Abstract
Keywords - Mechatronics, distributed electrical architectures, integration, scalability, cost optimisation.
Abstract - Automotive markets trend to serve customers with a large number of functions. Some of these were not thought some years ago, however the affordability of electronics and continuos improvement in size of the electronics components has resulted in a number of new demands. In new vehicles the large amount of services makes engineers deal with several components in the same location resulting in problems in packaging and communication among the departments involved in the allocation of the services.
Lear Mechatronics are integrated solutions to be allocated in those areas of the vehicle to solve the above mentioned problems. The integration in one unique product has as a result a number of advantages for the final customer such are: assembly savings, not only in the amount of pieces to assembly but also in the number of operations to deal with in the customers lines, minimise the parts number to control, reduction in numbers of versions, logistics reduction, packaging integration, electronics module integration, reduce of crimping.
The integration of switches and electronics being adapted to the packaging available are the base for Lear Mechatronics. Lear products focus on four main areas in the vehicles: Seats, Doors, Overhead and Instrument panels. Light Switch, Seat, Door and Overhead Mechatronics are our solutions for the new Era of electronic integration in the vehicles.
Mechatronics plays a key role in future distributed architectures to provide technical and economical best-in-class solution to car manufacturers.