Joe Buchwitz

Chassis Systems Technical Specialist
Ford Motor Company

23 years’ experience in chassis systems and component design, including suspension, steering, brakes, frame/subframe, and wheel/tire. Over 18 years’ experience in chassis architecture and platform development, on all Ford vehicles ranging from CD-car to class 7 heavy truck.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Joe.

Download The Latest Agenda

Agenda Day 2

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

8:40 AM An Approach to Develop Light Weight Suspension Systems

The presentation shows how light weight suspension systems and components can be

effectively realized. First it will be shown how and why full vehicle weights have significantly

increased in the past 30 years. The light weight process deployed by Ford concentrates in the

first place on the development on weight effective solutions before, in the second step, weight

reductions are “bought” by means of lighter and more expensive materials, like aluminum,

composite materials. Selected examples more actual development projects will be shown to

demonstrate the process.

• Vehicle Weight benchmarking

• Light weight Suspension Systems and Components

• Aluminum and Composite Application in Suspension Systems