Automotive Design & Production

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Articles in March 2004 issue of Automotive Design & Production

• Toward the "connected car"; Two big trends in automotive electronics: in-car entertainment and wireless connectivity are merging to make vehicles full-fledged "nodes" on the infotainment superhighway
  by Kermit Whitfield
• Talking about technology under the hood: A Q & A with Dr. Gerd Kleinert, CEO of Kolbenschmidt Pierburg, a Germany-based tier-one supplier with operations from Shanghai to South Carolina
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Lights! Camera! Quality! At Johnson Controls' annual Team Rally, acting skills are nearly as important as the ability to explain Six Sigma
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Assembly: how standard can you get? For assembly equipment, standardization is becoming the standard. Which leads us to ask: how long before you can order an entire assembly line from a catalog?
  by Kermit Whitfield
• Do you have fans or customers?
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Composites 2004: the sky's the limit composites technology soars
• How to teach more effectively
  by Ted Pollock
• High velocity materials improvement: here's how better rust protection can be applied to body panels and electrical machines can be created on planar surfaces—both with the same process
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• What makes an automotive supplier "strategic"?
  by John Cleveland
• Heavyweight collaboration through lightweight JT: the ability to visualize design data of various types across platforms is now possible through a file format named "JT." What's more, the file sizes are but a fraction of what's ordinarily been t
  by Lawrence S. Gould
• Windy and hot
• One pumped-up automatic
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• The general direction: GM execs speak
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Honda's descent into hell
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Infiniti goes big: the full-size QX56 is not only a big SUV, but the division and its parent, Nissan, are clearly thinking big as they are filling up the Canton, Mississippi, assembly plant with new, innovative products
  by Gary S. Vasilash