Senior technical analyst, Antonio Maresca, was interviewed for Automotive Engineer magazine on SBD’s low speed impact benchmarking activity.  AE_jul-aug09.pdf (156.90 kb) UK firm, SBD, is putting together a benchmarking consortium to look at low speed damageability. It could he... [More]

Developing products to meet European market demands and to plan next generation cars Case study - An Asian-based client wanted to develop the conceptual structure for a new ‘B’ segment model to compete in Europe. As a new venture, the client lacked experience in European veh... [More]

Enabling our clients to implement ‘right first time’ development for new products Case study - A Chinese vehicle manufacturer, keen to expand into Europe, was experiencing difficulty in understanding how to meet the high speed crash and pedestrian protection requirements of Euro ... [More]

Competitor benchmarking to influence new designs Case study - SBD carried out a vehicle teardown and assessment of five competitor vehicles in the LCV segment to input into target setting and early design concepts. Studies of the front end structure and materials highlighted design strengths... [More]