Automotive engineering

Automobile engineering is a branch study of engineering which teaches manufacturing, designing, mechanical mechanisms as well as operations of automobiles. It is an introduction to vehicle engineering which deals with motorcycles, cars, buses, trucks, etc. It includes branch study of mechanical, electronic, software and safety elements. Some of the engineering attributes and disciplines that are of importance to the automotive engineer and many of the other aspects are included in it:

Safety engineering: safety engineering is the assessment of various crash scenario and their impact on the vehicle occupants. These are tested against very stringent governmental regulations. Some of these requirements include seat belt and airbag functionality testing, front and side-impact testing, and tests of rollover resistance. Assessments are done with various methods and tools, including

Automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and naval architecture, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic,  software, and safety engineering as applied to the design, manufacture and operation of motorcycles, automobiles, and trucks and their respective engineering subsystems. It also includes the modification of vehicles. The manufacturing domain deals with the creation and assembling of the whole parts of automobiles is also included in it. The automotive engineering field is research-intensive and involves the direct application of mathematical models and formulas. The study of automotive engineering is to design, develop, fabricate, and test vehicles or vehicle components from the concept stage to the production stage. Production, development, and manufacturing are the three major functions in this field.

Manufacturing engineers are responsible for ensuring the proper production of automotive components or complete vehicles. While the development engineers are responsible for the function of the vehicle, manufacturing engineers are responsible for the safe and effective production of the vehicle. This group of engineers consist of process engineers,  logistic coordinators,  tooling engineers, robotics engineers, and assembly planners.[2]

In the automotive industry, manufacturers are playing a larger role in the development stages of automotive components to ensure that the products are easy to manufacture. manufacturability in the automotive world is crucial to make certain whichever design is developed in the research development Stage of automotive design. Once the design is established, the manufacturing engineers take over. They design the machinery and tooling necessary to build the automotive components or vehicle and establish the methods of how to mass-produce the product. It is the manufacturing engineers job to increase the efficiency of the automotive plant and to implement lean manufacturing techniques such as six sigma and Kaizen.