admin Nissan recently announced that it was going to incorporate the technological developments that have been ideated in the company’s proprietary labs to help improve the NISMO Heritage Parts Program in Japan.
The Heritage Program
The NISMO Heritage Parts Program brings a genuine series of now discontinued repair and replacement parts to users. This program was initially launched in December 2017 with an opening capacity of just 80 parts. However, over the course of time, the augmenting level of technical sophistication has allowed the number of offerings to increase to a total of 300 parts. The program was specially curated to encourage Nissan automobile users to continue operating the performance-oriented older models of the brand for a longer period of time. This initiative will help make those models more durable and improve their longevity. NISMO Heritage Parts are produced in collaboration with suppliers by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Nissan Motor Sports International Co., Ltd., Autech Japan, Inc.
New Technologies Integrated
The new technologies integrated into the program have been created at the Nissan Research Center and Nissan’s Production Engineering Research and Development Center. The latest additions to this list of unmatched tech of the automobile giant include dual-sided dieless forming for body panels and 3-D printing for resin parts. The former innovation was ideated by Nissan in 2019, as a method to produce body panels in low volumes. The method enables the molding of complex shapes through the use of robots pressing rod-shaped molding tools onto opposite sides of a steel sheet to incrementally deform and mold a panel. The company now plans to implement this production method to produce rear panels for the R32 Skyline GT-R. Nissan created prototypes while incorporating the sheet metal know-how of skilled workers and used dual-sided dieless forming and non-lubricated processing with mirrored diamond-coated tools as a base.
Another formidable addition to the astounding feat of technical brilliance is the 3D tech pioneered by the brand and its collaborators. The 3D printing technology was jointly developed with Solize Corporation to produce a protector made of resin for the harness in the R32 Skyline GT-R. With the harness body supplier’s cooperation, Nissan redesigned the parts and conducted performance tests that adapt to 3D printers, enabling a shorter time to commercialize high-standard parts.
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