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BorgWarner: Reducing Time to Commercialize Existing Products on New Applications

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2015

Student Team

  • Nabeel Kasim – EGL (BSE/MSE Industrial and Operations Engineering)
  • Gururajan Vijayan – Master of Supply Chain Management

Project Sponsors

  • Daniel Paterra – President
  • BorgWarner Thermal Chris Suhocki – Chief Engineer
  • Karl Wagner – VP of Sales and Engineering

Faculty Advisors

  • Robert Haessler – Ross School of Business
  • Vijay Nair – College of Engineering

A Tauber team helped BorgWarner Thermal Systems streamline the process for adapting existing products to new customer applications. The team mapped engineering workflows, interviewed stakeholders, and developed a more consistent global process. Recommendations addressed excessive approvals, documentation, resource constraints, and late specification changes to shorten commercialization timelines and improve engineering efficiency.