"Audio Product Development Perspectives" Featuring Roger Shively

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Aug 31

"Audio Product Development Perspectives"

September 1, 2021 | 12-2pm Eastern Standard Time

The AES **Audio Product Education Institute** (APEI), now known as the Audio Product Development Alliance (APDA), promotes a special online event discussing the challenges in the automotive supply chain for those companies and professionals working in automotive audio and acoustics. With contributions offering unique perspectives and expertise from APEI’s distinct education pillars, the session will present an overview of the challenges in the automotive acoustics supply chain and outline growing product development requirements for this very complex market.
Following an overview of the evolution of the supply chain eco-system and how it has developed into an extremely complicated system that requires a multitude of skills and requirements, **the event** will detail key trends that determine success in the current automotive audio environment. With the evolution of the supply chain moving from Europe and North America to Asia the current conditions present not only design and development challenges, but also advanced global logistics coordination in many areas within the supply chain.
APEI’s educational pillar chairs will explore the automotive supply chain looking at the history of audio in the vehicle, and how it has gone from “speakers in a car” to “branded infotainment systems”. Addressing hardware development, **the session** will discuss transducer and systems development that include the various challenges of coordinated design efforts, branded audio systems requirements, certification requirements, materials supply continuity and logistics coordination.
The unique interaction between APEI’s various pillars will also outline specifics within the automotive environment, including the importance of in-cabin testing and modeling in order to reduce time to market and increase the user experience; How to plan and forecast product development cycles correctly, predict and plan for the unexpected, and learn from actual cases; Making the “right choices” for the audio systems aligned with specific vehicles; And consumer trends driving audio solutions.
More information about this online event and future APEI webinars can be found on their website here.
View this online webinar right now on demand here.
Find SAI’s live tweets of this online event here.

The mission of the APEI Automotive Pillar is to explore and explain the practical approach and development of all the products that are conceived, planned, designed, and implemented in automotive car audio. They plan to hold an online session for Automotive Audio every month, so stay tuned for our upcoming sessions in 2021.