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Articles in August, 2006 issue of Automotive Design & Production

• The onboard silicon challenge
• Charm school: perhaps the real fundamental issue regarding the performance of detroit is that they need to spend less time worrying about hours per vehicle and more time attending charm school
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• The global neighborhood
• Laser-sintered shift knob
• The global play: Warren Buffett & Bill Gates will buy all the automakers around the world and make happy cars that emit zero pollutants & run on imagination
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• SGI's clusters tailored for CAE
• Supercar gearbox
• Cost-effective flex for assembly lines
• Development test bench
• It's just business: you're not Joe Pesci or Robert De Niro whispering in some thugs ear. "It's just business" isn't acceptable anymore
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Tuning in to auto entertainment
  by Melissa Anderson
• An inconvenient truth: GM cares about the environment: although some people might think that GM is about plundering and polluting the planet, the corporation has long been committed to owning up to its corporate responsibility—which includes working
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Achieving precision assembly
• Safety is in the bag
• What makes CPD collaborative? Collaborative product development is more than just slinging 3D models back and forth and viewing them. Here's a sample of some of the technologies working behind the scenes
  by Lawrence S. Gould
• Positioning for productivity
• Lean for buildings
• Supercharger drive
• The sound of steel
• Details on the development of the Audi R10 TDI: here's another look at the revolutionary diesel development by Audi that shows that diesel-powered cars can compete with—and beat—the best gasoline-powered sports cars
  by William Kimberley
• Telaak's challenge: redesigning an automotive icon
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• Master the mess
• Corn-based engineering plastics on the way
• Urban mobility just got a little easier
• Survival strategies for automotive suppliers
  by Erkut Uludag
• Trust but verify: Ronald Reagan's arms control slogan also applies to establishing sustainable processes. Rigid adherence to pre-set goals can stifle necessary innovation
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Just what out-of-shape America needs!
• Buell Motorcycle engineering, innovation, & dedication: in an industry marked by foreign domination, Erik Buell not only established America's only sport bike maker, he changed the rules of design, engineering and procurement in ways the auto industry
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• Russian science gets attention
• Sound check: making a vehicle sound good takes more than a good ear and lots of prototypes
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• "Chrome" without electroplating
• Krafcik on customers & competitors: Hyundai is rapidly ascending the rankings of consumer quality lists—lists that it once bumped along the bottoms of. So what is the strategy that has transformed something of an also-ran to a strong competitor?
  by Gary S. Vasilash