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We have found that despite the worldwide recession that the engineering sector has remained relatively strong in our portfolio. We have some unique new opportunities in both automotive engineering and aeronautics in Germany:

General Manager Germany

Coberon Chronos Consulting’s client is a global provider of engineering services and solutions. They have some fantastic new roles in Germany at this time.

Job Description Take control of the general management of the operations in the country. You will take charge of: • Existing client portfolio and the seeking of new commercial partnership opportunities. • The management and development of the team in Germany and motivate them towards ambitious objectives. • The definition and the implementation of the growth strategy of your country (external as well as organic growth) and guaranteeing your territory’s economic performance. • Take an active part in the definition of the general strategy of the International Division and guarantee that your zone comprehensively complies with this strategy in terms of results, objectives, ambitions and identity.

Skill Required

Academic education in a school of engineering, with professional experience of approximately 10 to 15 years in the world of automotive engineering services and/or in the industry as a manager and market developer. • Experience in hiring team members. • Experience in managing engineering projects. • Automotive product design experience. • Show creativity, autonomy and focused on results. You can moreover affect the decision-making process. • Using English as a professional language daily, you also speak fluent German. Excellent benefits! For these and other engineering career opportunites please free to contact us via engineering@chronosconsulting.com

Dr Simon Harding

www.chronosconsulting.com

New product development and innovation is much more difficult and time consuming than most other business activities. Automotive rapid prototyping greatly enhances learning speed and reduces the risk of new automotive parts development.

Historically, the automotive industry has been using rapid prototyping as an important tool in the automotive parts design process. The extremely fast-paced automotive design cycles require an extremely fast prototyping system which can produce car parts fast and inexpensively.

The main objective of automotive prototyping is to learn quickly: how a new automotive product behaves in its natural working environment, before transferring the prototype to the production line. Many times, mistakes are learned only after a new automotive part is launched. This is the main explanation for poor automotive parts design, from product mismatch, poor engineering and function or finish, and overpriced production. In order to accelerate the learning curve, before these costly automotive prototyping mistakes are made, one must accelerate and facilitate feedback loops from tests in the lab and market trials.

Automotive Manufacturing Technologies

Working with an assortment of rapid prototyping equipment, automotive prototyping engineers utilize the most advanced 3D printers, in their quest for perfect form, function and utility. Working in advanced manufacturing centers, the automotive engineers use the technology to verify what they are doing, and, equally important, to save tremendous amounts of time, and money.

Automotive Rapid Prototyping Compresses Development Time

The advantages of using 3D rapid prototyping model creation versus viewing a cad/cam model on a computer screen are palpable. Automotive parts engineers get together discuss the pros and cons of a rapidly produced automotive parts model and discuss the pros and cons of the design, as they pass it around, twisting and viewing the prototype, and decide if that is what they had in mind. This way, problems get solved up front, before going to the assembly line! Once determined that the automotive prototype design is a go, the model can then be sent to a die maker.

Automotive Prototyping and the Die Maker Process

The die maker cannot use model to make the die, but because they have it in their hand and can look at it and feel it, they can determine where the parting lines will be and exactly how much steel they will need to produce it. The timing of the die process is greatly compressed.

Examples of Automotive Rapid Prototype Parts

· Car Engine parts

· Engine castings and parts

· Auto Body Components

· Auto Mechanical parts

· Car Dashboards

· Car Handles and Knobs

· Car Trim parts

Fail first Paradox in Automotive Rapid Prototyping

The automotive rapid prototyping paradox is to fail earlier rather than later. By failing earlier, the design engineers surprisingly succeed in accelerating the project; this greatly reduces development cost risk. By considering all automotive prototype failures as learning experiments, the engineer has much less stress, knowing that they are practicing the old adage, that success comes from ninety-nine percent failure and introspection.