Not the Delorean Revisited: An Assessment of the Competitive Position of a Stainless Steel Body-in-White

Autokinetics is a Rochester Hills MI design firm working with Armco, a supplier of stainless steel. Together, they have developed an architecture that replaces the traditional stamped and spot welded steel unibody with a novel stainless steel spaceframe architecture. Relative to conventional steel unibodies, the Autokinetics spaceframe architecture offers a number of projected advantages. The obvious question that arises, and the one that this paper will answer, is: How does the Autokinetics spaceframe architecture compete on cost?

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-3239
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/01487191
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of SAE International.
• Authors:
  • Dieffenbach, Jeff R
• Conference:
  • International Body Engineering Conference & Exposition
  • Location: Detroit Michigan, United States
  • Date: 1998-9-29 to 1998-10-1
• Publication Date: 1998-2-23

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Serial:
  • SAE Technical Paper
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • ISSN: 0148-7191
  • EISSN: 2688-3627
  • Serial URL: http://papers.sae.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Casting; Coatings; Colorants; Computer architecture; Downsizing; Equipment assemblies; Fabrication; Finishes; Metal working; Packaging; Steel; Welding
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01794897
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: SAE International
• Report/Paper Numbers: 1999-01-3239
• Files: TRIS, SAE
• Created Date: Dec 9 2021 10:17AM