MAINFORUM 2025

2025 AUTOMOTIVE FRONTIERS

MARCH 5-7, 2014
CINTERMEX INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER
MONTERREY, NL, MEXICO
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Dr. Andrew Brown Jr.
Vice President & Chief
Technologist
Delphi
MAINFORUM2025 Chairman
DEAR FRIENDS
AND INVITED GUESTS
The MAINFORUM2025 will feature automotive thought
leaders and innovative organizations from diferent
specialties coming together in one symposium that will
dene our future work.
The focus of the forum will be technology, research,
development and innovation of automotive products and
their manufacturing processes.
The main goals are to share trends and visions of the
automotive future in 2025, create an environment of
collaboration and present current breakthroughs
arising from Mexico and other leading sources of
global innovation.
You are extended an invitation to attend. In addition to
sharing views on the key industry trends through 2025,
you will have an opportunity to make new contacts,
share the innovation capabilities of your organization,
and meet new partners.
I look forward to seeing you at the MAINFORUM2025
and dening the future of our industry together.
MEXICOS
AUTOMOTIVE
INNOVATION
NETWORK
FORUM 2025
AUTOMOTIVE FRONTIERS
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NOW OPEN
The 1st edition of the MAINFORUM2025 will be
held on March 5-7 2014 in Monterrey, Mexico.
The conference will provide leading perspec-
tives on global automotive technology fron-
tiers 2025. The conference will be chaired by
Dr. Andrew Brown Jr., Delphis Vice president
and Chief Technologist and former SAE inter-
national president and chairman. Sessions
will be led by speakers with background from
such world class organizations as Auto21, De-
troit Diesel, EPA, Fraunhofer, Georgia Tech,
IDIADA, Schneider Electric, Southwest Re-
search Institute and Tecnalia.

MAINFORUM2025 will be a unique network-
ing and learning opportunity for researchers,
technologists, entrepreneurs, innovators, gov-
ernment authorities and industry leaders to
advance their understanding of critical trends
through 2025 in key automotive technologies,
government regulations and consortia-based
innovation activities.
The venue will be the international business
center CINTERMEX, located in the heart of
Monterrey, one of the most important indus-
trial hubs in Mexico. Travelling to Monterrey is
convenient and easy.

Why Mexico? and Why now?
Mexicos Automotive Industry has maintained
an annual average growth of 10% after the
global economic crisis in 2009. Parallel to the
continuous arrival of new manufacturing fa-
cilities, there is the emerging growth of pub-
lic and private engineering and technology
centers. Now is the time to stablish strategic
partnerships world-wide. Mexico now is ta-
king manufacturing market share back from
Asia and attracting more global investment
than ever in autos, aerospace and household
goods. wrote Thomas L. Friedman in his arti-
cle How Mexico got back in the game in the
New York Times, published in february 23rd
2013.
Mexicos Automotive Innovation Network
Forum 2025 will be intense discussions of
future technology trends and networking
among industry, government and academy
leaders that will provide you with the tools to
undertake a succesful innovation program.

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SPEAKERS AND SESSION CHAIRS
MARCOS
PREZ
Product
Development Director
Latin America, Ford
FERNANDO
TURNER
President and CEO,
Katcon
WAYNE
ECKERLE
VP Corporate
Research & Technol-
ogy Integration & CTC
Site Leader, Cummins
JORGE
VZQUEZ
Director R&D Center
Mexico, Continental
THOMAS KURFESS
Professor and HUSCO/
Ramirez Distinguished
Chair in Fluid Power and
Motion Control,
Georgia Institute of
Technology
ANTHONY
GRESZLER
Vice President
Government and
Industry Relations,
Volvo Trucks
ENRIQUE
VILLASEOR
Director,
Sanluis Rassini
THOMAS
REINHART
Engine, Emissions &
Vehicle Research
Division - Southwest
Research Institute
PETER
FRISE
Scientic Director
and CEO, Auto 21
DAVID
MERRION
Retired Executive Vice
President of
engineering,
Detroit diesel
ALBERTO
AYALA
Deputy Executive Ofcer,
California Air Resources
Board (CARB)
GREG
FADLER
Director of
Performance Integration,
Certication and
Compliance, Navistar
JAIME
PARADA
Director, Innovation and
Technology
Transfer Institute
DOUGLAS
EBERLE
Manager Powertrain
Design and Analysis,
Southwest Research
Institute
JORGE
VALLEJO
Corporate Afairs &
Internal Administration,
Nissan
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DREW KODJAK
Executive Director, The
International Council on
Clean Transportation and
Former Executive with the
U.S. EPA-Ofce of Trans-
portation and Air Quality.
MATTHIAS
PUTZ
Production Management
Area Director, Fraunhofer
Institute for Machine
Tools and Forming
Technology IWU
ANDRES
APARICIO
Manager Active Safety
Development and
Testing, Applus IDIADA
PRIYA
PRASAD
Ford Safety Systems
Technical Fellow
(retired), Ford
TIM
SHINBARA
Technical Director,
The Association for
Manufacturing
Technology
DAVID
MCSHANE
US Vice president of
business development,
Ricardo Inc.
ANDREW
BROWN JR.
Vice President and
Chief Technologist,
Delphi
JEREMY
GODDARD
Director Sales and
Client Management,
Applus IDIADA
PABLO
MARTINEZ
Manager Business
Development NAFTA,
Tecnalia
DARRYN R.
LAZAR
VP Sales &
Marketing, Wineman
Technologies Inc.
SERGE
LAMBERMONT
Director Automated
Driving, Delphi
JOSEPH
KENIANTRA
Safety Systems
Administrator (retired),
National Highway Trafc
Safety Administration
(NHTSA)
KENT
CRAWFORD
Director of Engineering,
Schneider Electric
ANDREAS
SPRICK
Manager Passive
Safety Development and
Testing, Applus IDIADA
JAMES
R. SAYER
Research Scientist in the
Human Factors Group,
University of Michigan
Transportation Research
Institute
JAVIER
RODRIGUEZ
Director of Vehicle
Integration, EDAG Inc.
MARCO
TAISCH
Professor of Advanced
Manufacturing
Systems, Politecnico
di Milano
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MARCH 5-7, 2014
CONFERENCE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
WED MARCH 5th
THU MARCH 6th FRI MARCH 7th
Technology Challenges envisioned for the Global
Automotive for Supply Chain
Regulatory and
Technology Trends
in Light Duty
Vehicles 2025
Heavy Vehicles
Regulatory Trends
2025
National and International
Funding
Networking Break
What is Coming
Down the Road?
Future Power train
Trends
Safety & Structures
Lunch
Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
Discussion Roundtables
Sustainable Manufacturing
Processes
Evolution of Core
Manufacturing Processes
Networking Dinners
Monterrey: International City of Knowledge
R+D+i Centers Tours
Transportation to Cintermex
Automotive Mobility 2025 and Beyond
Mexicos Automotive Innovation
Network Cocktail
Product Design, Simulation & Testing
Automation, Robotics,
Integrated Sensing and the
rise of the Industrial Internet
Networking Break
Connected
Vehicles and
Autonomus
Driving
Future
Materials
Multilateral
Collaboration
The Electric Vehicle in North America and its
Technology and Infrastructure Challenges 2025
State of the Art Metrology
Instrumentation
8:30 AM
9:00 AM
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11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
12:30 PM
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3:30 PM
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4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:30PM
6:00 PM
6:30 PM
7:00 PM
7:30 PM
8:00 PM
8:30 PM
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RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION PARK VISITS
Monterrey has become an emerging cluster of multi-industry research, develop-
ment and innovation centers in the last 15 years.
In total, 97 public and private R+D+i centers, 10 medium-high tech incubators, 4
high-tech incubators and 1 Research and Technology Innovation park, are part
of the ecosystem.
This initial part of the program consists of giving the MAINFORUM2025
attendees the opportunity to visit the research and technology innovation park
(PIIT) and 6 of the R+D+i centers that are stablished in it.
The attendee will be able to choose 3 1-hour tours from the 6 available.
CIIDIT
UANL
Center for innovation,
Research and Devel-
opment in Engineering
and Technology
ABRE
UDEM
Center for
Innovation in
Packing Design
CIMAV
CONACYT
Advanced Materials
Research Center
CDIM
SCHNEIDER
ELECTRIC
Development and
Innovation Center
CIDESI
CONACYT
Center
for Engineering and
Industrial Development
CIDEP
ITESM

Innovation and
Strategic Product
Design Center
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AUTOMOTIVE MOBILITY 2025 AND BEYOND
(INTRODUCTORY KEYNOTE)
The emissions, fuel efciency and security government regulations for
light and heavy vehicles are demanding an enormous industrial efort to
develop new technologies that can achieve a signicant improvement in
the next 10-15 years period. In addition, the emergence of TICs, intelligent
materials, megacities, and some other relevant trends will contribute to
change the way we know the automotive mobility today.
TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES ENVISIONED FOR THE
GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLY CHAIN (CHALLENGES
FOR THE SUPPLIERS PANEL)
This panel will be comprised of both OEMs and Tier 1 Suppliers at senior
executive levels to describe the technology and innovation challenges
that they perceive on the 2025 frontier. The purpose of this session is
to share the big picture requirements of the future which will then be
addressed to a degree in the individual modules that will follow.
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Andrew Brown
Jr., Vice President & Chief Technologist, Delphi.
Chaired by Peter Frise, Professor and
Scientic Director & CEO, Auto 21.
Chaired by David F. Merrion, Retired Executive Vice President
of engineering, Detroit diesel.
Government regulations are the main driver of technology development.
A look at international fuel efciency and CO2 regulations, so as views
and recommendations for future approaches from engine, light vehicles
and heavy vehicles manufacturers will be presented.
REGULATORY TRENDS HEAVY VEHICLES
MONTERREY: INTERNATIONAL CITY OF KNOWLEDGE
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Jaime Parada, Director, Innovation
and Technology Transfer Institute
The state of Nuevo Len, Mexico is taking steps to modernize their
technological and informational capabilities. Monterrey, Mexico the
capital city of Nuevo Len, has launched the Monterrey International City
of Knowledge (MICK) Program in order to promote the development of
innovative new ways of economic growth. Technology and the creation of
industrial parks are some of the main ways the city hopes to do so. This
transformation of the economy needs the support of educational facili-
ties, individuals, and businesses on all levels.
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FUTURE MATERIALS
In the automotive industry advanced materials already used at
the body in white and other structural parts are enabling the
lightweight and downsizing strategy that the industry is facing.
But there is still a long way to go in order to achieve the manda-
tory emission reduction targets for new cars. Besides alterna-
tive and more efcient powertrains, light weighting is a need for
every car manufacturer. Continuous development on advanced
materials will reduce the weight of the car through product and
process development on martensitic steel, aluminum and com-
posites to be combined on multi-material structures.
Chaired by Pablo Martinez, Manager Business
Development NAFTA, Tecnalia.
CONNECTED VEHICLES AND AUTONOMOUS DRIVING
(ELECTRONICS AND SOFTWARE TECHNICAL SESSION)
Consumer electronics is changing how we envision infotainment
in the vehicle especially with the emergence of the smart phone.
Such technologies as V2X and autonomous driving will create an
entirely new level of performance, safety, mobility, enjoyment, etc.
for the vehicle owner and his passengers.
Chaired by Andrew Brown Jr., Vice President and Chief
Technologist, Delphi.
REGULATORY AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN LIGHT DUTY VEHICLES
THROUGH 2025 (REGULATORY TRENDS LIGHT VEHICLES)
In this session, we will discuss the connection between light duty vehicle
fuel economy standards and the evolution of vehicle technologies that
improve efciency. In 2012, the United States - including California - and
Canada set greenhouse gas standards for light duty vehicles out to 2025.
These standards will drive technological development throughout the
automotive sector from manufacturers to suppliers. What is the
prognosis for penetration rates for hybrids, for light-weight materials, for
turbocharged direct injection engines, for improved aerodynamics and
tires? These are just some of the questions that will be explored
during this session from the perspectives of government, manufacturers,
and suppliers.
Chaired by Drew Kodjak, Executive Director, The International
Council on Clean Transportation and Former Executive with
the U.S. EPA-Ofce of Transportation and Air Quality.
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SAFETY AND STRUCTURES
In this session we will have a review of the NA Legislative Trends in
Active and Passive Safety; comparative comment with trends/focus in
other markets;
Also talk about the Technology Developments in Active (UEB, etc.) and
in Passive (use of CFRP, lightweighting, EV Safety, etc.)
Another important topic is the Developments in Chassis Controls and
their Integration with Powertrain Controls; Connected Vehicle On-
board/Of-board Controls Development.
PRODUCT DESIGN,
SIMULATION AND TESTING
The next generation of CAx platforms will be addressed considering the
2025 trends of new designs, materials, regulations and requirements.
Practical cases will be shown as how a computer aided tool solved a
problema, achieved an optimization or helped to reduce time and/or
cost on the development of an autopart.
Testing infrastructure used by global automotive technology leaders
will be presented.
Chaired by Jeremy Goddard, Director Sales
and Client Management, IDIADA
Chaired by Javier Rodriguez, Director Vehicle
Integration, EDAG
WHAT IS COMING DOWN THE ROAD? FUTURE POWERTRAIN
TRENDS (POWER SYSTEMS AND DRIVETRAIN)
Chaired by Douglas Eberle, Manager Powertrain Design
and Analysis, Southwest Research Institute
Powertrain component manufacturers need insight into industry
trends as we move toward the 2025 light-duty vehicle. This session
will consist of leading industry experts representing their views of
2025 light- duty vehicle powertrain trends. Emphasis will be on new
or increased requirements for structures, processes and materials.
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SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
In this session it will take part the 2025 vision of energy efciency, pollut-
ants control, hazardous substances, water and waste treatment, etc. Also a
vision of an efcient and sustainable manufacturing facility.
It will be also discussed scenarios derived from the current state and how
to get to 2025 with particular emphasis on solutions in energy management.
AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS, INTEGRATED SENSING
AND THE RISE OF THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET
(AUTOMATION AND INDUSTRIAL INTERNET SESSION)
This session will focus on the efect of automation, robotics and integrated
sensing on the future of manufacturing. Key areas for this focus include
art to part (from conceptualization to mass production) concepts, robot
/ human interaction or the so called co-bots, the use of simulation and
advanced analysis to improve designs and production operations, the use
of low cost and integrated sensors to improve quality and efciency via the
integration and processing of big data generated in production operations
using cloud computing, clout storage and the industrial internet.
Chaired by Kent Crawford, Director of Engineering,
Schneider Electric
Chaired by Thomas R. Kurfess, Professor and HUSCO/
Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion
Control, Georgia Institute of Technology
EVOLUTION OF CORE
MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Chaired by Thomas R. Kurfess, Professor and HUSCO/
Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion
Control, Georgia Institute of Technology
This session will focus on the use and integration of next generation
disruptive core manufacturing processes. In particular, the session
will address composites manufacturing and automation, multi-mate-
rial joining and assembly, and additive manufacturing. An introductory
presentation of traditional manufacturing processes state of the art
technologies will be included.
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