OEMs find new approach to reducing warranty issues

Specialist consultancies are the key to helping OEMs and Tier Ones target savings of EUR100s per vehicleSoutham, UK, 1st July 2014 – Recent experience by transmission and driveline engineering company Drive System Design (DSD) suggests that OEMs are typically losing 3 to 5 percent of vehicle total costs to warranty issues, equivalent to EUR200-1000 per vehicle. As timescales for model introduction shrink and global platform sharing becomes more widespread, the impact of warranty cost is becoming more significant while the variety of experience gained by individual engineering departments is