Articles from Automotive Design & Production (April 1, 2004)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Better bearings.		Brief Article	176
China: a balanced viewpoint.	Korth, Kim		1117
De-commoditizing the robot: when your products are considered to be fairly fungible with those of your competitors, you can make incremental improvements and hope they are sufficient or you can take a bigger risk and try to make a big difference. The latter is what the people at Motoman selected.	Vasilash, Gary S.		1304
Don't fall for "just another pretty face".	Pollock, Ted		1388
Engineering the LX; Chrysler Group builds a quintessentially American car: a large, rear-wheel-drive car with just a touch of Mercedes.	Sawyer, Christopher A.		1327
Extending die life.		Brief Article	202
Firstek Ltd.		Brief Article	135
For honing teeth.		Brief Article	86
Getting smart about sealant application.		Brief Article	113
Go blue.		Brief Article	275
Inside edition: looking inside 10 interesting vehicles. Some production. Some concepts. All with interesting interiors.	Vasilash, Gary S.	Product/Service Evaluation	1746
Laser bits.		Brief Article	108
Laser system is a bright idea for faster product development: by using a laser scanning system mounted on the arm of a portable CMM and some clever algorithms that provide automatic feature extraction, vehicle manufacturers can further accelerate their time-to-market by having faster turns from CAD to prototypes to production.	Vasilash, Gary S.		1095
Learning to see.			560
Lotus bonds with aluminum.	Whitfield, Kermit	Cover Story	1282
Manifold benefits.		Brief Article	181
Match analysis with materials: material characteristics and differences are sufficiently disparate so that those designers and engineers who are looking for tools to model parts before they're produced ought to consider those that are specific to the requirements.	Gould, Lawrence S.		1494
Multi-tasking gage.		Brief Article	75
Part marking machine.		Brief Article	119
PT Cruiser convertible: designing, engineering & making the drop-top.	Vasilash, Gary S.		754
Saving Lincoln: "in its heyday, every Lincoln had 12 cylinders. Today, all should have 10, and the style to match. It's something the original Edsel Ford would have understood.".	Sawyer, Christopher A.		581
Taking a leap.		Book Review	393
Tech (dis)engagement.	Vasilash, Gary S.		631
The great retro debate: when is a design considered "retro" and when is it a homage to a company's heritage? That's a question even the world's top automotive designers have trouble answering.	Sawyer, Christopher A.	Panel Discussion	1183
The Rofin EasyMark.		Brief Article	80
The smart way of building cars.	Kimberley, William		1563
Volvo S40: all of the Volvo virtues in a smaller package.	Whitfield, Kermit		726