Dr. Chia-Min Wei, vice president of the Metal Industries Research & Development Centre (hereafter referred to as MIRDC) and Mr. Richard Yen, vice president of Altair for global automotive industry, signed a MOU for global strategic cooperative partnership on March 23. The MOU signing marks an important step for Taiwan’s automotive industry towards the international market.
The Department of Industrial Technology, MOEA, has established a domestic integrated certification platform to upgrade and improve development of Taiwan’s automotive industry and assist the industry in building vehicle related core technologies. The goal aims to develop light-weight modularized structure and key technology, which is expected to help Taiwan automotive structure industry respond early to future market trends and specification requirements. Such preparations are intended for becoming the supply chain of international auto maker. The cooperation will combine design, analysis, prototyping and test of module components of metal structure at MIRDC with Altair’s advanced technologies including simulation aided design, lightweight structure, and so on. Collaborative items are the optimization of various metal structures, utilizing rich design experience to build a mutual global strategic partnership, and expanding the comprehensive customer service for both parties.
Under the principle of mutual benefit, MIRDC can use Altair’s global vehicle engineering service platform to promote the advantages of Taiwan auto production such as new material, new process development technology, modularized parts, and the ability to rapidly provide small quantity large variety of products. Altair, on the other hand, can link its innovative product design and development, advanced engineering software, and rich experience in automotive design with the competitive industry in Taiwan through MIRDC and MIRDC’s own lightweight modularized technology. These technologies include 3D printing sand casting, hot stamping, light metal manufacturing, vehicle prototype design and assembly, integration of running chassis system in EV, and test and certification of EV. These technologies will enable MIRDC and Altair to provide a comprehensive service for their customers.
In the short-term, both parties are putting collaboration priority on key metal structure modules that can be applied to special cars produced for Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia. This collaboration focuses on key module layout, light weight design, material process feasibility analysis and personnel training and exchange. Both parties expect to use close cooperation to not only facilitate the development of Taiwan’s automotive industry, expand perspective, improve key technology, and implement substantial collaboration, but also increase the visibility of Taiwan’s automotive industry on the global stage.