Collaborative Engineering Services: Automotive and Truck OEM and Supplier Sectors
For Current or New Products: Component and Assembly Product Design Optimization Concepts and Development, through Design and Validation, to Achieve:
- Labor Cost Reduction
- Material Cost Reduction
- Component and/or Assembly Weight Reduction
- Improve Capital Utilization and Achieve Capital Cost Reduction
- Component Part and Assembly Quality Enhancement via Application of Six Sigma and DMAIC Methods
- Application of Current Products to New Markets/New Customers
- Adaptation of Current Products to New Markets through Design Change
- Resolution of Manufacturing Problems and Issues
- Expansion of Organizational Capability in the Eyes of Existing or New Customers
Current and Future Manufacturing Process “Fresh Eyes” Reviews
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Process Application and Selection for Appropriateness and Efficiency
Current Process Review for:-
Waste Elimination
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Reduced Material Handling
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Manufacturing Cost Reduction
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Throughput Enhancement
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Enhanced Manufacturing Capacity
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Current Process and Plant Arrangement Review to Enhance Safety and/or Respond to Past Issues
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Current and Future Process and Plant Arrangement to Reconcile Plant Footprint and Material Handling Requirements
Primary Product Categories where Burnham Engineering Associates Possess Specific, Thorough Hands-On Experience in Vehicle Design and Development:
- Engineering Feasibility Support for Design Studio digital design and clay property development – Automotive, Medium and Heavy-Duty Truck
- Total vehicle packaging engineering, body and chassis, and vehicle systems integration for Internal Combustion Drive (ICE) Systems and Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV’s)-Automotive and Medium Duty Truck
- Automotive Body-In-White Optimization (design, stamping, welding, assembly processes, gage processing). General Motors, Ford, FCA.
Automotive Body mechanism designs to include door and window systems, seat adjustment mechanisms, closure mechanisms, and latching. - Plastic injection molding (component design, tooling, assembly, fixturing).
- Automotive and aircraft seating systems (metal frames and structures, foam, mechanisms, assembly processes, manufacturing plant launch).
- Automotive fuel systems (six-layer coextruded blow-molded tanks, fuel system modules, filler tubes (component design, tooling, manufacturing processes, assembly).
- Automotive roof racks and exterior body components (component design, tooling, manufacturing processes, assembly).
