Knowledge: Automotive

Fasteners and bolted joints quite literally hold automotive designs, assemblies and the resulting completed vehicle together. So, a complete understanding of how they perform is essential to drive innovation, improve quality and safety and introduce production efficiencies in the automotive sector. Each of these aspects contributes to the competitive advantage of automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Fastener manufacturers who understand how their products can contribute to creating competitive advantage and can develop new fasteners to meet car makers’ needs can better serve their automotive OEM customers. Vibrationmaster’s Morten Schiff and REC solutions in fastening technology’s Bernhard Reck explain how automotive OEMs apply static and dynamic fastener and bolted joint testing methodologies to drive product, quality, safety and process improvements.

The fortunes of the fastener sector correlate directly with its largest single consumer, the automotive industry. Motor vehicle production growth in turn offers growth opportunities for fastener manufacturers. But where can those opportunities be found? Despite the economic downturn, global motor vehicle production surpassed 80m vehicles in 2011, an increase of 3% when compared to […]