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Digital Domain
The Automotive Design & Production Digital Domain Zone includes information on the software, from simulation and analysis to product lifecycle management, used in product development for the automotive industry.
Lawrence S. Gould
This PLM product has all the advantages of next-generation, cloud-based technology. It’s also quick, easy, inexpensive.
Long known for its ERP software, IQMS (iqms.com) has decided that beyond providing its EnterpriseIQ software that it would be a good idea to provide some hardware specifically tailored to provide shop floor functionality, so it set about to develop the RTStation, a touch-screen device that is designed and engineered for at-machine use.Specifically, the RTStation displays machine information ranging from part counts and cycle speeds to downtime and job setup information via alphanumerics, images, and graphs.
Lawrence S. Gould
Even cloud-based ERP can handle complex assemblies with multiple configurations.
Although the topic was ostensibly the implementation of plastic materials under the hood as replacements for metals—and with there being some significant reasons for doing so, as in “Weight savings vary from 20 to 50%, depending on the component.
Full-vehicle noise-vibration-harshness (NVH) simulation through NVH Director from Altair Engineering.
Toyota Makes Engine Investments
Gary S. Vasilash
Toyota is investing, to quote Dick Cheney, “big time” in engine production in the U.S.
Honda: Seeing Too Far?
Gary S. Vasilash
Theodore Levitt, in 1960, published a paper in the Harvard Business Review titled “Marketing Myopia.” Fundamental to the piece is the question, “What market are you in?” One of the famous examples he used is the railroad industry, which was in decline at that time as a mode of personal transportation, as people were taking other alternatives.
Making More Altimas in Smyrna
Gary S. Vasilash
The Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, opened in June, 1983.
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