National Laboratories & Industry: “What’s our tire company going to do with a nuclear weapons lab?”
Presenter
February 22, 2016
Keywords:
- DOE, CRADA, Goodyear, Sandia, ASCI, Sierra Mechanics, physics-based computational product development, FEA, HPC, uncertainty quantification, competitive advantage, job creation, time-to-market, innovation
Abstract
In 1993, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company ventured into an improbable, close-working partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, a U.S. nuclear weapons lab. We will discuss, from the industry perspective, the lessons learned while initiating, managing, and gaining value from the relationship, including pitfalls and how to surmount them, in what became one of the Department of Energy’s showcase Cooperative Research and Development Agreements.