By MONICA PEREZ
Copley News Service
To bring a new car to market
takes up to five years and encom-
passes the broadest range of skills
and talents found anywhere. Most
new automotive products originate
as part of a long-range plan, based
on forecasts for future needs in
transportation.
Following is a summary of how a
car is “born’’ based on a report on
the manufacture of Chrysler Corp.’s
Le Baron GTS and Dodge Lancer.
To begin, marketing experts and
types of people will make up the
biggest segment of the automobile
market in the future. Whether they
decide this will be baby boomers,
senior citizens or families will help
define what characteristics a car
should have to be sold during that
time.
Once the desired characteristics -
such as roominess, quietness, econ-
omy and aerodynamic styling - have
been prioritized, designers develop
specifications for the car and make
preliminary decisions on size,
width, height, length and wheelbase
- thus defining the ‘‘package.’”’ Prod-
uct engineers then submit recom-
mendations on engines, transmis-
sions and equipment to support the
overall vehicle objectives.
As soon as the car begins to take
form, product and manufacturing
engineers examine the data and
report on the practicality of building
the car according to proposed speci-
fications. Cost studies determine if
the car can be produced at an
affordable price for its targeted
market.
The complete car package - port-
folio of facts, figures, market
research reports, cost estimates,
charts, diagrams and sketches - has
to be approved by corporate man-
agement and then the development
of the actual design, detailed engi-
neering and styling can begin.
Stylists draw hundreds of
sketches of the basic car and its
components and from these they
develop design ideas and various
themes. The best ideas then are
sketched in greater detail and con-
verted to full-scale tape drawings.
These are done with special black
tape on boards as high and wide as
the actual car. The technique pro-
vides the first full-view perspective,
and the removable tape strip allows
for easy changing of lines to achieve
the best aesthetic results.
The next step, clay models, pro-
vide the first three-dimensionalper-
spective of the new product. Mean-
while, interior designers develop
ideas for instrument panels, seats,
various hardware and other interior
parts. . *
Designers then convert two of the
clay models selected to full-scale
fiberglass models.
During each step designers and
engineers use complex computer
systems that enable engineers or
draftsmen sitting at graphics ter-
minals to make precise, elaborate
and detailed drawings of any piece
of machinery or part. Furthermore,
designers can analyze and test com-
ponents they design right before
their eyes. They can pull drawings
apart, render them in three dimen-
sions or in solid forms, enlarge
details, apply colors, change shapes
and viewing angles and subject
them to electronically simulated
temperature changes, mechanical
stresses and other real-life condi-
tions.
from these studies have been made,
the car is recast in fiberglass for
final review. With this approval,
task - building a prototype, a hand-
made working model of the new
car.
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An automatic welding system uses computer-controlled
robots to weld components in the body structures of
Chrysler LeBaron GTS and Dodge Lancer automobiles.
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