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

Title	Author	Type	Words
Aluminum's deja vu defense: plodding along while steel blunted each of its advantages and delivered common products to automakers at lower prices, the aluminum industry must take a page from the steel industry's playbook if it hopes to be more than the perennial "material of the future.".	Sawyer, Christopher A.		616
Customer selection: a lost art in the automotive industry.	Korth, Kim		590
Delphi's new molding benchmark.			436
Diagramming sentences can save your company billions: this isn't some sort of cryptic plea to hire hungry, unemployed English majors. Rather, a software company--with CIA ties--has developed a means by which problem identification can be performed so that actual problems can be solved before the potential of recalls enter the picture--or text, as it were.	Vasilash, Gary S.		2080
Difference by design.		Book Review	643
Efficiency, variety and quality--keys at Webasto: although some may consider sunroofs commodities, at the Webasto plant in Utting, Germany, that word is eclipsed by "variety," "productivity," and "quality." Just look at the facts.	Sawyer, Christopher A.		736
Electronic technologies to watch: diodes that convert waste heat into electricity, cheap computer chips printed like newspapers, and electromechanical devices that fit on the head of a pin. All of these technologies are in the works and targeted at the automobile, so you should pay attention to them now.	Whitfield, Kermit		1019
Getting out of neutral.	Vasilash, Gary S.		604
GM speeds time to market through blistering fast processors: General Motors' vehicle development process gets a big boost from the latest in supercomputers.	Gould, Lawrence S.		1590
GM's real-world European fuel cell adventure.	Kimberley, William		1797
How to handle anger.	Pollock, Ted		1360
Hybrid hullabaloo: forget about trying to decide who was first. Ford's Escape is not only America's first entry in the hybrid race, it's the first full-hybrid SUV.	Sawyer, Christopher A.		876
Moving it: tools for handling materials.		Buyers Guide	641
Nissan: how to achieve shift; It wasn't all that long ago that Nissan was down and thought to be on its way out. But the company has cleverly and aggressively done a 180 and is now providing returns that other vehicle manufacturers would undoubtedly love to achieve. Here's part of what they did.	Vasilash, Gary S.	Cover Story	952
Power ... and beauty.		Book Review	443
Reaching planet stylist: ICEM claims its new concept design software can speed vehicle development by translating stylists' sketches directly into engineering data.	Whitfield, Kermit		625
Restoring character.	Sawyer, Christopher A.		578
Stuck happens.		Book Review	333
Subaru's fourth-generation Legacy.			505
Telematics transforms trucking.			317
Wholly [in] Toledo!			432