
Car Body Parts: Materials and Forming Processes 2024
Combining expertise
As a premiere in 2024, Automotive Circle’s new event Car Body Parts: Materials and Forming Processes combines two of its long-established annual focus conferences in Bad Nauheim, Germany. The former Materials in Car Body Engineering and Car Body Parts / Forming in Car Body Engineering conferences join forces and merge into a two-day congress.
With a mixture of focus contributions in two-fold parallel sessions as well as general-interest plenary presentations, the congress aims to cover both progress in car body materials development and car body part production processes, bringing together the expertise of Automotive Circle’s global network of material experts and forming process specialists.
Your invitation to hand in your abstract for Car Body Parts: Materials and Forming Processes 2024!
Call for speaker
We cordially invite you to take an active part in this new event: Let us know about your recent progress relevant to the congress topics and submit your suggestion for a half-hour technical presentation, reporting about your latest developments, applications or study results.
To do that, please send your convincing and concise abstract describing your achievements using our online submission form no later than
January 12, 2024.
In particular, the congress seeks to discuss progress in the following areas:
- latest series car body material concepts, especially for next-generation BEV
- new steel, aluminum, magnesium or composite/plastics material developments, enabling
- improved in-use car body part performance and durability
- a reduced scope-3 climate gas footprint / higher recycled materials content
- better formability and processability
- greater design freedom
- new or wider application windows in the car body.
- efficient forming processes for both structural and outer skin car body parts, e.g. via
- panel forming innovations in the tool shop and press plant, from method planning/simulation to tryout and series production equipment
- Aluminium or steel hot forming process improvements
- (mega)castings and their capabilities
- extrusion, roll- or blow-forming processes and their efficient use in the car body
- specific semi-finished goods and their benefits (e.g. tailor-welded/tailor rolled blanks, hybrid materials)
- improved forming process control / quality control tools
- smart digitalization and data management in press plant, foundry, tool shop
Whenever it is meaningful as a complement to a presentation, the accompanying exhibition of demonstrator car body parts or full car bodies is possible and highly encouraged.
Based on your abstract, your proposal will be evaluated in collaboration with the members of the OEM Advisory Board to the congress. In that process, the novelty of your results, their industrial relevance and the engineering-oriented, technical character of your proposal will be of particular importance. Please do avoid the impression of a mere product promotion. (Advice on how you may best be successful with your abstract may be found here.)
Further key dates
- Notification of acceptance of your proposal: by end of January 2024
- Publication of the congress programme: end of February 2024
- Submission of your English-language presentation documents as a pdf for the congress proceedings: May 17, 2024
Please note that, for each accepted contribution, one speaker per presenting company (max. two different companies) will be fully invited to the congress, exempt of the congress fees and including accommodation in the congress hotel.
Conference Agenda
The Agenda will be published in the beginning of 2024.
Participants
International OEM Advisory Board
The Automotive Circle and OEM Advisory Board of Car Body Parts: Materials and Forming Processes, consisting of experts from the following brands and companies:
Edip Ozer Arman
TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE NV/SA
Dr. Isotta Cerri
Toyota Motor Europe
Yvan Chastel
Renault S.A.S.
Dr. Chris Frohwein
Volkswagen AG, DE
Thomas d´Hautefeuille
Renault
Takao Hayashi
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., JP
Rebecca Hitch
Jaguar Land Rover Ltd., GB
Marc Hummel
Audi
Richard Johansson
Volvo Car Corporation, SE
Dr. Martin Kasparbauer
Audi
Kenichi Kawasaki
Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
Dr. Taejeong Kim
Hyundai Motor Company, KR
Dr. Jenni Meiners
Stellantis, DE
Dr. Markus Pfestorf
BMW Group, DE
Andrea Pipino
Stellantis, IT
Anthony Riley
Jaguar Land Rover Ltd., GB
Klaus Sammer
BMW
Jatinder P. Singh
General Motors Company, US
Niklas Sonesson
Volvo Cars
Michele Maria Tedesco
Stellantis, IT
Loïc Vaissière
Renault
Dr. Jürgen Wesemann
Ford-Werke GmbH, DE
Dr. You Ye
PATAC (Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center), CN
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!
Check out the various exibition and sponsoring options!
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