Automotive Design & Production

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Articles in Dec, 2002 issue of Automotive Design & Production

• French firms at the Paris show: styling - Auto Euro - European motor show
  by William Kimberley
• A tale of two applications - WIP - advanced polymer formulations - Brief Article
  by Kermit Whitfield
• Delphi's Wet/Dry door modules - WIP - modularization design
• Frasher's odyssey: with the design of its XC90 SUV, Volvo had to navigate between the scylla of me-too trucky styling and the charybdis of station wagon wimpiness - Design - overcoming difficult design problems for new Volvo sedan
• The electronics outlook at Bosch - Manage
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Torqued up - Ergonomically - In Gear
• Quick conveyors - In Gear - new single strand chain conveyor - Brief Article
• Work smarter, get more done - On the Management Side - improving worker productivity
  by Ted Pollock
• Management books for a changing world - System Approach is strategy for industrial organizations' demands
• Surveying the automotive e-business landscape: as an automotive supplier, where do you go to transact automotive e-business? You hop onto the 'net and then what? You've got a lot of roads in front of you - Manage - auto business-to-business market
  by Lawrence S. Gould
• Flexible injection molding machines - In Gear - Machine uses AC servo motor - Brief Article
• long-range sensing - Relatively - In Gear - new magnetic proximity sensor - Brief Article
• Safety & Suppliers: is there a market for you? - Insight - automotive safety market
  by Melissa Anderson
• Receptive minds - WIP - Father of lateral thinking
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Faster fluid flow simulation - WIP - fluid flow and heat transfer simulation software
  by Kermit Whitfield
• Danger head - Engineer - electronic chassis technologies
  by Kermit Whitfield
• 3D scanning - In Gear - new Cobra 3D laser scanner - Brief Article
• Fast, accurate laser - In Gear - 790 BeamDirector 5-axis laser machine
• The Lexus GX 470: you want me to drive this where? - On Cars - Sport utility vehicle
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Sealing it up - WIP - 3M's door sealing tape
• Getting the hex outta here - WIP - North American automotive finishing industry affected by EU rules
  by Kermit Whitfield
• Building bodies better, faster cheaper - Produce - Honda and Toyota raise productivity
  by Kermit Whitfield
• Light on its feet - On Materials - aluminum Jaguar S-type
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Mechanical tolerance analysis software - In Gear - new mechanical tolerance analysis software - Brief Article
• Homeland security vs. global supply chains - Technology Update Information - new U.S. Customs Service policies
  by Martin Piszczalski
• Steering toward greater stability - WIP - Continental-Teves North America demonstrates its ESP II stability system
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Smart's paintless roof - WIP - DaimlerChrysler's SMART division
• Three essential books for every business, large or small - asset management strategies
• Fun with five axes - In Gear - Variaxis 500 Vertical Machining Center
• You can't get there from here - Dudder - auto industry trends
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Ordinarily different - Marginal - new research on millionaires - Brief Article
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Design to reality: the Z4 roadster; imagine having an idea that is transformed without a whole lot of modification into a series of cars rolling off the assembly line. BMW's Anders warming is one of the few who have had that experience - Design - Danish c
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• High class film - In Gear - new in-mold decorating film product
• Oh Brother - In Gear - new taper machine - Brief Article
• Beyond OEM: where the money is - WIP - Original Equipment Manufacturer
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Fire! - In Gear - new design access and visualization software - Brief Article
• Nissan builds an SUV for the suburban gentry - On Cars - Nissan's Murano Sport Utility Vehicle
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Making manifolds—prototypes, that is - WIP - computational fluid dynamics
• Something to watch over me - WIP - new driver assistance systems - Brief Article
• The electronics bazaar: stripped of hype that died with the dot.com craze, the 2002 Convergence conference concentrated on the feasible, not pie-in-the-sky - Engineer - auto electronics industry