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Rapid Overmolding Process
Proto Labs Inc. (Maple Plain, MN) has expanded its rapid injection molding offerings with the launch of its new overmolding process. The company claims this new capability can produce 25 to 10,000+ custom overmolded...
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Bob Lutz: What Makes a Great Engineer?
Throughout the 2016 documentary film Live Another Day about the fall and rise of the Detroit-3 automakers, former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz shows the insight and enthusiasm that made him one of the...
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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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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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In Search of Higher-Energy-Content Batteries
As suppliers, automakers, and others join forces to develop high-performance battery components aimed at increasing the range of electric vehicles, current advanced batteries are edging closer to...
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First-Of-Its Kind High-Volume Production Cell Set to Start Producing Competitive CNG Tanks for Auto Industry
Composite machine manufacturer Mikrosam delivered a fully automated filament winding line for CNG tanks to automotive supplier...
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Ram Rebel TRX Concept Has 2017 Ford Raptor in Its Sights
It was a showdown between the latest full-size performance pickups at the 2016 State Fair of Texas in Dallas, where SAE torque and towing ratings are worshiped as devoutly as homemade...
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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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Interactive 3D PDF Technology
Tech Soft 3D (Bend, OR) offers enhancements to its Tetra 4D Converter, a powerful solution for converting 3D CAD to 3D PDFs, and Tetra4D Enrich, a new application that enables anyone to create rich, interactive 3D...
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Honda’s All-New 2017 CR-V: Larger, Lighter, Turbocharged
Barely a week after Honda announced its CR-V compact crossover posted an all-time U.S. sales record for the month of September, the company revealed an all-new, fifth-generation...
Product Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
High-Flow Transmission Valve
Nachi America, Inc.’s (Greenwood, IN) automotive hydraulics division has developed a 2-way automatic transmission valve that supports the increased OE demands for large volumes of transmission fluid. New...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
PLM Platform for Manufacturing Process Planning
Aras Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP) is a new product lifecycle management (PLM) platform-based application from Aras (Andover, MA) for managing the complex business processes that extend...
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Nissan Unveils 2018 Production Variable-Compression-Ratio ICE
Nissan broke new ground for gasoline engines at the 2016 Paris Motor Show when it unveiled the first production-intent variable-compression-ratio gasoline engine. The VC-Turbo, a...
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MEMS the Word for Next-gen HUDs
Nearly 30 years after the first automotive head-up display (HUD) for production cars was offered by GM on the 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and Pontiac Grand Prix — and 55 years after the first airborne...
Articles Transportation
Delphi’s Multi-domain Mindset
Mary Gustanski lives in a James Bond movie. It hasn’t yet been released but she’s certain it will be at some future date. In her film-nightmare, the evil-genius villain on the remote island has hacked...
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Steering Mazda’s Unique Course
In 1999 Mazda Motor Corp.’s current Chairman, Seita Kanai, had just taken over as program manager for the first-generation Atenza/ Mazda6. The new car was a top priority and its success was deemed vital...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Custom-Designed and Special Tooling
In addition to Heimatec's (Prospect Heights, IL) standard tooling line, the company offers custom-designed and special tooling service. These tools are designed to suit specific requirements for all CNC...
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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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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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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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U.S. DoT Chooses SAE J3016 for Vehicle-Autonomy Policy Guidance
The U.S. Dept. of Transportation's policy guidance released Sept. 20 on the testing and deployment of automated vehicles validates SAE International's J3016 standard as the global...
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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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NanoSteel Confident Its New AHSS Is Ready for Volume Production
Steel-technology development specialist NanoSteel is expanding its customer base for the new advanced high-strength alloys currently undergoing testing by OEMs and Tier 1s, as...
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Jaguar Land Rover Constructs Slovakian Manufacturing Plant to Support 'A Truly Global Business'
Construction has started on a new Jaguar Land Rover manufacturing facility in Nitra, Slovakia. According to the company, the 300,000 m²...
Product Briefs Aerospace
Anti-Friction Coating
Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, MI) offers a new silver-metallic color for a proven Molykote brand anti-friction coating (AFC) to enhance design options for reducing friction, noise and wear on various automotive components. According to Dow, the new silver-colored Molykote D-709 anti-friction coating offers the same...
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SAE Survey: Mobility Engineers Getting Younger
SAE International recently released the results of its 2016 Mobility Engineering Professionals Salary Survey that also includes an interactive online Salary Calculator. Among the survey's key...
Product Briefs Aerospace
Non-Hazardous Specialty Polymers
EpoxySet Inc. (Lincoln, RI) has released SetWORX specialty polymers, a line of high-performance materials. According to the company, SetWORX was developed to be non-hazardous for shipping, therefore reducing...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in U.S. Diesel-Emissions Coverup
A veteran Volkswagen AG engineer pleaded guilty in federal court to a criminal charge for his involvement in the German automaker’s ongoing diesel-emissions scandal,...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Creating a ‘Green’ Value Stream with LPPD
James Morgan, Ph.D, is a senior advisor for lean product and process development at the Lean Enterprise Institute. A former global director of Body Exterior, Safety, and Stamping Engineering at...
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