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to eliminate the cost of producing two parts that must
be secondarily bonded. The large, horizontal, highly
visible part demanded high quality and surface aesthetics.
Success there, the three collaborators say, indicates that
SMC will be the technology of choice for many new car
series to come.
The group's SMC decklid efforts date back to 1999,
when the complex production process, early on, was less
consistent than desirable and scrap rates were erratic
and sometimes high. This led to a program, now more
than a decade in duration, to improve SMC parts and
broaden the scope of SMC application. Since then, about
5 million data points have been collected at various
points along the process chain and evaluated with data
mining tools during the manufacture of close to 10,000
parts. Based on an analysis of the data correlating to the
parts with the best properties, six factors were identified
that most strongly influence part quality. They are identi-
fied in the full article presented at the conference, which
can be can be found at the following link: static.aliancys.
com/pictures-cases/daimler/smc-technology-4.0-sep-
2-2016-vdi--english.pdf.
Learn more about SMC and its history
here: www.compositesworld.com/columns/
automotive-smc-the-wheel-comes-full-circle(2).
Watch a YouTube video about how SMC is made, from
the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME, Dearborn,
MI, US), at www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Q6NbOpzSw
European SMC Innovations