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The process of translating customer needs into successful commercialized products and services has been the subject of many books, articles and papers [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. This process has many facets and nuances depending on the type of product or service being developed. Factors impacting this translation include the target audience, cost, timing and return on investment. While some of these factors may be more important than others for any given project, there are six core elements that are present in every successful new product commercialization venture: Commercialization Components: Customer Understanding Technology Understanding Customer Feedback Market Awareness People and Process: Skilled Project Management Commercialization Process In this paper we will define and describe these core elements and some of the important building blocks, tools and tactics. We will illustrate with real-world examples how these elements are used and measured.

3M is committed to continuously improving products and their manufacture toward the goal of sustainability. ...3M is committed to continuously improving products and their manufacture toward the goal of sustainability. The 3M Life Cycle Management (LCM) program has been established to implement this goal. It utilizes a matrix tool to facilitate the review. ...The LCM program started with evaluations of new products within business units. Since 3M produces more than 60,000 products manufactured from more than 10,000 different raw materials, the routine evaluation of individual products challenges available staff and business unit resources.

This paper describes the approach and test procedures utilized at The 3M Company. Initially the focus was placed on duplicating vehicle conditions. While producing excellent test results, the goal of evaluating package durability quickly and at low cost was not met.

Five areas of test methods and equipment as used at The 3M Company Diesel Filter Products Laboratory are discussed. These include: 1. Diesel particulate sampling, 2.

3M is leveraging its 78-year history in lane markings and retroreflective traffic sign material to develop products for the automated driving environment.

Current products from 3M can be used to repair aluminum- and carbon fiber-intensive vehicles, but the company is working with OEMs such as General Motors to develop optimized solutions for multi-material structural applications.

The company that invented Post-it notes is helping self-driving cars "see" the world.

The thermal performance of the stator with the 3M coating is better than the one with paper liner. In addition, using 3M coating reduces the packaging size of the stator.

The first adhesive, 3M 5041, is a two-part (2K) induction-curable and room-temperature-curing epoxy adhesive designed for high-volume-production hem flange bonding operations on unprepared oily aluminum. ...The second adhesive, 3M 5042, is a heat curing one-part (1K) weld-bond epoxy adhesive developed for body structure bonding applications. ...It will be shown how these new 3M adhesives offer the combination of process friendliness and performance needed to exploit the unique properties of aluminum.

Sidewindow glass offers three significant and related areas of liability to automobile owners and drivers: smash and grab, spalling, laceration. 3M is currently testing an anti-spall/anti-lacerative film designed to improve the integrity and safety of both tempered and laminated sideglass.

This new elastomer is available from 3M and it will be referred to as TPT in this paper.

“Paint Film” material and process technology have progressed to a new level of development for finishing injection molded plastics in-the-mold. 3M and Rexam have combined forces (Cooperative agreement announced at the 1995 SAE meeting in Detroit) to develop a systems application approach for paint film production, part and mold design and film finishing in the molding process definition.

It will also describe a technology and product available from 3M which can reduce or eliminate many of the aesthetic and functional design problems now being addressed for automotive instrumentation.

Solar reflective film is one way to reduce the peak soak temperature by reducing the solar heat gain into the passenger compartment. A 3M non-metallic solar reflective film (SRF) was tested in two minivans and two sport utility vehicles (SUV).

Two different filter media (3M 0104 and 0105) at two different pleat heights (2.70 and 3.60 cm) were studied. The approaching velocity was varied from 1.65 to 5.84 m/sec by a combination of three different cross sections (161, 226 and 355 cm2) and three different flow rates (3540, 4248 and 5663 lpm).

Illustration of the many facets of adhesive robustness are made using primarily 3M #5047, a 2K epoxy hem flange adhesive developed for bonding oily untreated metals. Areas of robustness covered include storage stability, surface oil accommodation, open time, and performance under various curing conditions.

The size is 7.4m × 57m × 3m (H × L × B) with a total tunnels of 636 and pallet positions of 2544.

In the in-vehicle test, an OEM wheelhouse liner with Trim, for an SUV, was evaluated utilizing this new multilayer 3M treatment.

There are several aspects that need to be addressed like choice of efficient battery materials, good battery design, incorporation of thermal management solutions for electronic components, proper cooling systems (traditional air, water -glycol cooling to 3M engineered fluid NovecTM and passive defense against the practical abuse conditions would ensure the shield against the thermal runaways.

The availability of high octane fuel enables the engine to be designed with a compression ratio and boost which gives the Octane Boost Engine (OBE) higher efficiency. 3M has developed pervaporation separation modules made with flexible organic membranes that selectively remove and concentrate ethanol and methanol from gasoline blends.