Sponsors:
NEXEN Tire
Established in 1942 in Korea, NEXEN Tire first produced automobile tires in1956, and has over 60 years of tradition as a respected leader in the tire industry. Acknowledged as Korea’s first tire company, it was also the first domestic company to develop 60-Series V-shaped directional tires. Since then, we have been producing top quality tires based on the know-how and technological knowledge accumulated over the last 70 years.
In 2000, our company name was changed from “Woosung Tire” to “NEXEN Tire” to reflect our dedication to quality and continued leadership. Since then, we have steadily continued to grow and, along with a focus on becoming a global leader, have increased our domestic market share in the passenger car sector from a mere 8% to presently over 20% with over 250 dealers throughout 130 countries.
However, we believe that our achievements are merely a transition to the future and not our final destination.
http://int.nexentire.com/index.asp
College for Creative Studies
The College for Creative Studies has earned a worldwide reputation and helped shape an industry by placing more graduates in automotive design than any college in the world. But now, looking ahead, our Master of Fine Arts in Transportation Design program aspires to create those visionaries who will reshape the very notion of what transportation can be.
The program requires students to develop a keen awareness of global environmental issues and social change. The curriculum is designed to guide students to synthesize these external factors in their design work, translate them into a form that is meaningful in a business setting, and create products that resonate with a target market from all design and functional points of view.
CCS graduate students will learn business fundamentals from faculty of the University of Michigan's renowned Ross School of Business. This partnership with a premier business school provides graduates with the foundational tools required for implementing design concepts, making strategic business decisions and becoming effective leaders in organizations.
Global in outlook, the program reaches out to a rich international mix of students from many countries and cultures with experience in a wide range of industries.
RLE INTERNATIONAL
RLE INTERNATIONAL is a highly focused, premier supplier of full vehicle
engineering and product developement solutions. Originally formed in 1985
in Cologne, Germany, the RLE Group has grown into a global network of 11
locations on 3 continents employing over 1,100 people. RLE international's
United States presence was established through a strategic merger in 2002
with Craft-Line, Inc, which had been supporting the North American
automotive industry since the 1950s. Today, RLE USA is located in the
Detroit, Michigan suburb of Madison Heights and within close range of all
the major OEMs
RLE's core business is to provide high-level technical solutions in the
field of vehicle and component development. High quality, professional
management of OEM and automotive supplier projects, guarantees on-schedule
and cost effective results. Internationally, our particular focus is on the
areas of body/closures, interiors, exteriors, development of propulsion
concepts and electrics/electronics. RLE USA concentrates on complete
vehicle development, vehicle sub-system development, in-client staffing
solutions and consulting services.
RLE has earned its reputation as a premium global engineering partner in the automotive industry through on time, quality engineering solutions. To uphold this excellence, we maintain a close interworking relationship between our locations around the world allowing us to apply our global experience and expertise locally.
IGI
IGI is an industry leading provider of large scale, ultra high resolution projection systems for advanced visualization applications. These state-of-the-art solutions are the culmination of IGI's vast industry experience in delivering leading-edge technologies and its unwavering commitment to reliability, quality and attentive service.
IGI's systems create mission-critical value for corporations and organizations in conducting their core operations. This makes them ideally suited for high demand applications such as automotive engineering and design, military collaboration and intelligence, command and control room, oil and gas exploration and digital film post-production.
IGI's systems enable users to see what's most important to them by displaying vast amounts of data and complex computer models with stunning image quality. This allows for better understanding and more accurate analysis of the displayed information and accelerates collaborative decision making.
Since its founding in 1998, IGI has masterfully designed, built, installed and serviced some of the largest and most complex PowerWalls, PowerWindows and other custom visualization systems for dozens of forward-thinking customers nationwide. IGI is based in Commerce, Michigan with engineering and sales offices in Indianapolis and Los Angeles.
DASI Solutions
DASI Solutions assists emerging sector companies in the implementation of CAD, CAE, and PDM collaborative technologies used in the product development process by the designing engineer. DASI Solutions offers a host of solution partner software products that are tightly integrated with Dassault Systemes SolidWorks, ePDM, 3DVia & Simulation along with DraftSight.
DASI Studios is an Objet agent for the Desktop, Eden and Connex line of 3D Printers for rapid product development. The company has authorized sales, training, and technical support facilities located throughout the Great Lakes Region. For more information call 888-327-2974 or visit
GfK Custom Research, LLC
GfK – Growth from Knowledge
The GfK Group is one of the premier market research firms in the world. Over 10,000 consultants work towards maximizing your knowledge of consumers.
GfK Automotive, with US offices in Detroit and Los Angeles, offers market and target group insights to OEM’s and suppliers. By using advanced analytical and data gathering methods, we help to fact-base our clients’ decisions on product development, marketing, and communications.
Design research is at the core of GfK’s product research. Our psychological surveys reveal what consumers think and feel about vehicle design. Instead of merely rating design acceptance, we provide a holistic understanding of how vehicle styling translates into consumer perception and how it can be used to achieve its maximum desired effect on the target group.
Company link:
http://www.gfkamerica.com/
Automotive Sector link:
http://www.gfkamerica.com/sectors/automotive/index.en.html
NewNorth Center
NewNorth Center is a non-profit, hybrid educational and business institution. The Center specializes in innovation assessment, immersive skills training, research, executive education courses, custom workshops and in-depth seminars. Our portfolio features design-centric, post-graduate business programs formulated expressly to bring increased value to local, regional and national companies and organizations. NewNorth Center?s goal is to help companies succeed by embedding the habits of creative thought and design methods into their business processes
Eastman Innovation Lab
The Eastman Innovation Lab is all about materials and design advancing each other. It's getting bigger all the time as we add new applications, insightful video interviews, and develop concepts based on our extensive knowledge of materials. Indulge in a bit of blue-sky browsing. To make it easier, we've organized the site into specific market segments. But don't undervalue the power of serendipity. Our experience in creating this website and talking to thousands of designers is that inspiration often comes from the most unlikely sources. We see materials from perfume bottles reworked into automotive interiors; disposable safety syringes that pick up technologies developed for pricey office chairs. Check us out. You might see something that changes your world - a little bit.
Doing things differently ... doing things better
Lextant
Lextant is a design research and user experience design firm that helps companies produce actionable insights, design clarity and team
alignment. As a recognized leader in experiential-based research, our innovative techniques dig deep into understanding customers’
latent and tacit needs and emotions – the frustrations, expectations, desires, and aspirations that frame every brand experience. These
insights provide clarity, a key to aligning efforts, reducing risk, informing and inspiring teams, and building customer loyalty. Get
insight. Get clarity. Get Lextant -
Laser Reproductions
Laser Reproductions is a leading provider of rapid prototyping,
manufacturing, product development and stereolithography services to
industrial design firms, original equipment manufacturers, inventors and
architects.
By combining today’s leading processes, a vast production capacity and our
expertise in design engineering, we deliver innovative solutions that
rapidly bring ideas to life.
Our full-service capabilities include today’s leading Rapid Prototyping
processes and Tooling and Manufacturing services.
With our corporate headquarters located in Columbus, Ohio, Laser
Reproductions is centrally located to serve companies throughout the United
States.
ASC - American Specialty Cars
ASC is a full service vehicle design studio. For the last 46 years ASC has supported global OEMs, Tier 1suppliers and startup vehicle companies via design studio support, open air capabilities and complex mechanism design solutions.
We support your design staff and studio initiatives by offering Creative design ideations, Design and Development, Virtual digital modeling, Physical clay and foam milling, Class A surfacing, full program management, Design aids, Ergo mock-ups through show-car prototype builds.
We are headquarted in Warren MI, with an additional facility in Madison Heights and a manufacturing facility in Lexington Kentucky.
