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Putting RISK Beyond Recall
SGS offers a unique spectrum of services along the entire value chain. In order to fulfill the steadily increasing quality and safety requirements in the automotive industry, manufacturers and suppliers find SGS the ideal global business partner they can rely on.
To learn more about our solutions for the automotive industry we invite you to register to our FREE Seminars during the FISITA 2008 Conference and our Open House with free Bavarian lunch at our test lab in Munich.
17th September - FREE seminars
Location: Meeting room Königssee, 2nd floor, FISITA site (ICM MUNICH)
19th September - OPEN HOUSE: SGS-CQE EMC and Environmental Simulation Test Center (minimum number of participants: 10)
- 10:00-13:30 - Open House and FREE Bavarian Lunch
Location: SGS-CQE EMC and Environmental Simulation Test Center, Hofmannstr. 50 81379 München
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Fill out our registration form to join in our FREE Seminars and Open House during the FISITA 2008 conference.
SEMINAR DETAILS-
9:00 - 10:00 - Automotive Materials and Parts Emissions: History – Methods – Regulations
Since 1996 the Car Interior Material Testing (CIMT) division of SGS CTS Automotive has demonstrated a high level of expertise in emission and material testing including weathering, hot light fastness and ageing, and climatic stress tests. By virtue of this expertise, CTS Automotive CIMT is the test center for automotive standards and, in Europe, the service provider with the most certifications issued by carmakers (OEMs).
The presentation gives an overview of the history of materials and parts emission tests, as well as common and specialized testing methods. A brief insight into regulations and associated market mechanisms will also be provided.
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10:00 - 11:00 - From Recall to Prevention: Failure & Damage Analysis in the Automotive Industry
Technical advances in the automotive industry coupled with more demanding customer requirements are leading to more complex designs and processes
The resulting time, cost and market pressures create greater risk and probability for technical failure. In some cases, especially when safety-relevant components are involved, undesirable recall campaigns have to be implemented.
Using modern quality assurance methods and failure and damage analysis, new automotive components are scrutinized in for weak points before costly, image-damaging field failures occur. This session uses case studies to demonstrate the use of these innovative analytical techniques to minimize recall risks.
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15:00 - 16:00 - HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test) – A Fast Method to Uncover Design Weaknesses
The HALT method is able to detect failure characteristics of systems units that are assembled with electronic, mechanical, electro-mechanical, etc. components, by exposing them to extreme thermal, mechanical and/or product specific stress situations. With HALT, the product is stressed beyond specification until malfunction/destruction occurs or until the functional limit of the technology is reached.
Benefits of HALT: Uncover design weaknesses quickly, resulting in:
- Increased product reliability
- Reduced field service and warranty costs
- Faster time to market and minimized development costsm
- Higher customer satisfaction
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16:00 - 17:00 - TS 16949 and ISO 27001: An Advantage for the Automotive Industry?
The increasing quality demands of stakeholders within the automotive supply chain apply not only to product quality, but also to the corresponding manufacturing and information security processes.
The presentation begins with a history of the TS 16949 and ISO 27001 standards and a description of their essential requirements. In addition, their common requirements for the management process and the reciprocal effect of the two management systems are explained in more detail.
The qualitative and quantitative benefits of implementing the management systems in accordance with these standards is also covered. Cost and time savings potentials of a combined certification are also discussed. Finally, an example is presented of a method for the evaluation of cost-efficiency of security management investments based on a modern statistical approach.
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17:00 - 18:00 - Automotive Supply Chain Management: Asia-Europe, Asia-USA: Case Studies
Globalization of the automotive supply chain poses a major conflict of interest between cost and quality considerations. Sourcing products directly from low cost countries decreases expenses, but also compromises quality and disrupts “in sequence” production. In our seminar, we present customer case studies demonstrating that outsourcing international supplier development and product qualification is an effective means of maintaining price competitive direct supply sources, while controlling the quality risk.
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