DESIGN, ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT OF SEATBELT COMPONENTS

Abstract

This paper presents the design challenges form car manufacturer request to concept and concept validation, examining the customer’s needs and assimilating them in the design goal document used by component suppliers for the automotive industry. The rules and regulations that apply to the to the safety systems components bought as international law, customer specifications and internal specifications. The design challenges for this are to integrate all the design goals into the product as sometimes there is a thin line between product failures and over-engineering as designers and engineers must not only build a product that is robust, but it must also be cost effective bought in used terms of materials and component design.