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t gives me immense pleasure in reaching out toSAENIS fraternity and extend my warmgreetings through this SAEINDIA NorthernSection Newsletter “Sampark”.

I recall the year 1998, where a group ofEngineers and Managers came together to startthe activities of SAE in India. The main purposeof starting SAE activities was to benchmark bestpractices in automotive industry and to upgradethe knowledge in the field of automobileindustry. The formation of SAENIS has playedan important role in spreading out the activitiesthrough membership, student chapters and byorganizing various technical seminars.

SAENIS has successfully organized threeInternational Mobility Conferences in the yearsof 2000, 2004 and 2008 and the SAENIS teamhas shown a good team work while organizingthese successful conferences in Delhi. Iunderstand that SAENIS is once again going toorganize the next International MobilityConference in 2012, for which the preparationshave already started. I wish allSAEINDIA and Section board members as wellas organizing committee of the conference agrand success for this event.

One of the important requirements for SAENISmembers is to get proper communicationthrough a media to get acquainted with all thehappenings in SAENIS and this gap is nowreduced by way of our SAEINDIA, NorthernSection Newsletter “Sampark”. The automotiveindustry in India is growing fast and there is astrong need to meet the future demands in termsof technology and modernization. I appeal to allthe present members of SAENIS to spread theword among their fellow members to promoteSAE activities to take this to the level of SAEInternational, USA.

I am very thankful to Mr. Murli Iyer and all the past SAE Presidents in extending their full support to SAENIS and hope the same in future also.

Dr. K. Kumar Director, Maruti Centre of Excellence President, SAEINDIA Foundation 1st President, SAE INDIA Founder Chairman, SAENIS

Simulation Solutions for Automotive Industry

A seminar which aims to showcase broad applications and value of simulation in Automotive Industry with real industry examples illustrating the impact of simulation in various organizations. … Page 2

From Founder Chairman’s desk

Upcoming events….

Seminar on “Impact of Materials on Weight & Cost Reduction Opportunity in Future Vehicles”, 11th March 2011, Gurgaon

Seminar on “Welding Technologies”, End March, Gurgaon

Innovative Solutions on Electroplating Technologies

The seminar covered the various challenges faced bythe platers and new corrosion resistance technologiesin Plater industry.

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Issue 4, March 2011

TECH BUZZ

Gasoline Direct Injection

The gasoline is highly pressurized, and injected via a common rail fuel line directly into the combustion chamber of each cylinder, as opposed to conventional multi-point fuel injection that happens in the intake tract or cylinder port.

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Heartiest congratulations! Tapan Sahoo, GM-MSIL and Secretary-SAENIS successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Strategic Technology Management in Auto Component Industry in India" and has been declared eligible for the Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. SAENIS community congratulates him on this great achievement.

Celebrating a decade of Knowledge Enhancement

“Different modes of operation like Ultra lean (for light load), Stoichiometric (moderate load), Full power (rapid acceleration and heavy loads) gives flexibility in useage.”

“chrome free technology & recent trends in electroplating & geomet applications discussed ”

“Special focus was given on unified FEA product solutions, multi-physics, simulation automation and optimization capabilities”.

EVENT UPDATES

Simulation Solutions for Automotive Industry, 23rd February 2011, Gurgaon

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SAEINDIA NORTHERN SECTION

Innovative Solutions on Electroplating Technologies, 5th February 2011, Gurgaon A seminar on ‘Innovative Solutions on Electroplating Technologies’ was held recently. It emphasized on the various challenges faced by electroplaters and focused on the new corrosion resistance technologies in the electroplating industry.

with a participation of more than 110 people from a diverse setof companies such as Lumax, Bajaj Electroplaters, JDEnterprises, Victora Tools.

For the global automotive manufacturers to survivechallenges like stiff competition, cost pressure,excessive production capacity, there is a need to focus

Organized by SAEINDIA (Northern Section), the event started with a presentation by Maruti Suzuki India Limited on its experience of ELV implementation in its product lineup. This was followed by case study on the challenges faced by the electroplating industry.Electroplating, which is useful as it not only makes the surface attractive, but also ensures protection of the surface against corrosion and for repairing of finer machine parts.

The event also covered areas like future technologies, application and

In IC engines, gasoline direct injection (GDI) is a variant of fuelinjection employed in modern 2 & 4 stroke gasoline engines.The gasoline is highly pressurized, and injected via a common rail fuelline directly into the combustion chamber of each cylinder, as opposedto conventional multi-point fuel injection that happens in the intake tractor cylinder port.

In some applications, gasoline direct injection enables stratified fuelcharge (ultra lean burn) combustion for improved fuel efficiency, andreduced emission levels at low load.

process of zinc protector technologies, complete chrome free technology and recent trends in electroplating & geomet applications.

The seminar saw an overwhelming response

on minimizing cost and maximizing efficiency.

Upfront design validation is crucial and engineers need a robust,integrated analysis toolset to assure success in this field.Virtualsimulation tools can enable the Automotive Industry to shorten up theproduct development time as well as cost.

The seminar gave an overview of the simulation tools available for studying the linear, nonlinear, and transient dynamic load cases using only a single simulation tool. It witnessed an overwhelming participation of over 60 participants from OEMs and automotive suppliers.

A welcome address by Dr.Tapan Sahoo (Secretary, SAENIS) marked the beginning of the seminar wherein he emphasised on the need for

Gasoline Direct Injection

shorter product development cycle along with superior quality.

Application experts from Dassault Systems Simulia Pvt Ltd, delivered sessions on process integration and design exploration, durability analysis, ride and handling. The seminar concluded with an insightful session of case studies on occupant safety presented by the worldwide OEMs.

In direct gasoline-injection engines, the Air/Fuel mixture is formed directly in the combustion chamber. During the intake stroke, only combustion air is drawn in through the open intake valve, the fuel being injected at high pressure into the combustion chamber by a high-pressure pump

compressing the fuel to the high pressure level required in thefuel rail. The injectors are attached to the fuel rail meter andatomize the fuel extremely fast and under high pressure in orderto achieve the best possible mixture formation directly in thecombustion chamber.

The engine management system continually chooses amongthree combustion modes: Ultra lean burn, Stoichiometric, andFull power output. Each mode is characterized by the air-fuelratio. The stoichiometric air-fuel ratio for gasoline is 14.7:1 by

weight, but ultra lean mode can involve ratios as high as 65:1. These mixtures are much leaner than in a conventional engine and reduce fuel consumption considerably.

The contents of the program were well appreciated by the participants who primarily constituted of experienced people from the field of Computer Aided Engineering.

*Reference: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/direct-injection-engine.htm

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SAEINDIA NORTHERN SECTION MEMBERS CORNER

The Managing Committee

Chairman Mr. I.V. Rao MEO (Engineering), MSIL

Senior Vice Chairman Mr. R.B. Madhekar CGM, MACE.

Mr. P. Agrawal GM, MSIL

Secretary Dr. Tapan Sahoo GM –MSIL

Treasurer Mr. N.S. Rao AGM – MSIL

Vice Chair Student Activities Mr. Deepak Sawkar GM -MSIL

Dr. SSV Ram Kumar Chief Mgr. IOC (R&D)

Vice Chair Membership Mr. Anoop Chaturvedi GM - MSIL

Mr. Deepak Jain Sr. Executive Dir. Lumax Industries

Chairman Technical Dr. K.P. Naithani Exec. Dir. IOC(R&D)

co-Chairman Technical Mr. C.V. Raman CGM-MSIL

Vice Chair Conference &Communications Mr. Sanjay Thakar GM –MSIL

Dr. R. T. Mookken GM- IOC (R&D)

Vice Chairman – Formula/ BAJA India/ Design competition Ms. Pamela Tikku Deputy Dir., iCAT

Vice Chairman - AWIM Mr. Rakesh Sood M i Di T i I di

Executive Members Dr. K. Kumar Director –MACE Mentor (SAENIS) Dr. R. K. Malhotra Director – IOC (R&D) Immediate Past Chairman, SAENIS G.K. Acharya DGM (IOC) R&D Mr. Hemant K Swain GM -MSIL Mr. Atanu Ganguli Director-SIAM Mr. A. D. Sindwani Exec.Dir - SAE-NIS

Invitees Mr R. Dayal Executive Officer (PE), MSIL President – SAEINDIA Mr S. Maitra Managing Executive Officer (SC), MSIL Ex-Chairman, SAENIS

Editorial Board Sanjay Thakar S P Nayak Deepak Panda Anoop Bhat Piyush Agrawal Avnish Gosain Siddharth Kotru Gaurav Jain G Hari Vignesh Ravi Kumar Goel Ankur Anand Milind Wagh Harveen Talwar

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