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July 2002
July 2002


  • Designing Ford's Future with Passion
    His design work at VW/Audi put J Mays on the map. Now he's working to put Ford design on track.
  • Inner Space
    Moving Lincoln from a second-string has been to a premium luxury brand won't be easy, but the division's chief designer, Gerry McGovern, has a strategy to do just that while redefining the term "American Luxury."


  • The View from the Top
    All-glass roofs, extra cargo capacity, and multi-functionality in a single vehicle is moving from the auto show floor to the show room. webasto's welcome concept vehicle shows automakers how easy it is to add these features by lightly modifying their body structures and adding a module or three.
  • The H2 Moving Beyond Limits— Organizational & Otherwise


  • SMYRNA MAXES OUT
    Nissan's Smyrna, Tennessee, plant has been a lynchpin in the automaker's return from a near-death experience. It has reduced costs, improved quality and is turning out popular products. Its next challenge is to launch the all-new Maxima and teach the new plant in Canton, Mississippi, its productive ways.


  • erp: complexities, ironies,and advances
    Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is still what it is: your back-office automation system for managing the vast majority of business transactions in your enterprise. But now ERP is stepping out in multiple directions.
  • SIMPLICITY works at oshawa
    When you have nearly 10,000 people producing and engineering cars and trucks all pulling in the same direction, then impressive things can happen—and they are happening at GM of Canada's impressive complex outside of Toronto.

    COLUMNS


  • Gary Vasilash - Marginal: On Protoplasmic Inertia
  • Ted Pollock - On the Management Side: How Not To Blow Your Top
  • Martin Piszczalski - Information Technology Update: Five Myths of Telematics
  • Christopher Sawyer - On Materials: Less Weight, More Quiet
  • Christopher Sawyer - Dudder: Respect Your Elders
  • Christopher Sawyer - On Cars: Shake Your Money Makers



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