Dow Automotive's advanced engineering activities help translate emerging customer needs into product development efforts. We can help accelerate new solutions to market and can provide total program involvement.

Located geographically close to OEMs, globally, Dow Automotive's QS-9000 certified Application Development and Engineering (AD&E) Centers provide the following services:

• Advanced system design conceptualization
• Material application development and optimization
• Material selection
• Design feasibility, engineering simulation and optimization
• Attachment and joining technology and optimization
• DVP&R development and performance validation
• Fabrication and processing methods, equipment selection
• Lower total system cost
• Engineering program development

These facilities house expert resources in all aspects of part design, engineering, prototyping, tool design and appropriate testing and validation under simulated (CAD/CAE, FEA, FMEA) and actual conditions. Computational capabilities and software include:

• CAD Computational Design
• Finite Element Analysis Pre/Post Processors
• Structural and Acoustical Analysis and Optimization
• Flow Analysis and Optimization
• Mold Filling Analysis and CFD

Dow Automotive also provides program management and engineering expertise to assist in program implementation. On-site support at customer facilities, along with support from our internal functional groups (engineering, quality, manufacturing engineering, cost estimating, purchasing, customer service, etc.), assures that our products will meet or exceed design and engineering requirements. In fact, Dow Automotive has the capability to provide turnkey solutions – working with customers from week 200 to Job One. We can:

• Identify need, challenge or opportunity
• Engineer, test and validate a solution
• Specify, optimize or develop a material (from a material-neutral position – whether our material or another supplier's – we will specify the best material for the application)
• Handle logistics – all the way from raw materials at a tank farm to containers and transport to your facility
• Design dispense equipment and manufacturing surroundings relating to process
• Support production start-up
• Manage supply chain

At Dow Automotive we recognize that there are no boundaries to what can be imagined, and we are dedicated to transforming concepts into realities. And by working together, developing ideas into successes.

For more information on Dow Automotive's Application Development & Engineering services contact the Customer Information Group (CIG):

	CIG North America		800.309.0988
	CIG Europe		800.3.694.6367
	CIG Pacific		603.7958.3392