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April 2004
April 2004

  • VOLVO S40: All of the Volvo Virtues in a Smaller Package
  • Engineering The LX
    Chrysler Group builds a quintessentially American car: a large, rear-wheel-drive car with just a touch of Mercedes

  • The Great Retro Debate
    When is a design considered “retro” and when is it a homage to a company’s heritage? That’s a question even the world’s top automotive designers have trouble answering.

  • PT Cruiser Convertible: Designing, Engineering & Making
       The Drop-Top

  • Inside Edition
    Looking inside 10 interesting vehicles. Some production. Some concepts. All with interesting interiors.

  • De-Commoditizing the robot
    When your products are considered to be fairly fungible with those of your competitors, you can make incremental improvements and hope they are sufficient or you can take a bigger risk and try to make a big difference. The latter is what the people at Motoman selected.

  • Laser System is a Bright Idea for Faster Product Develpment
    By using a laser scanning system mounted on the arm of a portable CMM and some clever algorithms that provide automatic feature extraction, vehicle manufacturers can further accelerate their time-to-market by having faster turns from CAD to prototypes to production.

  • Lotus Bonds with Aluminum

    Digital Domain

  • Match Analysis With Materials
    Material characteristics and differences are sufficiently disparate so that those designers and engineers who are looking for tools to model parts before they’re produced ought to consider those that are specific to the requirements.

    COLUMNS

  • Gary Vasilash - Marginal: Do You Have Fans or Customers?
  • Ted Pollock - On the Management Side: How To Teach More Effectively
  • Insight: What Makes an Automotive Supplier "Strategic"?
  • Christopher Sawyer - Dudder: Honda’s Descent Into Hell
  • William Kimberly - EuroAuto: The Smart Way of Building Cars


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