Josef Saberi has over 25 years of experience in mechanical engineering. He has worked at several automotive companies including DAF Trucks, Volvo Cars, Ford Motor Company, and Viro Engineering in roles involving research engineering, advanced engineering, project management, quality control, and product development. He holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering and has extensive experience in fields like thermo-fluid dynamics, strength of materials, simulation, and design.
Developing Commercial Vehicles Inspired by NatureAltair
As Germany's largest independent engineering partner to the worldwide automotive industry, EDAG is continuously seeking for new technologies and innovative processes to streamline vehicle development. EDAG has a profound expertise in integrated development and the optimization of vehicles, production facilities, derivatives, and modules. To meet fuel efficiency and emission reduction goals, structurally efficient lightweight designs are demanded in the development of passenger cars and commercial vehicles alike. To fulfill customer demands and to deliver lighter and yet fully functional and validated components in shorter time, EDAG is leveraging its engineering knowledge to combine state-of-the-art computer aided engineering tools, in this case Altair's OptiStruct, with new production technologies such as additive manufacturing. OptiStruct enabled the EDAG engineers to design lightweight and, by being inspired by nature, yet stiff structures of a cabin and a chassis. The components were then manufactured using additive manufacturing methods. To find the optimal solution for the final design the engineers later also conducted multi-physical optimizations, combining strength and crash demands of the vehicle, using an equivalent linear approach. The entire development and manufacturing process for the cabin and chassis structures will be subject of this presentation, showing how a combination of topology optimization and additive manufacturing leads to lighter and stiffer products. The project is a prime example of how mature CAE technology can be adjusted and used in combination with new manufacturing methods to introduce revolutionary structural enhancements within the transportation sector.
Speakers
Andreas Pfeiffer, Development Engineer, EDAG
Industry engineering process evolves from Hardware based development to Digital based development. This process innovation increases efficiency, reduces development period, and enhances product quality. CAE's responsibility increases and encounter high demand from design engineering, test, styling, and upper management.
How CAE can meet the expectations and can evolve to be the core functionality in development process?
Speakers
Dr. Byungsik Kang, Vice President, Hyundai Kia Motors
Optimization Culture Arena at Volvo Car GroupAltair
CAE has been used for a long time in the vehicle industry. It has been an efficient method for replacing expensive physical testing and predicting the performance of a component, system or complete model. This process has been supported by a rapid increase of computer power. CAE methods for replacing physical testing will continue to develop, however a shift in focus and application of CAE methods for the early development phases can be seen in the vehicle industry. This indicates a trend to a more CAE and knowledge driven development. This will put high demands of development of CAE methods and tools to drive the design. Some key areas for this is efficient use of e.g. topology, thickness and material optimization, performance balancing, etc.
To support this shift to more upfront CAE an “Optimization Culture Arena” has been launched at Volvo Car Group. This arena is a cross technical network for knowledge sharing and optimization competence development at VCG that consist of people from CAE, attribute areas, design, testing, technical specialists, academy etc. The arena function is to support implementation of an optimization driven culture and support development of guidelines and methods regarding optimization. The arena is supported by a knowledge hub to spread latest news and planned activities and also handle a competence matrix to support exchange of knowledge. A geographic area will serve as a place to meet, get support and share good examples of CAE driven development.
Speakers
Harald Hasselblad, Senior Analysis Engineer, VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
Developing Commercial Vehicles Inspired by NatureAltair
As Germany's largest independent engineering partner to the worldwide automotive industry, EDAG is continuously seeking for new technologies and innovative processes to streamline vehicle development. EDAG has a profound expertise in integrated development and the optimization of vehicles, production facilities, derivatives, and modules. To meet fuel efficiency and emission reduction goals, structurally efficient lightweight designs are demanded in the development of passenger cars and commercial vehicles alike. To fulfill customer demands and to deliver lighter and yet fully functional and validated components in shorter time, EDAG is leveraging its engineering knowledge to combine state-of-the-art computer aided engineering tools, in this case Altair's OptiStruct, with new production technologies such as additive manufacturing. OptiStruct enabled the EDAG engineers to design lightweight and, by being inspired by nature, yet stiff structures of a cabin and a chassis. The components were then manufactured using additive manufacturing methods. To find the optimal solution for the final design the engineers later also conducted multi-physical optimizations, combining strength and crash demands of the vehicle, using an equivalent linear approach. The entire development and manufacturing process for the cabin and chassis structures will be subject of this presentation, showing how a combination of topology optimization and additive manufacturing leads to lighter and stiffer products. The project is a prime example of how mature CAE technology can be adjusted and used in combination with new manufacturing methods to introduce revolutionary structural enhancements within the transportation sector.
Speakers
Andreas Pfeiffer, Development Engineer, EDAG
Industry engineering process evolves from Hardware based development to Digital based development. This process innovation increases efficiency, reduces development period, and enhances product quality. CAE's responsibility increases and encounter high demand from design engineering, test, styling, and upper management.
How CAE can meet the expectations and can evolve to be the core functionality in development process?
Speakers
Dr. Byungsik Kang, Vice President, Hyundai Kia Motors
Optimization Culture Arena at Volvo Car GroupAltair
CAE has been used for a long time in the vehicle industry. It has been an efficient method for replacing expensive physical testing and predicting the performance of a component, system or complete model. This process has been supported by a rapid increase of computer power. CAE methods for replacing physical testing will continue to develop, however a shift in focus and application of CAE methods for the early development phases can be seen in the vehicle industry. This indicates a trend to a more CAE and knowledge driven development. This will put high demands of development of CAE methods and tools to drive the design. Some key areas for this is efficient use of e.g. topology, thickness and material optimization, performance balancing, etc.
To support this shift to more upfront CAE an “Optimization Culture Arena” has been launched at Volvo Car Group. This arena is a cross technical network for knowledge sharing and optimization competence development at VCG that consist of people from CAE, attribute areas, design, testing, technical specialists, academy etc. The arena function is to support implementation of an optimization driven culture and support development of guidelines and methods regarding optimization. The arena is supported by a knowledge hub to spread latest news and planned activities and also handle a competence matrix to support exchange of knowledge. A geographic area will serve as a place to meet, get support and share good examples of CAE driven development.
Speakers
Harald Hasselblad, Senior Analysis Engineer, VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE)’s Toyota I_Site service has been proven to drive down costs in material handling operations.
As well as increasing productivity the Toyota I_Site was responsible for reducing Carreras’ expenditure on forklifts by 57%.
The Carreras Group, an international logistics company, has been testing out the service for two years. After achieving positive results they now plan to implement it at all of the company warehouses.
To find out more about the Toyota I_Site, visit: http://www.toyota-forklifts.eu/en/services-and-solutions/Toyota-I-Site/Pages/ToyotaI-Site.aspx
Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE)’s Toyota I_Site service has been proven to drive down costs in material handling operations.
As well as increasing productivity the Toyota I_Site was responsible for reducing Carreras’ expenditure on forklifts by 57%.
The Carreras Group, an international logistics company, has been testing out the service for two years. After achieving positive results they now plan to implement it at all of the company warehouses.
To find out more about the Toyota I_Site, visit: http://www.toyota-forklifts.eu/en/services-and-solutions/Toyota-I-Site/Pages/ToyotaI-Site.aspx
Tooltech Global Engineering Pvt. Ltd, one of the first Indian Companies to set up operations in Scandinavia, is a leading Engineering Design and Simulation solutions provider serving marquee European clients.
New HyperWorks Pedestrian Impact Tool for vehicle engineering and CAE simulationAltair
The engineering challenges according to the pedestrian safety requirements have an important impact on the vehicle development time line and on vehicle design. The different pedestrian safety regulations that a vehicle has to fulfill (legal (ECE, GTR…) or consumer (EuroNCAP)) represent a high number of impact points that have to be defined depending on the regulation protocol. For each impact point, a FEM simulation has to be performed in order to evaluate the overall pedestrian protection performances. The integration of this process into an innovative virtual prototyping method needs a CAE tool allowing the automatic definition of the impact points and the automatic generation of ready-to-run FE models for impact simulation. Moreover, pedestrian requirements have a direct influence on vehicle design. That’s the reason why, an automatic definition of the impact points based on CAD design surfaces is a key to allow engineering judgment and design changes in the early phase of the vehicle development. The new HyperWorks Pedestrian Impact Tool, developed by Altair Engineering in cooperation with the Ford of Europe Pedestrian Protection Team, offers a perfect solution to these challenges. During the presentation, an overview of the tool capabilities will be given as well as results of an application on a Ford vehicle model.
Speakers
Dany Tapigue, Engineer, Ford Werke GmbH
1. Josef Saberi 12-12-14
MSc. Mechanical Engineer
Work:
DAF Trucks N.V.
Hugo vd Goeslaan 1
5643 TW, Eindhoven The Netherlands
E-mail: Josef.saberi@daftrucks.com
E-mail: jsaberi@kpnmail.nl
Brief summary of work experience
- Research engineer in NVH
- Advanced engineering strength of materials :Altair Hyperworks, Nastran, ABAQUS,
Matlab
- Advanced engineering thermo-fluid dynamic: CD-Adapco: CCM+, RadTherm
- Project management
- Product launch (Automotive)
- Quality (DFSS-Black Belt, APQP, PPAP)
- Requirement setting (Engine installation systems)
Working experience countriesoutside of home country(Sweden)
- Volvo Cars Corporation: Exaptriate to The Netherlands1997 to 2001
- Volvo Cars Corporation: Exaptriate to Germany 2001 to 2006
- Volvo Cars Corporation: Exaptriate to Belgium 2006 to 2007
- Viro Engineering: The Netherlands: 2007 to 2008
- DAF Trucks BV: The Netherlands 2008 until current time
FormalEducation
- Mechanical Engineering MSc.
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1987-1991
- Control automatic, Mathematical modeling and simulation
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1991-1992
- Stochastically load distribution
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1991-1992
- Design for Six sigma, Certified 6Sigma Black Belt
Volvo Cars, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2006-2007
- Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified
Ford Motor Company, John Andrew's development Centre, Köln, Germany, 2006
- Design for sound quality
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, 1997
2. - Application of virtual reality as a design method in automotive engineering
Virtual Reality Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1995
Work experiences
DAF Trucks BV., Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2010-current
POSITION: Technical Specialist and DFSS Black Belt
- Responsibilities:
o Advanced engineering strength of materials (Altair Hyperworks, Nastran,
ABAQUS, Matlab)
o Advanced engineering thermo-fluid dynamic (CD-Adapco: CCM+,
RadTherm)
o Technical support and advice of engine installation team (Air intake,
Exhaust, Cooling, Intarder, PTO, Engine mounts, Noise encapsulation and
gear shift systems)
o DFSS, input and review
o Support of team with resolving FRACAS concerns
o Review and analysis suppliers technical reports
o GRPA, input and review
DAF Trucks BV., Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2010-current
POSITION: Technical Specialist and DFSS Black Belt
- Responsibilities:
o Implementing of DFSS procedure in engine installation department
o Advanced engineering thermo-fluid dynamic (CD-Adapco: CCM+,
RadTherm)
o Implementing of APQP process in Engine Installation Department
o System requirement setting
o Support of team with resolving of the field and production concerns
o Review and evaluation of suppliers technical reports
o Supervising of student for Dipl. Eng. In process mapping
VIRO Engineering, Echt, The Netherlands, 2007-2008
POSITION: Development engineer
Volvo Cars Corporation, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007
POSITION: Principal Engineer
3. Volvo Cars Corporation, Gent, Belgium, 2006-2007
POSITION: Project manager Power-train Medium Car Platform
- Responsibilities:
o Review and analysis of warranty data, market concerns, and product
follow-up information
o Run 8D process for defined heavy item issues
o Set up implementation plan for interim and permanent solutions
o Cost, time and quality control of containment and final solutions
o Review and optimizing of the production process from cost and quality point
of view
o Synchronizing and implementation of design changes in production plant
o Running 6 Sigma projects on heavy item with high impact on customer
satisfaction
o Manufacturing process controls of supplier’s JIT plants
o Design review, PFMEA, PPAP and Launch readiness review at supplier
o Launch support within the responsibility area
Volvo Cars Corporation/ Ford Motor Company, John Andrew's Development Centre,
Köln, Germany, 2003-2006
POSITION: Local office manager, Medium Car Platform
- Responsibilities:
o Cooling systems, heat protection systems, air intake and exhaust systems
from design to industrialization
Volvo Cars Corporation/ Ford Motor Company, John Andrew's Development Centre,
Köln, Germany, 2001-2003
POSITION: Volvo Cars Brand Leader of Medium Car Platform
- Responsibilities:
o Cooling systems, heat protection systems, air intake and exhaust systems
from design to industrialization
o Analysis and sign-off of advanced engineering reports
o Analysis and sign-off of verification tests
o Lead the target agreement process with suppliers
o Lead the design review with suppliers and R&D
o Design verification planning
o Cost control management
o Lead the quality control as robustness and reliability control, DFMEA, APQP
o Manage the deliverables according program milestones as Production Try-
Out, Try-Out and Start of production
o Launch readiness review at suppliers
Volvo Cars Netherlands, NedCar, Helmond, The Netherlands, 1997-2001
POSITION: Principal engineer
- Responsibilities:
o Advanced engineering, Supporting of design groups with Thermo-fluid
dynamics and noise analysis
4. Volvo Cars Corporation, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1995-1997
POSITION: Principal engineer
- Responsibilities:
o Thermo-fluid dynamics analysis and Computation fluid dynamics, Engine
Simulation (1D CFD code WAVE) for noise predictions
Special honors
- Entry into the Marquis "Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2003 "
Additionalprofessionalactivities
- Lectures in fundamentals of acoustics for employees at Ford Motor Company, Köln,
Germany ,2001
- Supervising of students from Charmers University of Technology for their M.Sc.
thesis (Two different jobs in Vibration and material fields), Volvo Cars, Gothenburg,
Sweden, 1996-1997
- Lectures for employees of Volvo Cars Service in Sweden and Italy in the field
quality and design philosophy 1996 and 2004
Patents
- WO2013137721, Application number 13720095.2 (The international publication has
been made): DAF Trucks N.V., Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 2013, Title: “Truck
Provided with A Device for lowering the temperature of the exhaust gas”
“https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP13720095”
- WO1999025962A1: Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2003, Title,
“Device and method for a sound-attenuating unit”,
- WO-9925962, Registered International Patent: Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg,
Sweden, Title: “Self-control variable device for reduction of the radiated noise from
tail pipe of exhaust systems”, 1996-1997
SpecialHonors
- Registered in the Marquis "Who's Who in Science and Engineering", 2003
- Awarded by chassis department of Volvo Car for outstanding work at Ford
Development Centre, Köln, Germany, 2002
Languages
- Swedish, English (Fluent)
- Dutch (intermediate)
- German (beginner)