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Dassault Aviation, Reliance Infrastructure Form Strategic Partnership
France's Dassault Aviation and India's Reliance Group announced in late September 2016 the creation of a joint venture (JV) in India called Dassault Reliance Aerospace.
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Additive Manufacturing, Virtual Reality Add to Aerospace Design Repertoire
Images of exciting and futuristic-looking aircraft might capture the imagination of the next generation of would-be aerospace engineers, but the most spectacular...
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Wireless Re-Charging Technology to Keep Drones Flying Perpetually
Scientists from Imperial College London have demonstrated that they can wirelessly transfer power to a drone. The technology uses inductive coupling, a concept initially...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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