The Forward Way – learning and growing from challenges.
The industry is undergoing a structural change that requires new products. We want to accompany you on this exciting path and are an experienced partner in mastering the challenges of the future. We help to shape the challenges with new materials, disruptive design approaches and production approaches. An excerpt of our standardised service offers gives an insight into our way of working. Our goal is to work with you to reduce uncertainty and learn quickly to bring successful products to market.
TESTING
Material Development and Validation for Future Mobility Applications.
The challenge is qualifying application appropriate materials for new and emerging electric vehicle applications, whether on-road, off-road or in the air.
- Engineers require an expanded toolbox of qualified materials and manufacturing technologies to support next generation vehicles, sub-systems and components
- The pace and complexity of these new applications requires an innovative and responsive partner to develop/apply, execute and analyze material performance under a range of relevant application use and mis-use cases
The FE approach:
- Translating system level performance to component, plaque and material level requirements provides a pathway to quickly and efficiently screen new materials
- Building on our work developing the BOX TRA HVBE Material Screening Program (codified as UL2596) our team of material and application experts is uniquely capable of selecting and/or developing application specific material screening programs for your targeted applications
- A global network of testing partners enables us to deliver critical results quickly in the region that is relevant to you and your customers
Our experience across a broad range of material systems (Thermoset, Thermoplastic, Continuous/Discontinuous, Metallic, Active/Passive, etc.) combined with our hands on collaborative approach provides you the direct insights and results you and your customers require
MATERIAL IMPLEMENTATION
A proven stage gated approach for concurrent product and market development.
The challenge for new materials and technologies is identifying and prioritizing commercially attractive applications and overcoming the barriers to their adoption.
- For a material or technology to gain traction, it must be clear what applications offer the greatest technical and commercial benefits and where the value proposition is clearly better than the incumbent solutions
- For each application family, the barriers to adoption along the product development cycle and, up and down the value chain, must be clearly identified and strategies to overcome them must be developed and implemented
- Successful adoption of a new material or technology requires the right mix of design, material, and process which, by definition, requires the cooperation of a mix of stakeholders up and down the value chain.
The FE approach:
- A stage gated program, providing insights early and often at every point in the program, to allow the team to efficiently manage resources based on market feedback
- A collaborative program in which there is regular interaction between you, the project team and industry stakeholders
- Objective analysis of the targeted application segments and regions together with an analysis of the benchmark performance against incumbent competing and alternate materials/technologies provides a clear landscape of potentially attractive applications early in the process
- Leveraging the initial technical and commercial analysis the team can objectively down-select to the most attractive applications to highlight the value proposition of the material/technology
- The technical analysis includes a barriers analysis with stakeholder engagement support to evaluate the potential barriers to market adoption and identify candidate collaboration partners to accelerate market adoption
- With a focus on attractive applications that resonate with industry stakeholders the team prepares a compelling virtual demonstrator to effectively present to the market the unique value proposition of the material/technology
- The focused and engaged approach provides a resource efficient program for effective concurrent product and market development
