Safety Made Simpler

摘要

ESI Group s automated process reduces the safety redesign period for an automobile from 8 to 5 months. An automobile original equipment manufacturer (OEM) wanted to introduce an existing vehicle into the North American market, but its head impact deceleration was 20% above Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards 201 and 201U limits. The OEM hired EASi to re-engineer and redesign the interior to meet an internal target that required reducing deceleration to 20% below 201/201U limits. Traditional manual methods of determining impact zones, selecting impact points, computing impact angles, assigning initial velocities, etc., would have taken about one day per point for each of the 80 points typically needed for a 201/201U analysis. Using these methods, the entire design process, including the lengthy design approval process, would have taken about eight months.