CATEGORIES
We are always looking for new, creative and breakthrough ideas or concepts for products, processes, technologies, materials and applications.
This year’s challenge is already open for submission of ideas in following categories:
Cost Down
We are searching general potentials for decreasing TCO of all our Powertrain product groups by:
- Changing material
- Reducing number of components
- Improving the assembly process
- Decreasing weight
- Decreasing input
- Standardization
Transmission solutions
- Cost reduction
- Efficiency improvement
- New functionality
- Software functionality
- Actuation
- Sensors
- Integration
- Package optimization
- Electronics
- Control units and architecture
- New transmission concepts
- NVH reduction
E-Motor & Inverter
- Power density increase
- Efficiency increase
- Thermal Management improvement: cooling concepts power electronic & e-motor
- Rotor stack – rotor shaft interface
- Integration of rotor position sensor
- Control strategies
- Leakage proofed lamination (direct cooling)
- Bearing current reduction
- Rare earth content reduction
- Battery cell management
- Charging concepts
Data & Cloud Services
- Communication platforms & security
- App Business & cloud
- Connecting powertrain
- Online features for e-Motor & Inverter
- Predictive maintenance
- Vehicle safety & drivability