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Not the Delorean Revisited: An Assessment of the Competitive Position of a Stainless Steel Body-in-White
Technical Paper
1999-01-3239
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Autokinetics is a Rochester Hills MI design firm working with Armco, a supplier of stainless steel. Together, they have developed an architecture that replaces the traditional stamped and spot welded steel unibody with a novel stainless steel spaceframe architecture.
- Fabrication
- Rollformings
- Thin wall castings
- Progressive die stampings
- Plastic support and exterior panels
- Assembly- Spot, laser, and MIG welding
Relative to conventional steel unibodies, the Autokinetics spaceframe architecture offers a number of projected advantages.
- Substantial mass reduction
- Increased safety
- Improved ride and NVH
- More flexible packaging
- Lower lifecycle impact
- Potential for paint shop elimination
The obvious question that arises, and the one that this paper will answer, is: How does the Autokinetics spaceframe architecture compete on cost?
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Dieffenbach, J., "Not the Delorean Revisited: An Assessment of the Competitive Position of a Stainless Steel Body-in-White," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-3239, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-3239.Data Sets - Support Documents
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