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Current instabilities in the automotive industry are placing ever-increasing pressure on engineers and managers to reduce costs and improve quality. At the same time, they must meet or exceed high safety standards, while addressing a changing variety of customer feature preferences, including making additional features and functionality available to consumers at lower cost. Finally, increasing global competition makes a shorter time-to-market even more critical to success than ever.
For the past decade, Red Cedar Technology’s HEEDS® Professional design optimization software and consulting services have helped automotive engineers discover innovative, optimized designs faster, and with reduced material and manufacturing costs. Faster development time translates into a shorter time-to-market, giving our customers and clients a competitive advantage.
Automotive engineers worldwide use Red Cedar Technology’s technology and expertise to create high-performance passenger vehicles that are safer, lighter, and more comfortable. Our optimization strategies have improved the crashworthiness of systems and components, reduced NVH, and successfully discovered optimized designs for:

Featured Papers
► Design Optimization of Progressively Crushing Rails (PDF, 217 KB)
► Improved Vehicle Crashworthiness via Shape Optimization (PDF, 452 KB)
► Advanced Technologies for Design and Fabrication of Composite Automotive Components (PDF, 293 KB)