Brite Euram-Project

F I O R E S

BE 96 - 3579
 
Pininfarina
PININFARINA Studi e Ricerche, located at Cambiano, near Torino, is an independently operating company within the PININFARINA Group. Its pre-eminent mission is the design development of automobiles and other transport means, keeping PININFARINA as a worldwide renewed design reference. Beyond automotive activity, customers come from areas such as trains, buses, trucks, earth moving machines, agricultural tractors, fork-lifts, ferries, aircraft interiors, leisure boats and others. 

The following activities of the 186 employees can be a part of processes throughout the Group, or services offered to other specific customers:

  • Creative definition through sketches, final renderings and CAS visualization
  • Layout engineering for manufacturing of models and prototypes
  • Models manufacturing in different materials and scales
  • Manufacturing of running prototypes utilizing different technologies (steel, aluminium, plastic)
  • Wind tunnel testing of full-size models and prototypes
  • Final scanning and mathematical definition of surfaces
PININFARINA Studi e Ricerche participated successfully in several Italian research programmes like "Energetica 1 & 2" in 1978 and 1990. Its interest in FIORES has been to develop innovative means to obtain the best correspondence between styling models and all subsequent manufacturing tools.
 

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