It would be interesting to see this automobile prototyping system. An automotive engineering firm celebrated its acquisition by an Indian automaker and its...
I recently asked some questions about scanning stamped components as an aid to producing tooling to clone them. This is from www.perceptron.com _____ ...
Clinton Township-based Kuka Robotics Corp. 0n 2005-11-01 announced it had received a $2.8 million purchase order from Grenzebach Corporation of Newnan, Georgia...
UGS to host charity premiere for 'A Car Is Born': Plano, Texas-based UGS Corp. Thursday announced a charity premiere of a television documentary, "A Car Is...
Will the Big Three Still be Building Cars 10 Years from Now? Contract manufacturers be prepared: A radical ideal is sweeping the automotive industry, calling...
I happened to notice that I was passing the US Engineering Center of Magna Steyr as I drove through Rochester Hills, Michigan, this weekend. This caused me to...
Jim: The accepted definition of a job shop is a manufacturing enterprise devoted to producing special or custom made parts or products usually in small...
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In the news of the latest GM downsizing I haven't heard GM shouting from the rooftops "We are implementing a culture of continuous improvement". They may have...
The November 13, 2005 issue of the "Tech Center News" has a little article called "State Jobs Turning High Tech" by Staff Reporter Andrea Lipinski. This...
The October 31, 2005 issue of the Troy Somerset Gazette has an article called $B!H(BUAW - At Risk of Flushing The Big Three$B!I(B by Peter Maurer. His ...
When I worked for Chrysler in an hourly capacity, my net was about 60% of gross. I encountered very few 18 year olds going to work for the Big Three. Chrysler...
Jim: Do you have Peter's email address? I'd like to connect. Thanks, Gary: ... -- Gary Gathen, Chief Engineer, G Corp. 21 Elm Park Blvd. Pleasant Ridge,...
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DaimlerChrysler AG plans to open a new plant in South Carolina as it shifts where it assembles its Sprinter vans in the U.S. On Nov 28, 2005 , state Commerce...
And what is it that the transplants have that the big three do not? The answer is a culture of continuous improvement. Interesting, and something that I...
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I happened to get into a place that clearly met the jobshop definition recently. The place had three flowforming cells. The main component of each cell was a...
Per the February 6, 2006 Detroit Auto Scene, the German coachworks company EDAG is considering producing its add-on hardtop for the Pontiac Solstice in the US....
[Jon Thompson]I hear Boyd got himself a drive on Rack as well. It is the pinnacle of our American mentality, big power with laser or mechanical 3-d measuring....
Interlaken's New Press System Does Both Hydroforming and Hot Metal Gas-Forming! Posted by: d Prill on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 09:32 PM Interlaken...
The May/June 2006 issue of Time-Compression Technologies, www.timecompress.com, discusses the use of a handheld self-positioned laser scanner to scan a vehicle...
The 2006-06-02 issue of the Detroit Free Press has an article titled "GM Closing Productivity Gap". In this article the people who publish the Harbour Report...
The June 2006 issue of MetalForming includes the article "Simulation Slashes Die-Tryout Costs and Time". This concerns a company, Precise Engineering of...
Ohio firm partnering with Honda on CAD tools: From AutoTech Daily, word that privately owned Think3 Inc. of Cincinnati says it has won a contract with Honda...
David Smith, In past discussions, you had some thoughts about the SME stamping related training programs. I have included Page 2 of the SME's latest brochure...
David Smith, In past discussions, you had some thoughts about the SME stamping related training programs. I have included Page 3 of the SME's latest brochure...
The May 2006 issue of American Machinist, www.americanmachinist.com, Page 34, has an article about Edelbrock. A couple of interesting things I gleaned from the...
In my stint at Twinsburg Stamping I got my first look at what I called Hemming Presses and they called Hemmers. These use a press and complicated dies to fold...
I found this link to an interesting article about the Michigan die making industry trying to partner to get business from the transplants. Not much information...
The adoption of Lean Six Sigma led to the Red River Arsenal dropping the cost of refurbishing a Humvee from $87,000 to $48,000. Sounds like an operation that...
