Guided industry project

Automotive Tail-lamp Design using CATIA V5

This project explores various concepts of Plastic product design like the creation of ribs, bosses, dog-house, etc. And also showcases various lighting concepts and regulations to be aware of while designing and development of a lighting component of a vehicle.

Duration: 1 month
Fee: ₹30,000
For: Basic Knowledge CATIA V5 (Generative Shape Design) is preferable

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What will you do in this project?

In this project, you will work on an Automotive Tail lamp assembly. You will perform the following steps in this project

A-surface given by the styling team is not always smooth or behaves to surface operations properly, that's why the first step is to analyze the A-surface
As soon as the surface quality is fixed, you need to create the B surface and then start making the welding track and by doing draft analysis simultaneously
The draft analysis will get defined by defining the tooling direction with respect to the welding track.
Now you will move on to create the reflectors for the bulb. The number and position of the bulb is determined by following the ECE regulations.
Once the welding track and the reflector creation is completed, you will create the housing vertical and horizontal sections which intern followed by how the housing design proceeds
After creating the sections housing A-surface and B-surface are created with respect to the reflectors
One the Housing is created you will optimize the housing design bu add ribs and other features for increasing its strength and mounting of the tail lamp
Now all the parts in a tail lamp are assembled and a sample wiring harness is prepared
After completing the assembly you will check your design with the ECE regulations
And Assembly drawing and the child part drawing will be prepared with BOM

Benefits of this Project

The project is a advanced level project

This project is great for undergraduate students, M.Tech, or MS students.
If you are a working professional, this project will be helpful to learn advanced concepts of surface modeling and other workbenches of CATIA V5.
You will learn the engineering aspects of designing taillamp and its components and various concepts and parameters in designing any component
You will learn how to approach the design by looking into the manufacturability of the parts and how to improve your design.

Pre-requisites

Must be familiar with Engineering drawing subjects.
Having a basic knowledge of CATIA V5 (Generative shape design) or other design software will help in completing the project in a fast phase.

Skills to develop

You will learn the basic principle of Design for Manufacturing
This project will give a detailed understanding of how the lighting concepts are implemented in real life
Here you will learn various regulations followed by OEMs while designing and assembling the lighting units for and in a vehicle
You will learn about the Plastic product design approach since the approach of the taillamp design is on the same basis followed for designing other plastic components.
Your surface modeling skills in CATIA will improve.

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