Hybrids or electrics?> Better cleaning

The Hybrid and electric cars have been a move on the Automotive industry in the last three years.

At the beginning the full electric car came very hard from USA  GM developments .The japanese remain on their hybrids . The European look also to the hybrids but mainly diesel . (or Hydrogen cells on the pocket too)

For some wash-deburr manufacturers it was a question of survive to know if the present  internal combustion engine (petrol or diesel) was damned or not.

Now it seems that the autonomy of the electric cars with the present battery technology do not allow a big Km range without the support of electric infrastructure and quick load for the batteries.

Up today it seems that the Internal combustion engine , petrol or diesel still has an important role to power the new cars coming . If electric car , like a range extender feeding electricity to the batteries. If hybrid , like support engine driving directly the car or helping the electric motors to drive the car. Or in the meantime as a low consumption, low emission car engine.

In consequence new engine programs arrive and also new  transmissions designs . Both search a low consumption and low emissions . The transmissions become of 7,8,9 speeds ( more mechanics..).The ICE engines with higher power on small engines .With cylinder head heads incorporated to the cylinder block , or the exhaust manifolds incorporated to the cylinder head . With double turbos , with gas recycling , higher injection pressures…

The petrol and diesel engines are still alive and for a long time.

More complexity in the engines or in the transmissions , more mechanical parts, better adjustments , in consequence a need of better cleaning .

Cleaning will remain a key production item for the automotive despite the pressure to reduce investments costs. The wash-debur manufacturers will have to do a big effort to fulfill the cost request from the Automotive customers . They will have to do a big effort to be global and follow their clients around the world. Installations in China , India, Korea, Romania, Russia , Brasil…

That’s means to have a company organisation with global service support, with better machine reliability,with proved cleanliness efficiency ,with well-trained engineers able to go around the world , speaking several languages.Companies giving quick answers to global clients.

It is a big challenge . Ten years ago it was a challenge too but now the washer manufacturers companies have harder conditions : high competition , pressure to reduce costs , harder credit access, global service to be implemented , emerging countries local manufacturing need , patents to protect the singular devices…They will need an effort on organisation , on human resources …

Good luck to everybody .I see you on the Parts2clean 2011 Stuttgart show.