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Volkswagen Group of America Names New EVP of Group Quality
Volkswagen Group of America has named Stefan Schüller as its new Executive Vice President of Group Quality, effective July 1.
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Sports Cars Embrace Array of Green Technology
The International Motor Sports Association’s Tudor United SportsCar Championship is the newly merged racing series for sports car racing in North America, ending the split between the American...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Resistors with Gold-Plated Contacts
A member of the VMx precision resistor family with gold-plated contacts, Isabellenhütte’s VMx-A series of gold-plated low-ohmic resistors are suitable for mounting with conductive adhesive on...
News Electronics & Computers
Flash Devices
Spansion Inc. extends its automotive flash memory portfolio with the addition of six automotive-grade devices. The three new Serial NOR and three new NAND memory densities are specifically qualified to meet the extended...
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Electronic Horizon Technology
A new version of Elektrobit's (EB's) Assist Electronic Horizon Solution features new functions that offer more flexibility for implementing predictive driver assistance systems. With the new version, carmakers and...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Contamination Protection for Hydraulics
Fluid Line Products, Inc. has released what it calls the Anti Blocker, a device designed to protect sensitive or expensive control mechanisms in hydraulic operating systems. A steel mesh filter element...
News Transportation
Clearing the Air on 2025 GDI Engines
Powertrain engineers who attended this year’s SAE International High-Efficiency Engine Symposium and World Congress heard one message loud and clear: Don’t bet against the internal combustion...
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Chrysler Names New Head of Product Planning
Chrysler recently announced the appointment of Benjamin Winter as the new NAFTA Head of Product Planning. With this appointment, he is also named to the Chrysler Group Leadership Team. The...
News Test & Measurement
Camber to Lead Integration for Lone Star UAS Test Site
Camber Corp. signed an agreement with Texas A&M–Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) to be the lead systems and business integrator for the Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center (LSUASC)...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Formula E Racers Zap Expectations
On a global scale, racecars burn an irrelevant amount of fuel, so racing series’ interest in fuel-saving technology has nothing to do with saving the planet from racecars’ environmental impact.
News Software
Harley-Davidson Debuts LiveWire Electric Motorcycle Project
Harley-Davidson has for a number of years dispatched an engineer to SAE's annual Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Symposium for the purpose of gathering intel and making contacts in...
News Automotive
Hardware Variation Remains a Challenge for Modular Platform Solutions
Despite the burgeoning success of highly effective single platform modular solutions that can span sports car to SUV applications, and the broadening of electronically...
News Automotive
Partnership to Facilitate Flow of Innovation from Silicon Valley to Auto Industry
The Autotech Council announced Thursday in a release that it is joining the AutoHarvest Foundation as a strategic partner.
News Design
Ford Reveals Five-Row Side-Curtain Airbag, an Industry First
Ford Motor Co. debuted this week the only five-row side-curtain airbag in the automotive industry, according to a company release. The airbag, which is featured in the 2015...
News Transportation
Readying Ferrari Car for Endurance Racing
In just two racing seasons, a Ferrari racecar logged more than 21,748 mi (35,000 km) competing at tracks in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship Pro-Am class.
News RF & Microwave Electronics
IEEE Forms Study Group for Greater Ethernet Capability
IEEE has announced formation of the IEEE 802.3 Single Twisted Pair 100 Mb/s Ethernet Study Group to explore the market opportunities and needs for a 100 Mb/s speed for Ethernet in automotive networking. Many vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers desire IEEE 802.3 standards-based...
News Materials
Oak Ridge Unveils Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has launched its new Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, which aims to accelerate discovery,...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
ATK to Provide UltraFlex Solar Arrays for Upcoming Mars Mission
Lockheed Martin Space Systems awarded a contract to ATK to provide UltraFlex solar arrays for NASA's InSight Lander mission, which will place a lander on Mars in 2016 to study...
News Manned Systems
Saab Developing New Methods for Optimizing Flight Efficiency
The NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI) awarded Saab a cooperative agreement to prototype and test a new tool for the optimization of air traffic across multiple phases of...
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Tools Reduce Cycle Time
BENZ Inc. has four new tooling systems: the LinA and LinS broaching tools, C-axis Angle Head, and Mini Flex-Angle Head. Both the BENZ LinA and LinS broaching tools perform I.D. and O.D. broaching with one tool. I.D. and O.D. keyways, splines, torx, and hex shapes can be machined with the same tool. Use of the LinA and LinS...
Executive Viewpoints Energy
EPA-OTAQ Chief on GHG Mandate: ‘Things Look Really Good’
The most encouraging aspect of the U.S. federal government’s mandates on fuel economy and greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions is that “customers are buying more fuel efficiency...
News Propulsion
Chrysler Expands Stop-Start to 200, Jeep Cherokee
Chrysler is cascading its stop-start system in the NAFTA region to certain versions of the Jeep Cherokee and Chrysler 200 later this year, promising fuel-economy improvements of up to 3%...
News Automotive
New Aramco Research Center in Detroit to Advance Fuels and Engine Development
The automobile and petroleum industries have a history or working toward common goals. Examples from history include gasoline with the additive tetra-ethyl-lead...
News Design
Clegg to Lead GM's North America Manufacturing
General Motors announced Tuesday several personnel changes in leadership. Cathy Clegg was appointed Vice President of North America Manufacturing, effective July 1. Clegg will lead more than...
News Design
SAE Pursues Standard for Engine-Off Airbag Deactivation
SAE International is gauging interest in development of an SAE recommended practice addressing the relationship between engine status and airbag functionality. Keith Wilson, Technical...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Tests New Rocket Booster Connection to its Limits
A critical connection between NASA's new rocket and its twin solid rocket boosters that will help it get to space proved it could withstand millions of pounds of launch stress during a...
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
Mobile Robots Help Technicians Manufacture Airplanes
A new mobile assistant is being developed to support technicians in the airplane manufacturing industry when applying sealant, measuring, and testing — without putting them at risk. In the...
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