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Actively collaborating with companies in different
business areas for quality improvement
In the development of interior parts, we promote modules and integration
of parts to respond to auto manufacturers’ requests of reducing
the number of assembly processes and parts, and to ease our development
burdens. In particular, parts around an instrument panel need to be
integrated to give a harmonious impression of design and texture since
they affect the atmosphere in a car. In 1998, TG developed an integral
center cluster for Harrier, in which the switch and control parts
of a heater control, an audio, and a navigator are integrated, with
a company in a different business area. We have been accumulating
our development records in modularizing interior parts.
There were problems in an old type of instrument panel produced by
assembling many parts, such as gaps between parts, variations, and
different appearances and textures. A modularized panel has refined
the appearance and increased its appeal greatly.
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Collective strength from planning and designing
to manufacturing
We make the most of our know-how in every process in interior part
development from planning, designing, evaluation and preparation for
production to manufacturing. In particular, a number of digital technologies,
such as virtual verification to check how a finished product looks,
rigidity analysis to see how strong movable parts are, and flow analysis
to know how resin flows in a production process, are effectively utilized
in product prediction and performance evaluation. Efficiently analyzing
and evaluating a large part using a computer helps us shorten the
development period.
TG will continue to modularize parts in order to upgrade products
and cut cost further. Along with the modules of an instrument panel
and a center cluster, we will also develop products with electronic
parts in them.
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