ABSTRACT
Vehicle packaging involves creating vehicle drawings or computer-aided design models that show locations and spaces occupied by the vehicle systems, occupants, and items brought into the vehicle. The package engineers are responsible for the development, design, verification, and delivery of digital data that represent various vehicle systems and component designs. The vehicle package engineers work concurrently with other engineering teams to ensure that all vehicle systems can be packaged within the vehicle space defined by the vehicle exterior parameters. Vehicle packaging requires inputs from customers, design studio professionals, and vehicle systems engineering departments to ensure that acceptable trade-offs between occupant space and mechanical equipment spaces are made. Many of the occupant packaging tools and data on driver characteristics used by the vehicle packaging engineers have been developed and updated by ergonomics engineers working in the automotive industries, research institutes, or universities.
