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Monday 7th September 2020

11:00am CET | REGISTER | 11:00am ET(USA) | REGISTER

Developing Future-Ready Seating Systems That Enable Added Functionality

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  • How to reduce complexity whilst achieving ‘smart’ individualism
  • Analysing the key trends & market dynamics in next-generation advanced automotive seating
  • Investigating customer preferences and understanding their changing functional and technology expectations
  • Identifying the parameters and technologies driving next-generation advanced automotive seating systems
  • Defining the standards and requirements for future, safe, connected, versatile, predictive, intelligent seating systems

Monday 7th September 2020

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Re-Thinking Seat Utility: Redesigning Seats & Interiors To Meet A New Set Of Customer Needs

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  • Strategies for seating in a semi and fully autonomous future – is there more to it than just next-generation reconfiguration?
  • Strategies to provide flexibility in seating systems for autonomous car users
  • Seating system development concepts
  • The challenges of different and changing seat positions – rotating, reclining, folding, removable and retractable seats
  • When and how occupants might take/relinquish control of a vehicle, be permitted to change position or be compelled to return to a straight-ahead position

Tuesday 8th September 2020

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The Cockpit Of The Future: New Intelligent Seating Ecosystems

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  • Today a seat needs to keep you comfortable and safe, but tomorrow passengers will be expecting it to do much more
  • Active Wellness Concepts’ and ‘Smart Seats’ – what are they, and when will we see them in the mass market?
  • Integrating contactless sensors, infrared cameras and bluetooth to collect data on drivers physical and mental condition
  • Analyzing physiological data and applying counter measures to mitigate sickness, stress, discomfort, drowsiness and readiness to operate controls.
  • The Future of AI in Automotive Seating Systems – Translating driver condition into personalised automations

Tuesday 8th September 2020

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Advanced Safety Solutions For Next-Generation & Autonomous Vehicles: Flexible Vehicle Interiors Centred Around Reconfigurability

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  • Flexible seating and reconfigurability challenges traditional safety systems – “Dynamic Safety Repositioning” and “Adaptive Safety” as a solution? Addressing the challenges of different, and changing seat positions and seat structures
  • How to achieve safety in all seated positions – New safety systems solutions for seat belts/restraints and airbags
  • Reviewing seat development and interior configuration concepts for autonomous vehicles
  • Safety as a top priority: When and how occupants might relinquish control of the vehicle or be permitted – or prevented from changing position
  • New challenges for seat track systems for moving seats
  • Visualisation and Simulation: Best solutions in design, manufacturing, testing and simulation

Wednesday 9th September 2020

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The Drive To Cut Weight: How To Achieve The Best Material Optimisation and Value Optimisation: Combining Optimization and Modern Product Development Methods To Achieve A Lightweight Design

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  • Reviewing new materials, multi-material mix, and manufacturing processes for advanced next-generation lightweight seat structures
  • Increasing usage of lightweight and Composite Materials such as Aluminum, Magnesium, High Strength Steel (HSS) and Carbon Fibre to reduce the overall weight of seating system
  • Opportunities for metal replacement with multi-material systems
  • Reducing the number mechanisms – whilst increasing functionality
  • Examples of how OEMs have recently taken advantage of material innovation
  • How further multi-material design can unlock the limitations of conventional design

Wednesday 9th September 2020

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Seat Structures – Light Weighting And Cost Effectiveness of Advanced High Strength 3rd Gen Steels

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  • Which advanced steel options offer the best choices for seating structural systems?
  • The evolution of lightweight seat structure designs: best practice in transitioning from Internal Combustion to Electric and Autonomous seating configurations
  • Cost of light-weighting versus cost increase in technology and of battery for EV range increase
  • The mass saving premium for the various light-weighting options for automotive seat structures
  • The light weighting and cost effectiveness offered by Advanced High Strength 3rd Gen Steels applied to seat structures

Thursday 10th September 2020

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The Future Of Composites In Lightweight Seating

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  • Lightweight design
  • One step hybrid moulding process
  • Cycle time less than 60 seconds

Thursday 10th September 2020

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The Future Of Magnesium In Lightweight Seating

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  • Where are the opportunities for replacing conventional material choices with Magnesium- [Case Study] success stories
  • Features and advantages of magnesium alloys
  • Broad prospects for the development of lightweight structure materials

Friday 11th September 2020

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Testing, Inspection And Certification: Seating And Interiors Validation Opportunities

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  • Identifying and resolving gaps in testing standards
  • Closing the gap between simulation and testing

Friday 11th September 2020

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Gaining The Ergonomic Edge With Interface Pressure Technology

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  • Mitigating passenger stress factors through physiological data analysis
  • Use of latest technology integration to collect and act on data to increase passenger safety and comfort.

Monday 14th September 2020

11:00am CET | REGISTER | 11:00am ET(USA) | REGISTER

Innovative Joining Technologies To Enable Future Lightweight Seats

Dr.-Ing. Markus Wagner, Component Design / Business Unit Joining, Fraunhofer IWS Dresden, Germany

  • Lightweight design approach for future automotive seat structures
  • Multi-Material lightweight designs
  • Steel-aluminum design
  • Metal-composite design
  • Lightweight designs with steel
  • Laser welded patchwork structures
  • Local Laser-Strengthening
  • Conclusions

Monday 14th September 2020

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Will The Entire Seat Of The Future be Glued Together (Adhesive Bonding)

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  • Ensuring reliability, flexibility, insulation and sealant tolerances with adhesive bonding
  • Which professionally designed bonding processes offer the most seamless integration into series production?
  • Benefits of bonded over welded joints

Tuesday 15th September 2020

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Automotive Seating Lightweight Foam Advancements: Weight, Durability, Sustainability

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  • The future lightweighting opportunities of foam: next-generation automotive seating
  • Achieving the right blend of comfort, safety and sustainability
  • Where will we see the next innovations in foam solutions?
  • Environmental performance: Foam that eliminates harmful emissions from foam production
  • Recyclability: New geometries of materials that do not require the same traditional foams – foam alternatives
  • Low profile foam and advanced materials

Tuesday 15th September 2020

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Lightening Up Through Topology Optimisation

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  • Tools for structural design and optimisation to help with topology optimisation
  • Innovative design, materials, engineering, and manufacturing approaches
  • How topology optimisation works with additive manufacturing how topology optimisation works with additive manufacturing

Wednesday 16th September 2020

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Standardising vs Innovating Metal Structures And Mechanisms

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  • How to better leverage existing structures and mechanisms for the future?
  • Transferring advanced materials into mass production
  • Metals, Forming and Joining
  • How do you reinvent rather than carry over design: exploring new innovation in seat structure design
  • Exploring the opportunity of replacing two mechanisms with one mechanism
  • Casting innovation for seat frames: Magnesium High pressure die-casting
  • Two Mechanisms- replaced with one mechanism
  • Front-Row Architecture: Block height of the Hpoint
  • Rear Seat systems and Architecture

Wednesday 16th September 2020

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Implementation Of Industry 4.0 Protocol For Automotive Seat Manufacturing

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  • Successfully translating comfort requirements into an Industry 4.0 environment
  • Which new technologies are enabling a previously unachievable design?
  • Big Data analysis and feeding it back into design, engineering and production
  • Automation of operations, predictability and reduced scrap rates
  • Derive the most value for the opportunities that Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Promises
  • Incorporating digitalisation into your manufacturing roadmap – what are the opportunities for key players in the value chain and how does it offer a complete path to fulfilling customer expectations?
  • Collect end-consumer data and flow it back to one piece of equipment or equipment in combination with a given material
  • Automation of operations and the predictability of operations
  • Reducing scrap rates, tied to a certain link of equipment, material, supplier, time period
  • How to achieve greater flexibility to react quickly to new developments and changing requirements

Thursday 17th September 2020

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Trim and Fabrics: A “Zero Wrinkle Initiative” Reducing Thickness Whilst Maintaining Quality And Durability

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  • Exploring material solutions for cost vs quality vs weight vs thickness including thickness of inserts
  • How to increase durability and comfort without increasing cost
  • How to better towards preventing mid-project Value Optimisations
  • Removable trim covers – a feature that could become more common: especially with predictive increase in ride-sharing
  • How to match the proper lightweight frame, leather finish, pattern and grain with a vehicle segment and platform
  • Just-in-Time (JIT) assembly for automotive seat Manufacturing
  • Luxury vs seat system performance Aligned lamination, surface material, and innovation strategies to ensure best practices in product quality

Thursday 17th September 2020

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Stringent Safety Regulations: Developing Next-Generation Safe and Reliable Automotive Seats

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  • Standards And Requirements Of Future, Safe, Connected, Intelligent Seating Systems

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