Automotive Design & Production

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Articles in Jan 2005 issue of Automotive Design & Production

• Covey's addition
• From NUMMI to MIT to Ford to Hyundai: John Krafcik; The man who helped define "lean" is now helping Hyundai gain ground in the U.S. market by heading up the company's Corporate Planning Div
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Now you see it …
• Robotic deburring for Toyota's F1 team
• Legends & those in the making
• The industry
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• General motors: the road ahead; What should GM do to improve? Advice from the outside
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• The importance of innovation and new product development
  by Kim Korth
• Easier ERP implementation? Historically, enterprise resource planning has the reputation of being a project that takes longer to implement than the tenures of those who OK'd the implementation. Then in the face of the year-2000 crisis, ERP implementation
  by Lawrence S. Gould
• Dealing with rule breakers
  by Ted Pollock
• Six predictions
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Considering diesel catalysts
  by William Kimberley
• The possible future of robots at VW
• Finding the right wavelength for aging eyes
• A cellular approach … to recycling
• Simply irresistible
• Extroverted & specialized: Scion's strategy; Scion's vp Jim Farley talks about the seemingly quirky brand that has made some in the industry who were initially shaking their heads in disbelief to look wide-eyed at the sales that are being racked up
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Market like Microsoft
• Machining gets smarter: machine tools that think? That's the goal of an initiative that wants to make a quantum leap in machine intelligence
  by Kermit Whitfield