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Articles in July 2004 issue of Automotive Design & Production
- Getting out of neutral
by Gary S. Vasilash - GM speeds time to market through blistering fast processors: General Motors' vehicle development process gets a big boost from the latest in supercomputers
by Lawrence S. Gould - How to handle anger
by Ted Pollock - Diagramming sentences can save your company billions: this isn't some sort of cryptic plea to hire hungry, unemployed English majors. Rather, a software companywith CIA tieshas developed a means by which problem identification can be performed
by Gary S. Vasilash - Wholly [in] Toledo!
- Reaching planet stylist: ICEM claims its new concept design software can speed vehicle development by translating stylists' sketches directly into engineering data
by Kermit Whitfield - Delphi's new molding benchmark
- Restoring character
by Christopher A. Sawyer - GM's real-world European fuel cell adventure
by William Kimberley - Nissan: how to achieve shift; It wasn't all that long ago that Nissan was down and thought to be on its way out. But the company has cleverly and aggressively done a 180 and is now providing returns that other vehicle manufacturers would undoubtedly love
by Gary S. Vasilash - Customer selection: a lost art in the automotive industry
by Kim Korth - Hybrid hullabaloo: forget about trying to decide who was first. Ford's Escape is not only America's first entry in the hybrid race, it's the first full-hybrid SUV
by Christopher A. Sawyer - Subaru's fourth-generation Legacy
- Electronic technologies to watch: diodes that convert waste heat into electricity, cheap computer chips printed like newspapers, and electromechanical devices that fit on the head of a pin. All of these technologies are in the works and targeted at the au
by Kermit Whitfield - Stuck happens
- Efficiency, variety and qualitykeys at Webasto: although some may consider sunroofs commodities, at the Webasto plant in Utting, Germany, that word is eclipsed by "variety," "productivity," and "quality." Just look at t
by Christopher A. Sawyer - Power … and beauty
- Moving it: tools for handling materials
- Difference by design
- Aluminum's deja vu defense: plodding along while steel blunted each of its advantages and delivered common products to automakers at lower prices, the aluminum industry must take a page from the steel industry's playbook if it hopes to be more than the pe
by Christopher A. Sawyer - Telematics transforms trucking