Nicolas Duvernois

Pump Manufacturing Engineering Department
- CAPEX management and quotation for new projects
- Expenses budget management (4 locations)
- Monitoring of production costs (2 locations)
- New opportunities analysis

- Management of the adaptation project of an injection control unit and of a software to a Chrysler group vehicle family (Caliber, Compass, Patriot)
- Development and validation of functionalities based on customer requests
- Project team management (4 people)
- Customer support: Chrysler (USA), Daimler and FEV (Germany), on customer site and during validation trips (Spain, Sweden)

- Integration of hydraulic components of the injection system onto a DaimlerChrysler engine (220 CDI for E and C classes)
- Calibration of injection system control loops
- Project team management (6 people).
- Customer support, on DaimlerChrysler sites and during validation trips (Spain, Sweden)

- Management of a pump rig used to evaluate the potential of new products (injectors, pumps) and new control strategies
- Team management (3 people)
- On site support of advanced customers (Renault, DaimlerChrysler) testing future products
- Realization of engine or vehicle demonstrators

- Forecast of validation needs (vehicles) for 807/C8 development
- Computation of provisional vehicle performances
- Presentation of technical choices in order to achieve project objectives

- Analysis of guidelines
- Preparation of certification tests (in France or abroad)
- Negotiation with certification authorities on the way to apply new guidelines
- Helping factories in case of non-conformity in the production control tests
- Actions aimed to improve handling of certification constraints in the projects and consumption certification policy within PSA group
- Team management (7 people)

Programmation of post-treatment subroutines of a simulation program for 3D instationary turbulent and reactive flows

Study of emission and consumption measurement scatter on engine and roller bench