Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and pre-APQP research and development combined with biomimicry can accelerate the sustainability and regenerative innovation of automotive components, systems, and manufacturing.
Let Nature Comes Standard integrate the following BiomimiCar Tools into your next project.
Sustainability
Analysis
Tool
The 0.0 Pre-APQP, 1.0 Planning, and 5.0 Feedback & Assessment involve evaluating the areas of success and improvements desired on future products, systems, or manufacturing processes. Whether your team is benchmarking previous internal designs, competitor designs, or establishing all new targets, the Sustainability Analysis (SA) tool provides a means for objective comparison throughout the APQP process. Based on nature's universal principles, Nature Comes Standard can help your team develop weighted target values and discovers improvement areas through an audit. The biomimicry sustainability tool can inspire additional features to push a component, process, or system function toward regeneration, the next step beyond sustainability.
BiomimiCar
Design
Tool
A potent biomimicry tool is BiomimiCar Design. It can apply to a team: attempting to find a radical innovation during the 0.0 Pre-APQP phase; discovering a major innovation during the 2.0 Product Design & Development and 3.0 Process Design & Development; or searching for an incremental improvement while root causing a launch issue during the 4.0 Product & Process Validation phase. Scoping the engineering challenge in a biological language allows Nature Comes Standard to identify a catalog of appropriate Nature's Design Lessons (NDL). These NDLs showcase biological strategies translated into engineering parameters that, combined with the engineers' knowledge, can inspire radical or major design innovations, an incremental design improving the Risk Priority Number (RPN) on a DFMEA or PFMEA, or a quick solution to a launch issue.
Technology
Benchmarking
Tool
While radical and major innovation is essential to automotive design and development, engineers must also explore low-risk sustainability solutions. A Technology Benchmark (TB) report created by Nature Comes Standard highlights existing biomimicry and bio-inspired technologies transferable from labs, universities, and non-automotive applications.
Creativity
Spark Tool
The Creative Spark tool can assist if a team must design a clean-sheet component, system, or process or wanting to think “outside the box” during the 0.0 pre-APQP stage. This tool involves a Nature Comes Standard LLC guided reconnection with nature to observe the universal biological operating principles with 3.8+ billion years of design and validation. This experience stimulates the creative mind for expanded "Aha moments." When combined with the BiomimiCar Design tool, this is an even more powerful creative process emerges.