Automotive Design & Production

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Articles in Dec 2005 issue of Automotive Design & Production

• Flexible automation deployment strengthens in North America
• A new twist
• PLM: what it is [a view]
• The new members of the SRT team
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• In gear
• F1 biplanes?
• Additional ABCs about PLM
  by Lawrence S. Gould
• GM Ypsilanti begins 6-speed production
• Deep knowledge—& the absense thereof
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Bucci Industries USA, Inc
• Mattin's challenge: changing Volvo's design—just enough
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• Creating clever things with plastics: the auto industry and its suppliers are coming up with some clever ways to do everything from saving gasoline to providing pedestrian protection with plastics. Here are the category winners in the SPE Automotive Div.'
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Improving crank output
• Mobile instrumentation—in the development lab
• Bosch pursues diesel technology
  by William Kimberley
• Producing cool cars
• Tripping the light fantastic: forget dials and pointers, LCD screens, and incandescent illumination. If OLED technology can live up to its promise, automotive interiors will be very different places
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• The canary croaked & other circumstances to avoid
• Ford's leadership debacle
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• 2006 Lincoln Zephyr
• Kia getting the message out
• Corning filters diesel exhaust for VW
• From Accent to Azera: hot off the success of the new Sonata, Hyundai takes on a new Accent and replaces the unloved XG350 with a contemporary large sedan
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• How much does R & D matter?
  by Melissa Anderson
• Improving E/E design
• GM developing smarter cars: when drivers are distracted, inattentive, or otherwise not doing what they're supposed to be doing while behind the wheel, communications technology, sensors, GPS, and powerful processors just might make all the difference, as
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• Reductions & relocations: the suppliers' challenges
  by Marcus Berret
• Down-to-earth ideas from the top