How to measure?
What are reasons for dissatisfaction?
Vehicle Security
Resistance to attack
Door locks ,storage area, alarm systems 5 minutes.
Immobilisers 20 minutes.
Window glass 2 minutes
Avoid moving crime focus from the vehicle to the individual
Noise
Road traffic reduction of 3 dBA from 1998 levels
Road traffic reduction of 4 dBA from 1998 levels
Road traffic reduction of 6 dBA from 1998 levels. Homologated noise reduction of 4dBA and 8dBA respectively for light and heavy vehicles
Maintain noise characteristics over vehicle life.
Customer Expectation
Top of range technologies in entry level vehicles e.g. collision avoidance
Rapid development of low cost systems.
Perceived value of environment, safety technologies
Freedom of customer choice.
24 months for completely new.
18 months for significant carry-over
Significant reduction in number of late engineering changes
18 months for completely new.
12 months for significant carry-over.
35% reduction in new vehicle development cost cf. 2000.
Manufacturing:
30% increase in ROI
Order to delivery of bespoke vehicle 3 days, significant quality improvement.
Need for low investment vehicle programmes 10 – 50 kpa
Goods vehicle: 7 year/2Mkm life. 7 hrs/y maintenance
Safety and environmental impact higher priority than vehicle cost.
15 year/240 k km vehicle lifetime with emissions compliance
Long vehicle life mitigates against rapid take-up of new technology.
Modular incremental development capability?
Topics considered most important by the SMMT Engineering Committee
