Igus VAVE-oriented plastic bearings are said to bring high-performance, low-cost parts solutions to the automotive industry at a very challenging time – proving the Igus mantra of ‘Tech up, Cost down’.
The automotive industry is in constant a state of change, with high product introduction turnover and now the shift to electrification. Costs are rising fast – materials, wages, and transportation – but the pressure to keep vehicle prices down is constant. Igus has responded, by drawing on its value engineering roots and offering automotive suppliers high value components, series or customised, at low costs. The company is using value analysis and value engineering – or VAVE – principles to offer automotive suppliers high performing parts at low prices at a time of fierce cost pressures on the industry.
VAVE applied by Igus adheres to the first tenet of value engineering that basic functions are preserved and not reduced due to pursuing value improvements. Today, VAVE is a fixed component of cost reduction measures for series and pre-series products.
In response, Igus has a series of VAVE offers to the auto industry and other highly cost-sensitive manufacturing industries, for receiving samples quickly and cost-effectively:
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Igus says cars and vans have many applications for its speciality motion plastics and because using plastic bearings and parts saves weight, essential for modern automotive design. Igus products can be found wherever there is movement where reducing friction, wear and noise in components and counter partners is needed. From the pedal mount to the windscreen wipers to the car seat adjustment mechanism, from plain bearings and gears in actuators and small motors to high temperature ranges in gearboxes, the list of products needing motion plastics grows continuously.
Igus engineers continually research special materials and develop new, innovative products and designs. The company’s dry-tech product range currently encompasses products such as tribologically optimised plain bearings, gears, lead screw nuts and lead screws, spherical bearings, ball bearings, and more.
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