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| February 2004
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Lotus' Versatile Venture
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Versatile Vehicle Architecture is Lotus Engineering’s attempt to take platform sharing to the next level and allow automakers to make unique vehicles with high commonality and lower investment. If it succeeds, there could be a lot more funky low-volume vehicles in the marketplace.
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Creative Expressions
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Kip Wasenko's career moved him from Europe and Australia to Saturn, placed him at the leading edge of one of GM's most controversial design programs, and finds him in charge of its specialty and high-performance designs.
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Dealing With Rollovers: Deploying Technology to Mitigate the Potential
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Sensors, controls, chassis adjustments, and other means and methods can help prevent a leading cause of fatalities on the roads today: rollovers. Here's a look.
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Future Tool
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Created at the University of Michigan with funding from the National Science Foundation, the Reconfigurable Machine Tool was designed for the needs of the auto industry, where it has yet to catch on.
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Chrysler Group's Approaches to Advanced Manufacturing Engineering
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They're aggressive in their development of greater flexibility. They're working their capital equipment harder and longer. And they're counting on technology advances to make vehicle manufacturing even better.
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Steeling Plastics
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Having conquered interiors and trim parts, plastics are now making inroads into automotive structural components with the help of an unlikely ally–steel.
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What's New In Automotive Supply Chains?
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Although technology is an enabler, better business practices are resulting in better supply chains these days. Here's a look.
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COLUMNS
Gary Vasilash - Marginal:
Detroit Regained
Ted Pollock - On the Management Side:
Don’t Be Afraid Of Failure
Insight: The Auto Suppliers' Advantage
Christopher Sawyer - Dudder:
Of Bread and Circuses
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