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edwin 02 | 2003 1 design • engineer • build • drive 02 | 2003 Edscha inside IAA 2003 Hiding sliding door NEW SLIDING DOOR MECHANISM[...]

Fresh ideas for vehicles. As a supplier of movable systems, we’ve got a feel for what’ s essential for vehicles. T ogether with our ability to design complete vehicles, and with fresh ideas, our path into the future invariably looks good. And hence some matching extras can come along too. Like extras that smell nice. But leave that to others to[...]

EDITORIAL edwin 02 | 2003 3 Open up! central feature of cor porate culture at Edscha is openness. Honest and time- ly communication is something w e care about deeply , both in-house and to wards the general public and of course our custo- mers. That’ s one of the reasons wh y w e hav e edwin , no w appearing the second time. Coincidence or not ?[...]

CONTENTS BUSINESS 5 News Financial results, new joint venture in China, 4th Edscha Symposium 8 When the Machine came to Man 40 years ago Edscha opened its first branch plant in Bavaria 9 Sharper profile IVM Automotive picks up the pace with a new structure PRODUCTS 10 Edscha inside The Group’ s contribution to new vehicles launched at the IAA 2[...]

FINANCIAL ST A TEMENTS 2002 | 2003 Weak mar- k ets and other adversities could do little to hold up the Edscha Group this past financial year . DIN ISO EN 9001: 2000 AND VDA 6.2 duction of the BMW Z4 and the Smart Roadster tops caused sales of con ver- tible roof systems to shoot up 30 per - cent to  189 million (  145 million). Thanks to nu[...]

6 MECHA TRONICS CENTER Live wir es Electric driv es and electronic controls for mechanical compo- nents are the basis of most automotiv e inno vations – including rear lids, parking brakes and con vertible roof systems. In Remscheid , Edscha is therefore about to set up a Mechatronics Center in the still-young business y ear 2003 | 2004. The Cent[...]

edwin 02 | 2003 7 11–21 September 2003 (9/10 press days) IAA INTERNA TIONAL MOT OR SHOW P ASSENGER CARS • F rankfurt/Main 9 October 2003 PRESS CONFERENCE ON FINANCIAL YEAR 2002 | 2003 • Steigenberger P arkhotel, Düsseldorf 16 October 2003 MEET@ FH WIESBADEN • Campus Career Contact F air , FH Rüsselsheim 23 October 2003 CONNECT A • Campu[...]

8 emplo ys approx. 1,200 people on a factory site of 47,000 m 2 . During the last business year , plant rev enues came to about  225 million, equiv alent to almost a quarter of the Group’ s entire sales – and a no less important f actory in the region’ s econom y toda y than in the six- ties. By the time the plant celebrated its silver jub[...]

edwin 02 | 2003 9 he ability to respond ev en more quick- ly and ef f iciently than before to custo- mer requirements – this was the inten- tion of the V ehicle Design business di vision (IVM Automotive) and also the reason for its new or ganizational str ucture. Their aim: con- sistent use of specialized kno w-ho w and resources throughout all l[...]

OPEL ASTRA T he doors of the new Opel Astra feature a door check of completely new design – the Edscha Corporate Check (ECC1) . Made almost entirely of plastic, it is maintenance- free , considerably lighter than most other door checks , and also better protected against corrosion and friction noise . T he Edscha-designed hand- brak e of the new [...]

edwin 02 | 2003 11 hand brake lever SMART FORFOUR In the new Smart F orfour , the latest generation of hinges from Edscha is opening series-produced doors for the first time (page 22 f .): T he Notch Stop is a door hinge with an inte- grated door check and some very special advantages for the OEM as well as for car users . It tak es up less room t[...]

12 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 3 2 1 3 4 5 6 12 11 10 9 8 7 2 1 5 6 ightw eight constr uction is an obvious solution in the quest to cut fuel con- sumption and harmful emissions. These da ys, a wide range of lightweight options exist: the first generation of aluminum bodies produced during the nineties sa w the steel industry respond with a plethora[...]

edwin 02 | 2003 13 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 5,0 4,0 3,0 2,0 1,0 30 25 20 15 10 5 BLUE, GREEN, RED T he blue bars represent the specific costs of the material. T he bottom end marks the cost-optimized solution for the material in question. The blue ball represents the targeted concept status . The designer can thus ascertain the cost of a particular design[...]

14 ot ev en hinges are what they used to be. Their task has remained largel y the same ev er since automobiles were in vented and Edscha began equipping them: that task is reliable and fle xible connection of car body parts. How ever , the demands on their service life and safety , their functionality and their comfort hav e risen enor mously . EL[...]

edwin 02 | 2003 15 connection with Mercedes-Benz, it’ s no coin- cidence that the ‘Chairman’ resembles the predecessor of the cur rent S-Class – are intended to la vish this g reat comfort on Asia’ s growing upper class. Edscha assumes respon- sibility for the entire system, from dev elop- ment to project coordination, supplying all compo[...]

BUSINESS PRODUCTS PROJECTS PROCESSES BOULEV ARD ugo Junkers’ aircraft engines are to this da y the most eff icient diesel en- gines ev er built. The creator of the Junkers 52 (“ Auntie Ju”), a flying legend , was the first to recognize the potential inherent in the opposed-piston principle – and this was at the end of the nineteenth centu[...]

ments are the car- bon-aluminum pistons and the magnesium crankcase. ■ Designed by IVM Automotiv e with the assistance of Laukötter , the Dessau-based die- casting specialist, and Diesel-Air , the crank- case consists of a magnesium allo y . Its manu- facture by a die-casting process, and appl ying special design guidelines for magnesium, result[...]

18 BEFORE Hiding sliding door NEW KIND OF SLIDING DOOR MECHANISM Note how unnoticeably the sliding door opens – smoothly , almost noiselessly , giving no indication from the outside of being a sliding door until it opens . A fully functional prototype of the new Edscha system promises new freedoms for car designers and drivers . con ventional sli[...]

behalf of customers. Practically as a sideline, hobby sculptor Ruigrok also is tinkering with an electric driv e for the system, and with his latest vision: sliding doors for driv er and rear passengers that open in opposite directions. W ith no B pillar , they w ould open up the entire side of the passenger compartment – the ultimate in accessib[...]

BUSINESS PRODUCTS PROJECTS PROCESSES BOULEV ARD er ry W olkind doesn’ t rely on luck in his w ork. “ A vehicle has about ten seconds to con- vince a potential buyer . So nothing must be left to chance, ” the head of the IVM Automo- tiv e Design Center believ es. “On the contra- ry: design quality is based on a coherent con- cept, and that?[...]

latter in the most recent past: besides sho w cars for Hyundai (incl. Hyundai Clix, Frank- furt Inter national Motor Sho w 2001) and Mazda (Mazda 6 MPS Concept, Paris Motor Sho w 2002), his last outstanding effort was the design of the ‘Luminus’ shown on the Edscha / IVM Automotive stand at the 2003 Genev a Motor Sho w . Luminus, based on a mod[...]

hen the first o wners of the new Smart F orfour proudly open the doors to their cars in the spring of 2004, they will hardl y guess ho w much effort was needed to mak e this possible: three years of dev elopment time for the hinge and anoth- er 20 months for the equipment on which it is produced. INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE At Hauzenberg in the Ba v [...]

tion is to pa y off for Edscha, a le vel of flexi- bility to match. This is wh y the Remscheid production and process planners, in collabora- tion with a special-pur pose machinery maker , dev oted as much lo ve of detail to the de velop- ment of the new machining equipment as the hinge designers did to the hinge. UNTIRING OPERA TION F eaturing pa[...]

hen was the last time y ou got exa- sperated by an attempt to sto w your collected odds and ends in an open shoe box and carr y it around with you? W ith its lid on it was relati- vel y stiff. But no w , without the lid , it gets distor ted and mis- shaped , and it doesn't give y our treasures much support. A similar thing happens when a coup?[...]

ELEV A TORS Reaching for the sky Long before there w ere cars, mankind was w orking continuously to impro ve its mobility , and ingenious inv entors were already familiar with the idea of con- ve ying passengers in the vertical plane. As early as 1743, Louis XV of France enjo yed the luxury of using the first elev ator – albeit a muscle-po wered[...]

26 ffection for them has gro wn o ver more than 100 years. Ev er since Carl Benz patented his motor car riage back in 1886, and Gottlieb Daimler and Wil- helm Ma ybach took their first jaunts with a gasoline-driv en coach, a unique relationship has ev olved betw een the driv er and his vehi- cle, and in that the car differs from e very other techn[...]

gest streetcar depot 100 years ago, is the “Meilenw erk” – a mecca for all lo vers of clas- sic cars (www .meilenwerk.de). They’ ll find ev er ything they need to make them happ y on an area 16,000 square meters in size: lo w-cost parking spaces, w orkshops for restoration, maintenance, upholstery work and electro- nics, dealing and rental[...]

Edscha AG Hohenhagener Strasse 26–28 42855 Remscheid Germany T elephone: +49. 2191.363-0 T elefax: +49. 2191.363-549 www .edscha.com IVM Automotive Holding GmbH & Co. KG Hufelandstrasse 13 80939 Munich Germany T elephone: +49. 89.31566-191 T elefax: +49. 89.31566-575 www .ivm-automotive.com[...]