Automotive Design & Production

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Articles in Nov 2005 issue of Automotive Design & Production

• Driving SKF by-wire
• Keronite seeks auto business
• Bryan Nesbitt, take 2: slightly more than a year after our first encounter, we check up on his progress in reformulating GM Europe Design
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Technology aids visualization of part problems
• It's an American brand: jeep concepts revealed in Europe
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Agreeing to disagree
• Bright idea from Mitutoyo
• Mays on design: regionalism, emotions, packaging & bad '60s TV shows turned-movies. Ford's top designer on these subjects, and more
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Changing perspective
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Institutionalized
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Looking @ the 2006 VW Passat
• Fewer buttons, less effort, more control
• A tale of two Civics: Honda's Global Compact Platform is not what you think it is because the European and American versions of the Civic are similar, but definitely not the same
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Silly British cars or spy/kids
• History bites back
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• Mercedes S-Class makes technology gains
• Who counts?
• Stephenson's design journey
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• How to reduce hours per vehicle
  by Erkut Uludag
• Iscar Metals
• Assembly: move it
• Castle Bromwich prepares for XK assembly: when you're putting together an aluminum-intensive vehicle, the sparks don't fly, but rivets are used in abundance
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• Ford's U.K. investment in diesels
  by William Kimberley
• Designed for high-volume turning
• Assembly: tape it
• Tools to create real products virtually: simulation tools to test the wear and tear and just about everything else about new products are getting pretty close to the real things
  by Lawrence S. Gould
• Give 'em something to talk about
• The challenges of niche production
  by John Cleveland
• The innovation imperative
• One touch does it all
• Mobile instrumentation—in the development lab
• Volvo raises safety bar with C70 Convertible
• Denso seeks next diesel breakthrough
• Scanning developments
• Logo mania
• Erratum
• Erratum
• From ROI to GDI
• Mazda improves paint process
• Electromechanical valve actuation revisited
• Nissan: the extraordinary happens every day; From the direction of the now-legendary Carlos Ghosn to the engineering of new powertrains and vehicles to the way that people work with people …
  by Gary S. Vasilash