2.4 Industrial engineering aspects and LCA 25 i i i i i i i I Figure 2.9: In stru ment panel carrier for automotivedashboards; sour ce Havrilla, 2010. successfully. Figure 2.10: Stamped steel CCB; the zoom shows a close up of one of 46 clips, [16]. Killing, [16], discusses inspection of a stamped steel beam that acts as the mounting frame for the das hboa rd. The syste m has been tes ted using image s genera ted by a commer cial machine vision system installed on an assembly line for the production of automotive CCBs, Figure 2.10. This particular CCB has a length of 170 cm and 46 metal clips must be inserted to provide threaded fastening points that allow the dashboard to be attached to the beam. At the final inspection station, the beams are checked to ensure that all clips are present and correctly inserted. 2.4.2 LCA – rec ycl ing Life cycle and recycling of lightweight vehicles are discussed by Das, [ 57]. An interesting analy sis of LCA for IPs is presented by Tharumaraja h, [58], conclu ding that the compar ison of environ mental perf ormanc e reveals that magnesiu m IPs perfo rmed the worst. Most of its emissions come from magnesium sourced from China and from the use of SF6 cover gas