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General Motors Honors Engineers Innovation Award
General Motors has announced June 12 the winners of the annual "Boss" Kettering awards, one of the success of GM's most prestigious engineering. Sixty-eight award winners from thirteen teams are ready to be recognized at a ceremony on Tuesday, 26 June, the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan
The "Boss" Kettering GM prices are the highest internal recognition for technical innovation. Named in honor of Charles F. GM's "Boss" Kettering, the first head of GM Research and development laboratories and more than 140 patents, the award recognizes individuals worldwide whose outstanding inventions and innovations have demonstrated technological leadership and identifiable benefit to General Motors during the previous year.
"Boss Kettering Price Winners have a unique and important role in our successful company," said Jim Queen, GM group vice president, Global Engineering. " As stretch thinkers and drivers of innovation, serving as a model for GM around the world, showing the spirit, determination and commitment necessary to pave the way into the 21st century. "
The winners of this year show the emphasis on the use of genetic modification technology to improve the experience overall customer vehicle, vehicle safety, reduce the time of a product at the forefront of the market and increase production efficiency.
Prize 2006 "Boss" Kettering winners
(Source: GM)
DESIGN-belt tensioner alternator-starter
The BAS hybrid account with a dual mode Belt-Alternator Starter Tensioner that ensures the belt tension in all hybrid operating modes. This innovative "industry system first design optimizes the belt tension and all bearing loads at significantly reduced manufacturing cost.
Winner: Paul McVicar and Cynthia Thurston GM Powertrain Product Engineering.
CARGO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
The unique modular cargo management utilizes three fasteners to hold a GM pickup trucks full size. The system does not add weight or additional costs on the vehicle and can be added to the assembly plant of grant, or as a replacement product.
Winner: Brian Jutila from GMNA Product Development.
EMULATION FOR VIRTUAL VALIDATION PLC
The Emulation for Virtual Validation of Controller Logic offers engineers the ability to validate controls logic in a virtual environment, minimizing the validation logic controller virtual technology removes the validation process of a product launch critical path, plan for future support to the key strategy.
Winners: Leandro Barajas, Stephan Biller, Fangming Gu, and Yuan Chengyin GM search and development, and Dan Aufderheide, Jeff Byrnes, Gabriel DeMarco, Mark Emeott, Wood Gerald Gurian and Demet controls, conveyors, robotic welding and fabrication Genius.
REAR DOOR PICKUP Cab 170 degrees
This innovative invention allows the rear door of the vehicle are almost flat on the truck body with 170 degrees of rotation, increasing accessibility the vehicle. The present invention utilizes a hidden hinge system improves the appearance of the vehicle.
Winner: Brad Pietryga GMNA Product Development.
INNOVATIVE CURTAIN inflatable cushion system with the new setting CONCEPT
This system uses air bag accessory new "industry first" clips which enable significant cost savings. The application of this technology meets the safety requirements of GM vehicles and supports the EuroNCAP rating 5 – Star for this product.
Winners: Frank Buenos Aires Province, Matthias Brunner, and Johannes Diehl from GM PE inflatable restraint systems, flyers, and labels; Waldemar systems Medler of vehicles for GM Europe, GM and Benjamin De Buysscher Belgium NV / Manufacturing Engineering.
TOOLBOX DEVELOPMENT FOR GM Powertrain MAINTENANCE PLANTS
The Maintenance Toolbox is real-time decision support tool plant that provides alerts priorities for maintenance, maintenance opportunity Preventive notification window, performance analysis, priority lists, no machine components based on the total cost method, and uses techniques predictive maintenance to optimize preventive maintenance intervals. The system allows the identification of machine components that have the greatest impact assessment the costs of failure frequency, downtime and component cost, facilitating maximum production rate.
Winners: Venkat Ram Dwibhashyam GM Powertrain Manufacturing Engineering; Basel Shadid from the GM Powertrain St. Catharine's Engine Plant; Leandro Barajas, Stephan Biller, Qing Chang, and Xiao from GMNA Guoxi Research and Development and Pulak Bandyopadhyay from GM Research and Development – Spain.
MATH TESTS powertrain calibration function and
The test of basic math and Powertrain calibration process creates a "virtual test cell" from limited test data produce significantly improved powertrain calibration. Using this method produces calibrations that fully optimize fuel economy, performance and quality. This technology provides a means to reduce product to market as possible, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction by improving performance of his train.
Winners: Julian Blair, Xu Han, William Howell, Pochuan Hsing, Joseph Kelly, Uday Korde, Rohit Paranjpe, and Xinyu Zhou of GM Powertrain Product Engineering, and Jones, Donald GMNA Development products.
OnStar Vehicle Diagnostics
The vehicle diagnostic system from OnStar improves customer satisfaction and improved security vehicles using a unique set of algorithms to collect key information. With this information, OnStar sends an e-mail personally to inform customers of their vehicle maintenance status. Additionally, GM engineers utilize the data to detect and resolve problems that may arise during the life cycle the vehicle.
Winners: John Correia, Walter Dorfstatter, Chester Huber, Neelie Laghrari Kapralos, Fahd, Shane McCutchen, Christopher Oesterling, Steven Ross, and OnStar Steven Samolinski.
Park Assist / Rear OVERLAY SUBJECT video
This innovative invention is an integration of Rear Vision and Ultrasonic Rear Parking Assist which is designed to warn drivers of objects behind the vehicle. It has a visual "caution" symbol that improves significantly to customer satisfaction and safety.
Winners: Charles Green and Kent Lybeck GMNA Product Development.
END rear carrier "FIX FLEX"
The present invention extends the capacity of conventional vehicle to the rear exterior. The loading platform is the body fully integrated rear end design space using the base. The invention allows the vehicle to extend load capacity without interfering with the maneuverability of the vehicle or compaction.
Winners: Ralf Bechtold and Frank Leopold from the GM Vehicle Architecture and Innovation Center, Hendrick Hofmann from GM PE blank background and Heiko Sven Weinfurtner Oetting GM Europe Adam Opel and GM Europe Uhlendorf Thomas Reuse Management.
Robot Data Extraction and Validation Tool
The Robot Data Extraction and Validation Tool is a robust method of data analysis focused on the use of data from the robot assembly plant automatically validate manufacturing design intent. The plant record of the efficiency of the tool and improves the quality of the welding Verification to reconcile the differences between engineering design intent and actual implementation factory. Verification Welding is a critical process in maintaining safety and structural integrity of the vehicle.
Winners: Eric Carlson, Laurie Francis Ann Krentz, Brian Miller, Assolime Atiya-Santy, James Singer, and Gary Snavely from GM Manufacturing Engineering; Menassa Roland and Jane Shi from GM Research and Development.
DETECTION misfire State Compensation
misfire detection state offers a novel approach for detecting offset Misfiring math. This invention enabled the detection of misfire in high performance engines without adding significant cost or hardware for the engine.
Winners: Tameem Assaf, David Mathews, and David St. Pierre from GM Powertrain Engineering Product.
TRANSITION CONTROL FOR ENGINE STOP-STARTS
These inventions enable the Belt-Alternator-Starter (BAS) hybrid motor has superior stop-starts and associated low-speed drive control, while achieving excellent fuel economy. The inventions make possible a simple system under reduces the cost hybrid interrupt-related start-stop motor and is essential for the quality of vehicle performance.
Winners: William III Aldrich, Birendra Bhattarai Donald Crites, Tony Hoang, Goro Tamai, James Worthing and Mark Zerbini from GM Powertrain Product Engineering.
General Motors, also Manufacturer of quality GMC Sonoma parts, created the "Boss" Kettering award in 1976 Charles F. Kettering on the anniversary of the researchers acknowledge '100ème GM scientists and engineers in new and bold ideas and contributions.
