Automotive Design & Production

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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 company—with CIA ties—has 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 quality—keys 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