Screw Top
Fixing automakers with a screw gauge!
On the subject of skin panels and steel, I remember a conversation I had with a executive in the steel industry. His company was very much in the automotive steel supply and is supplied to a number of original equipment manufacturers in India. Entrusted the thickness of steel plate provided for the same models had been declining over the years. The reduction was not great - not as 26 mm, 28 mm, but 27.7mm and 28mm. But when you have a steel shell weighing about 400kgs, even a 2% reduction is in addition to the many. And that multiply up to 50,000 cars years and are looking to save 400 tonnes of steel. That's an angel in terms of annual savings and I'm not even counting things such as savings in power on the conveyor belt moving and templates and fixtures due to less weight in motion.
And the demand for OE is also photocopied component suppliers all of which use thinner and thinner panels to component, suggests the kind steelmaker.
I was at that point in time discussed the issue with the editor magazine where she worked as a test of bicycles and free rubber. My idea was simple - remove the back doors of a car model 2001 and 1998. Remove plastic, rubber and the window and lock mechanisms until all that remains is a sandwich of interior and exterior panels. Now measure the thickness with Dauge screw for differences in thickness between 1998 and 2001. Voila! Even called the operation as "fixing the car manufacturers with a screw gauge. "
However, my editor, blessed, obviously, with more wisdom and less balls than me, saw this as not to bother screwing, but at the same time all the manufacturers and the advertising revenue dried. "Why do not you go to a bullet proof?" was his reply.
Speaking of steel, I have not finished yet. Look out for my next post, perhaps later today.
About the Author
Deepesh Rathore
Research Editor
deepesh.rathore@supplierbusiness.com
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