Automotive Design & Production

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Articles in Feb 2005 issue of Automotive Design & Production

• Calculating the formula
• De facto black boxes
• Optimizer or pragmatist? One theory focuses on value to the corporation. The other focuses on value to the customer. Any guess which is the real long-term strategy?
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Compact CMM
• Mental power tool
• Piping light via plastic
• Plastic tensioners for the Cayenne
• Improved interior material
• Powertrains: global collaborations … hybrids … V-blocks … & even spark plugs!
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Sacre bleu!
• A Lexus like no other but like the rest: introducing the RX 400h: luxury, not economy
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• The collaboration solution
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• It's a car!
• Delphi's domestic strategy: while Delphi will continue to work at being the largest supplier of mobile automotive electronics, it is working to create awareness and preference among everyday car audio buyers, not just the people at the OEMs
  by Kermit Whitfield
• Ready for that appraisal?
  by Ted Pollock
• Extreme batteries
• Tires of the future? If automotive tire upstart Amerityre can perfect its polyurethane tires, we may soon have to revise the phrase "where the rubber meets the road."
  by Kermit Whitfield
• Benefits of lean in the accounting department
  by John Cleveland
• From cad to creation—with a series of clicks
• Riding the steel roller coaster: rapid growth in China and a long-term trend of removing under-productive capacity in developed nations, has put steel prices on an upward run. It may take years before there's a substantive change, says Professor Anthony P
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• The steel scene
  by William Kimberley
• Are you experienced?
• Interesting steel developments
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Composite analysis for Ford GT
• Whirling threads
• What you need to know about supply chain management: while there are the occasional horror stories about botched SCM implementations, if you have a good understanding of what you want to achieve and a measured approach to implementation, you can prevent t
  by Lawrence S. Gould