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November 2004
December 2004

  • Hush: The Buick LaCrosse
    Back in 2001, when Buick designers and engineers were working on what would become the replacement for not one sedan but two—the Regal and the Century—Bob Lutz took a look at what they were doing (like engineering a driver's interface that was largely based on voice-recognition technology with a steering wheel arrayed with so many buttons—to be used in the case that the voice system got hiccoughs—that Lutz describes it as "looking like a PC keyboard")—and he said that they needed to seriously rethink what they were doing.
  • Chrysler Group Goes To Extremes
    That is a real situation. Not something from PhotoShop. Not staged. A real driver in a real ‘05 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon on a portion of Hell’s Revenge in Moab, Utah. What’s perhaps most important to note is that he’s driving a production vehicle, not something that has been tricked out with aftermarket parts to be able to handle such roads...er, rocks.
  • Ford's non destructive evaluation lab: Looking Into Problems
    Ford's Non Destructive Evaluation Laboratory (NDEL) sits in a non-descript white concrete building in the middle of the test track next to its Livonia, Michigan, transmission plant. Behind the 4 ft-thick walls (8 ft behind the x-ray receptors) and 2 ft-thick ceilings are 9.0-million kV and 4.5-million kV x-ray machines, and a CT scanner. It is equipment more associated with hospitals than manufacturing plants.

  • Extended Stability Control
    Suppliers are adding greater functionality to electronic stability control systems to improve safety and entice car buyers to check the ESC option box.

  • Faster Machining

  • Steel Strikes Back

    Digital Domain

  • Sweden Does Telematics
    In automotive circles Gothenburg is known mainly as the home of Volvo. But Sweden's second largest city has become a hotspot for telematics research that is drawing global attention.

  • Designing Safer Bodies The Volvo Way
  • Do Small Companies Need PLM?
    Finding and reusing product designs, quickly getting to the right design revision, and just plain working on the same design revision in a collaborative work environment—these alone are all good reasons to implement product lifecycle management (PLM) systems. But it seems small companies aren't really buying into PLM; they are just now implementing and getting settled with product data management (PDM)—and getting what they would expect from "PLM."

    Work in Progress

  • This Software Could Even Improve Jennifer Garner's Looks
  • Denso 2015
  • GM's Two-Seat Technology Showcase
  • Siemens VDO'S Innovative Controls
  • Speed and Quality
  • Achieving Economic Survival
  • Pitch and Crash
  • Touchscreens That Touch Back
  • Saturn Re-emerges

    • COLUMNS

  • Gary Vasilash - Marginal: Wallowing in the Mud
  • Ted Pollock - On the Management Side: How To Simplify Your Job
  • Insight: The Innovation Imperative
  • Christopher Sawyer - Dudder: Spin This!
  • William Kimberly - EuroAuto: Building Aston Martin Engines in Cologne—By Hand
  • Christopher Sawyer - PartsBin: No Air? No Problem!


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