Development Support
From the idea to series production: As a supplier to the commercial vehicle, agricultural machinery and construction machinery industries, HÖRMANN Automotive faces the daily challenge of industrialising new tools and processes for the production of its components. Efficient and targeted project management helps us to meet cost and time targets and provide our customers with the best possible support throughout the product development process. We focus on digitising the product development process as far as possible, particularly with regard to the safeguarding and optimisation of series processes. By working closely with our customers, we can use our technological expertise to help them optimise the design of components in terms of costs and technological feasibility. In doing so, we build on a broad network consisting of internal Group expertise, external service providers and universities.
We support our customers in large parts of the product development process as part of their development projects:
- Method Development
- Project Management
- Implementation of optimised technological approaches
This early involvement in the product development process offers decisive advantages: Based on our extensive technological and methodological expertise, we help our customers to optimise their component design in line with existing production restrictions. This leads to cost-optimised solutions for a given component design and reduces valuable time in the subsequent industrialisation process.
1. Method Development
Based on our technological expertise, we are able to take over the component design and development for you to meet your specific requirements. To do this, we also draw on the group-internal synergies of HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering, which provides consistent CAE chains and expertise in the area of component design and analysis.
As part of development, we take into account production-related restrictions and potential savings or improvements in order to optimise your product and the underlying process both with regard to costs and feasibility. We can thus plan the quality you request.
2. Project Management
Based on the desired component design and the technological process design, we take over component realisation and the associated project management for you up to and including series production.
To do this, we draw on our own resources for tool design and our own toolmaker’s shops as well as on an extensive international network of service providers and toolmakers. Based on our technological and methodological expertise, we guarantee the originally planned quality.
3. Implementation of optimised technological approaches
We support you in the realisation of your products via targeted enhancement of our technologies. For this purpose, we rely on the broad range of technologies covered by our locations and on technological innovations from our advanced product development. Decisive drivers here are the processing of lightweight materials, process integration and cost effectiveness. We achieve this by working in an ecosystem consisting of suppliers and universities by means of which our technologies undergo permanent enhancement.
