Exploring the: Automotive Materials Zone
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- Accelerate: Nov/Dec
- Black ULTEM; More Scanning, Less Moving; Rapid Mfg to Double by '17; Point, Shoot, Scan
Columns Published: 11/30/2012
- Notable
- Audi in Mexico; Renishaw Equator; Honda welding process; Ford - Going for the One; Steel for Safer Volvo; Valeo's Hybrid4all
Columns Published: 9/19/2012
- Accelerate
- Better 3D materials; powerful powders/thriftier aluminum parts; wireless 3D printer; SLS material minds the gap.
Columns Published: 8/22/2012
- How To Compete
- PRISM Plastics, established in 1999, started with 0 business and is now a $25-million company.
Columns Published: 7/25/2012
- Plastics & Progress
- The plastics industry has always relied on the auto industry. Of the various companies represented by attendees at NPE2012—of which there were more than 19,000—those from automotive are important to the producers of plastics machinery, resins, and a...
Columns Published: 4/6/2012
- At Your Fingertips
- What Is It?
Columns Published: 9/1/2003
- Light On Its Feet
- Mark White, manager, Body-In- White Design, Body & Trim Engineering Jaguar Cars Ltd. (Coventry, England), is an aluminum man.
Columns Published: 12/1/2002
- Taking Soft-Touch to New Heights
- There's a reason you won't find a photo of any products using "soft-on-soft" overmolding technology in this story. It's not that polymer maker Kraton Polymers (Houston, TX.), compounder AlphaGary (Leominster, MA), or even injection molder Slatebond ...
Columns Published: 11/1/2002
- Genchi-Genbutsu and Creating the Toyota 4Runner
- With the proliferation of SUVs on the market right now, the folks at Toyota knew that there was a big challenge in developing the new 4Runner. So Toyota engineers applied a methodology that got them thinking about what really needed to get done.
Columns Published: 10/1/2002
- Plastic's Possible Future
- From engineering and product perspectives, the characteristics of plastics for automotive applications that Dr. Michael M. Fisher, director, Technology, American Plastics Council (APC; Arlington, VA), cites are interesting and impressive
Columns Published: 10/1/2002