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The Automotive Experience team is a leading global provider of systems and components for seats, overheads, doors, cockpits and electronics. While we are open to any relevant technology idea, we are particularly interested in solutions that can reduce product weight, provide a step-change cost reduction, and/or improve our environmental sustainability. Technology ideas that also address one of these synergistic topics are especially encouraged: 

• Surface / skin technology for instrument panels, doors, or other interior parts
• Cover materials to replace conventional materials like fabric, vinyl and leather
• Bio-polymers / natural fiber materials ready for industrial scale-up and high volume production
• Advanced high strength steels / structural composite materials for light weighting applications
• High performance or “smart” materials to improve the end user experience
  
  
• Welding / joining technology for unconventional or dissimilar materials
• Technology for forming advanced high strength steels
• Precision forming technology for lower cost recliners, adjusters and latches
• Tooling technology for injection molding that reduces manufacturing cycle time
• Fastener technology to reduce component assembly time and complexity
  
  
• Sensor and actuator technology for electronification of interior features
• Novel technology to achieve downsized mechanical components like recliners and adjusters
• Assembly automation to reduce assembly cost, complexity, and cycle time
• In-plant logistics to reduce work-in-process part transportation and storage costs
• Software tools to improve predictive analysis and design optimization

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