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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Additive Manufacturing Today, Growing Airplanes, Literally, Tomorrow?

If 3D virtual reality and additive manufacturing (AM) are indicative of one direction that disruptive developments are taking the aerospace engineering sector, then...

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Automotive

Bosch Expands Development Activities in India

Global technology and services supplier the Bosch Group is strengthening its presence in the Indian growth market. In 2016, Bosch plans to invest more than 100 million euros in its Indian...

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Automotive

Indian JV Offers Engineering Services for BIW Weld Shops

Pinnacle Industries and VDL Groep, of Eindhoven, Netherlands, partnered in August 2016 to establish VDL Pinnacle Engineering India in Pune, India. The joint venture will provide...

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Defense

Fiber Laser Sensor Technology for Structural Health Monitoring

According to Dr. Geoffrey Cranch, a research physicist from the Optical Sciences Division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), none of the U.S. military services are...

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Automotive

Nexteer Opens Manufacturing Plant in Pune

Nexteer Automotive opened a new manufacturing plant in Pune, India in late September, which makes it the third manufacturing plant in India for the China-owned steering and driveline supplier....

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Electronics & Computers

Design Simplicity Is Key to New 48-V Systems

The ubiquitous 12-volt battery may soon have a partner. Engineers are ironing out the kinks in 48-volt architectures being employed to power demanding systems, sparking expectations that deployment will skyrocket over the next few years.

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RF & Microwave Electronics

TULIPP Project Aims to Improve ADAS Image Processing

A new European research initiative to develop high-performance, energy-efficient embedded systems for image-processing applications has implications for next-generation automotive ADAS...

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Electronics & Computers

Bridging the Automotive/consumer Electronics Product Cycle Gap

Vehicle owners increasingly expect to move seamlessly between homes, offices, and vehicles. That trend is forcing the entire automotive supply chain to focus on techniques for...

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Electronics & Computers

KBB Survey: Most Consumers Would Accept SAE Level 4 Autonomy, but Think Safety Diminishes

Automotive vehicle valuation and shopping website Kelly Blue Book released results of a national survey regarding autonomous-vehicle technology and...

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Defense

PPG Primes Second Location for New Aerospace E-Coat Pilot System

PPG opened a new coatings research center in Marly, France, in September 2016, the company’s second investment for an Aerocron e-coat primer installation. Like its first...

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Defense

SAE and TARDEC Create New Military-Tech Consortium

Signaling a trend toward closer and more efficient technical collaboration between the U.S. government and private industry, officials from SAE International and TARDEC, the U.S. Army...

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Automotive

New Valeo Clutch Disc a 'Downspeeding Enabler'

Methods to improve fuel economy, even if incrementally, is a pervasive topic at the booths of global truck and bus OEMs and their suppliers at the IAA Commercial Vehicles tradeshow in Hanover,...

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Automotive

SAE 2016 Convergence: Touch Screens, Speech, HUD the Likely Future of In-Car Interface

Touch screens are far from perfect and the state of speech-recognition remains marginal, but those are the two driver-interface technologies consumers...

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Electronics & Computers

Connected Car, Autonomy Disruptions to Ripple Through Supply Chain

Many factors are making the next few years one of most disruptive eras the automotive industry has ever seen. Diverse dynamics such as connectivity and autonomy will...

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Automotive

Debating Government's Role in V2X

While U.S. regulators were preparing the first policy guidance on autonomous-vehicle testing and development, released Sept. 20, OEMs were discussing whether they can achieve broad usage of...

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Energy

SAE Battery Standards Committees Prepare for Next-Gen Chemistries

“We’re just at the beginning of a steep growth curve for both electric vehicles and energy storage, and SAE International is going to play a huge role in that by setting...

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Materials

Steel Piston and Coating System Reduce Cost of Ownership for CV Engines

Requirements for heavy-duty diesel engines are driving a system approach for Mahle’s piston and coating development. The MonoLite piston combined with a new...

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Automotive

Evaluating Real-World Aerodynamics for a Class 8 Tractor-Trailer

Researchers from Exa Corp. and Navistar compared a model in wind tunnel (WT) testing to computational fluid dynamic (CFD) WT over the entire yaw curve. Their study also...

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Automotive

Cyber Assurance Test Bed for Heavy Vehicle Controls

To help connect security researchers to heavy trucks, a remotely accessible test bed is prototyped by researchers at the University of Tulsa, Colorado State University and Synercon...

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Electronics & Computers

Insurers Look to Partner with OEMs, App Providers to Meet Connected-Car Challenges

The connected car’s emergence is as disruptive for insurance companies as it is for automakers. Usage based insurance (UBI) holds a major role in future...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Mahindra Connects Vehicles Via Cloud-Based Technology Platform

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (M&M) has launched DiGiSENSE, a technology solution that connects Mahindra vehicles, tractors, trucks and construction equipment to the cloud....

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Electronics & Computers

Thumbs up for Gesturing with Time-Of-Flight Cameras?

Time-of-flight (ToF) cameras are ready to let drivers control some of the many options of today’s infotainment systems with a mere wave of their hand. ToF-based systems can also monitor...

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Aerospace

Self-Piercing Rivets Shoot for Vehicle-Lightweighting Applications Beyond Aluminum

Growth of lightweight vehicle body and closure panel applications in the coming years, and particularly greater use of aluminum, is driving increased use of...

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Defense

Growing Pains (And Gains) of P&W's Pure Power Engine

After many years of flat-lining in the supply of new commercial jet engines—with improved models, but with designs dating back to the late 1990s, relying on a continuous path of...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Ford Promises Full-Autonomous Car in 2021

Get ready for the “pod” car: Ford announced today that it intends to mass-produce a driverless, fully autonomous vehicle for commercial ride-sharing or ride-hailing service in 2021.

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RF & Microwave Electronics

OTA Updating Brings Benefits, Challenges

The race to build up an infrastructure for over-the-air (OTA) updating is heating up as suppliers go all-out to gain a spot in a field that’s expected to see momentous growth. Warranty costs, cyber...

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Test & Measurement

New Virtual Tools Tackle Real-World Emissions Testing

“Real-world” fuel consumption and emissions testing is becoming central to OEM new car/new powertrain programs. But it brings new challenges and potentially financial headaches to a...

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Automotive

BMW I3 Battery Replacement Is $16,000

What happens if you buy an electric car and, at some point in your ownership, have to replace the battery?

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Transportation

First Chevrolet Medium-Duty Truck Rolls off Assembly Line at Spartan Motors

Spartan Motors, along with General Motors and Isuzu Commercial Truck of America executives, celebrated the new Chevrolet medium-duty, gasoline-powered trucks as the...

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