series production. It is probably equally important to avoid an overflow of too many, and too costly, different joining processes. The goal is to find processes that can easily be adapted to very different joining tasks and very different materials – all this in times of an upcoming fundamental re-thinking of car body architectures brought forth by the foreseeable electrification of propulsion systems.

With this background, the Automotive Circle International conference on “Joining in Car Body Engineering 2010“ again sets out to document the most recent achievements and to discuss the future of modern car body joining technology, featuring detailed progress reports on today’s body shop processes, trailblazing development projects of important system suppliers as well as inspiring research results of leading institutes.

Following its proven structure, the conference is divided into two separate modules, which focus on innovations in adhesive bonding technology and hybrid bonding on the one hand, and newest developments in thermal and mechanical joining processes on the other.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Bad Nauheim!

With progress reports of the following OEM

Audi AG
Adam Opel GmbH
BMW AG
Volkswagen AG
Daimler AG
Volvo Car Corporation

The conference is aimed at:

Automotive engineers at OEMs, engineering service providers and system suppliers, with responsibility for joining projects in the planning, pre-development, production and research levels.

Exclusive market poll

The auditorium of the ACI Conference “Joining in Car Body Engineering 2010” represents a high level of expertise and market knowledge in the field of automotive joining technologies, with a panoply of highly experienced car body engineers drawn from international OEMs, development service providers, system suppliers and research institutes.

A few weeks before the event, an anonymous online poll of all conference participants will thus aim to elucidate the considered opinion of this body of experts on issues concerning current joining processes in car body construction. The results of the poll will be announced at the beginning of the conference and made available exclusively to the conference participants.

Chair

Module 1:

Prof. Klaus Dilger, Institute of Joining and Welding Technology, Technical University of Brunswick, DE
Prof. Christian Lammel, IFF GmbH, Munich, DE

Module 2:

Prof. Stefan Böhm, Institute of Joining and Welding Technology, Technical University of Brunswick, DE
Dr. Dirk Meine, Automotive Circle International, DE

Board

Dr. Klaus Koglin, AUDI AG, DE
Dr. Udo Hänle, BMW AG, DE
Dr. Thomas Rudlaff, Daimler AG, DE
Dr. Antonio Fuganti, Centro Ricerche FIAT, IT
Dr. Ludger Wienand, Ford-Werke GmbH, DE
Hajime Watanabe, Honda R&D Co., Ltd., JP
Dr. Kiyokazu Mori, Nissan Motors Co., Ltd., JP
Gunther Heim Adam, Opel GmbH, DE
Olivier Roman, PSA Peugeot Citroën S.A.S., FR
Bernard Criqui, Renault SAS, FR
Hiroaki Iwamoto, Toyota Motor Corp., JP
Johnny K. Larsson, Volvo Car Corp., SE

For information regarding conference & exhibition, please contact:
Amanda Beyer
Automotive Circle International
T +49 511 9910 377
F +49 511 9910 379
amanda.beyer@vincentz.net

Participating companies:
(as of: 06.04.2010)

Delegates Section:

Module 1 »

Module 2 »

Download:

Conference
Programme»
(PDF, 198 KB)

Update from
14.04.2010 Agenda
Module 1 »
(PDF, 52 KB)

Agenda
Module 2 »
(PDF, 52 KB)

Exhibition and Sponsoring Details:
Exhibition/
Sponsoring »
(PDF, 530 KB)

Exhibition floor
plan »
(PDF, 490 KB)

Exhibitors
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