
Doors & Closures in Car Body Engineering 2024
Functionality at the highest level
Car doors, tailgates and hoods remain at the forefront of technical developments in car body engineering. They contain a great variety of functionality and many important features that are relevant for customer comfort. In addition, they dominate the outer appearance of a car and thus play an important role in the impression a vehicle makes on its owner.
The already high complexity of the tasks will be further increased by additional challenges:
All these and further questions will be addressed at Automotive Circle’s Doors and Closures in Car Body Engineering 2024 conference, again gathering its leading international network of specialist engineers in Bad Nauheim (Germany) on November 12-13, 2024, to exchange views on latest innovations and trends in modern hang-on part development and production.
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Our conference highlights:
Doors & Closures Systems Award
You are part of the jury! This award is bestowed by the Automotive Circle for the most convincing series OEM hang-on part development.
Accompanying Exhibition
Benefit from the exhibition on site, where topic-specific products and services will be displayed!
Technology Clinic
The audience is invited to benchmark the door opening and closing performances for a selection of current vehicles brought to the conference location.
Meet the Speakers
During the breaks, the speakers will be available for individual questions and further discussions.
Conference Program
8.20 am |
Welcome and conference introduction |
Dr. Dirk Meine, Automotive Circle, DE |
OEM Systems Developments I
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8.45 am |
New Audi A5 doors closure system – challenges during the development
– subsequent discussion at the hardware exhibit –
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Robert Winkel, Jermaine Most, Audi AG, DE |
9.45 am |
Pillar-less Double Sliding Door
– subsequent discussion at the hardware exhibit –
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Hiroshi Shingu, Makoto Ono, Honda Motor Co., Ltd., JP |
10.45 am |
Coffee and contacts / Exhibition |
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11.30 am |
Flush doors system of the new Hyundai Grandeur
– subsequent discussion at the hardware exhibit – |
Rolf Verhoeven, Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center, BE; Hyeonggeun Jo, Kyeongjun Lim, Hyundai Motors, KR |
12.30 pm |
Lunch break / Exhibition / New Car Show |
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Advancing the doors experience
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1.45 pm |
Fully Integrated Smart and Stepless Door Brake
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Christian Rucha, HQ-Europe GmbH, DE |
2.15 pm |
System Solutions for Enabling Fully Flush Doors – Safe, Comfortable and Affordable
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Dr. Marco Eggert, Jesus Galan, Kiekert AG, DE |
2.45 pm |
The next level of innovative concepts for seamless door panels
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Sebastian Stücker, Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG, DE |
3.15 pm |
Meet the speakers / Coffee and contacts / Exhibition |
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OEM Systems Developments II
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4.00 pm |
LI MEGA Doors and Closures
– subsequent discussion at the hardware exhibit – |
Jie Zhou, Li Auto, CN |
5.00 pm |
The New Opel Grandland Doors and its Composite Tailgate
– subsequent discussion at the hardware exhibit – |
Christoph Dudenhöffer, Gregor Zoledzki, Stellantis NV, DE |
6.00 pm |
Get together / Exhibition |
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7.00 pm |
Network Dinner |
OEM Technical Progress Reports
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8.30 am |
PATAC Intelli-Motion Drive Control Unit of Power Door System
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Mei Ming, PATAC, CN |
9.15 am |
Next generation of Renault Aluminum Doors, based on Megane E
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Dr. Christian Lange, Constellium, DE; Emmanuel Le-Berre, Renault Group, FR |
10.00 am |
Coffee and contacts / Exhibition |
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Kinematics and Powering
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10.45 am |
Efficient Kinematics Development for Door and Closure Systems |
Prof. Mathias Hüsing, RWTH Aachen Univeristy, Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics (IGMR), DE |
11.15 am |
Power Side Doors and their Unique Challenges
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Tim Bartsch, Stabilus GmbH, DE |
11.45 am |
Doors and Closures Systems Award 2024
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Disclosure of the results of the awards competition and bestowal of the award |
12.00 pm |
Technology Clinic: Door Opening/Closing
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The audience is invited to benchmark the door opening and closing performances for a selection of current vehicles brought to the conference location. |
1.00 pm |
Lunch break / Meet the Speakers / Exhibition |
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Structural Developments
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2.15 pm |
Entire Automatic Frunk System
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Jörg Gschweng, John Fann, Ingin Europe. DE |
2.45 pm |
Structurally Improved and Sustainable Hinge Pillars with Rheocasting
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Claudio Maritan, Friulpress Samp S.P.A, IT |
3.15 pm |
OEM Conclusions
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Advisory Board experts on current trends and challenges in doors and closures development |
3.30 pm |
Farewell address and end of the conference |
Dr. Dirk Meine, Automotive Circle, DE |
Status as of October 23, 2024.
All times in CET (UTC+1)
Program is subject to change.
Participants
Exhibition & Sponsoring
Exhibitors and Sponsors on site
Become a sponsor or exhibitor
Take advantage of the high coverage of the Automotive Circle and profit from the sponsoring options before and during the events. Show your competence and services, matching the conference subjects, to the numerous car body engineers of international OEM. Thus, you are strengthening your brand awareness in the automotive industry!
Come on board as an exhibitor or sponsor and benefit from this excellent platform to strongly promote your company’s capabilities as a reliable supplier!
Detailed information for various exibition and sponsoring options will follow here soon!