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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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New Displays Could Lower Risk of Small Aircraft Midair Collisions
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed new modifications for technology that helps pilots of small aircraft avoid midair collisions. The modified tools...
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Alpina’s Tuning Magic Transforms BMW Gas, Diesel Engines
BMW is one of the world’s outstanding engine producers. So why would a small, independent company called Alpina believe it could take those engines and make them even better —...
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Boeing Opens Research Center in Brazil to Develop Aerospace Technologies
Boeing opened a new research and technology center to work with Brazilian researchers and scientists to develop aerospace technologies. The new Boeing Research &...
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GE Aviation Breaks Ground on West Jefferson, NC, Facility
GE Aviation recently broke ground for its new machining factory in West Jefferson, NC. The new 80,000-ft² expansion will allow for increased capacity as the shop assumes additional...
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Improving Lignocellulosic Biofuel Biorefining
When making cellulosic ethanol from plants, one problem is what to do with a woody agricultural waste product called lignin. New research from scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology,...
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Dana Brings CVP Technology to Lighter-Duty Equipment
Dana Holding Corp. took advantage of the venue of CeMAT to announce progress with its VariGlide technology, a new transmission design that incorporates continuously variable planetary...
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Multimedia Analyzer
ViCANdo from Zuragon is a multimedia software tool for development, physical testing, and validation of various applications such as vehicle fleets, hybrid-electric systems, active safety systems, autonomous vehicles, and...
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New Power Steering Concept Uses Variable Displacement Pump
Modern on-highway vehicles have been making steady strides when it comes to employing technological advances featuring active safety systems. However, off-highway machines are...
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Boeing 737 MAX LEAP-1B Engine Begins Ground Testing
CFM International has initiated ground testing of the first all-new LEAP-1B engine that will exclusively power the Boeing 737 MAX. CFM ran the engine for the first time on June 13, three...
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Patton Named Executive Vice President of DIAM’s Engineering Division
Denso announced Thursday the promotion of Doug Patton to Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer of Denso International America Inc. (DIAM)....
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Cable Installation Simulator
A cable installation simulator from W. L. Gore & Associates aids in evaluating the stress of installation on microwave airframe assemblies, thereby minimizing the risk of cable assembly damage or failure during...
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RTD Sensors
Omega’s PR-21 series of RTD (resistance temperature detector) sensors with M12 connector feature a welded 316L stainless steel housing and an integral four-pin M12 connector for easy connection. They provide a fast response time...
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Ford Debuts New Airbag Design in 2015 Mustang
The 2015 Mustang will feature a new design of an inflatable knee airbag, Ford announced June 20. Packaged inside the glove box, the new airbag provides protection comparable to its traditional...
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JCB Providing Additional High-Speed Backhoes to U.S. Army
JCB will be supplying high-speed backhoe loaders to the U.S. Army under a $50 million contract. The High Mobility Engineer Excavators (HMEEs) will be manufactured at JCB’s North...
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The Drive for Driverless Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles are a hot topic, most noticeably in the automotive world where high-profile projects such as the Google Self-Driving Car receive plenty of press. But automated driving/operation is...
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A Look Inside Lithium-Ion Batteries
A group of researchers from MIT say they have observed the inner workings of a type of electrode widely used in lithium-ion batteries, and may be able to explain “the unexpectedly high power and long...
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TI Predicts That Low Energy Bluetooth Will Displace Cables
Texas Instruments hopes to extend the role of Bluetooth with one of the first devices that use Bluetooth Smart, a low-power version of the standard that’s already a mainstay in...
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Problems Persist for Vehicle Owners Using Technology, J.D. Power Study Finds
Lack of voice recognition and clumsy Bluetooth pairing were cited by owners of all-new vehicles as being among the most common type of problems they experience in the first 90 days of vehicle ownership.
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Tesla Aerodynamicists Use CFD to Evaluate Yaw Performance
Automotive aerodynamics ultimately resolves into the six forces and moments that a vehicle moving through an environment experiences. In wind-tunnel testing, the typical frame of...
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Field-Deployable Computing Platform
Elma Electronic Inc.’s S50J computing platform is a reliable and rugged, field-deployable system with abundant configurable I/O for maximum design versatility. Most I/O schemes can be supported using...
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Thermoplastics Added to Modeling Database
Three high-performance thermoplastics from Victrex have been added to the Digimat-MX material and modeling database to accelerate the application development process while helping to minimize component...
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Airbus Group and Safran Join Forces in Launcher Activities
Airbus Group and Safran are further strengthening their relationship to propose a new family of competitive, versatile, and efficient space launchers, to serve both commercial and...
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Next-Gen Seatbelt Retractor
TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. has launched its next-generation seatbelt retractor, the Floating Spool 1 (FS1), which offers reduced weight (about 15% lighter) and smaller dimensions compared to previous systems,...
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Hatz's Next-Generation Industrial Compact Engine
This past January, Hatz Diesel began series production and sales of its brand new four-cylinder 4H50TIC diesel engine. Hatz announced at ConExpo that during the development of the 2-L...
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Hyundai, Ford Pursue Structural Composites Despite Challenges
The lightweighting potential of composite materials is undeniable. But harnessing that potential in a reasonably economic way is the crux to widespread composites use in vehicle...
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