The April 2007 issue of Metalforming has an article that concerns an upgrade to a contract manufacturing stamping line operated by Yorozu Automotive Tennessee....
SUMMER CAMP STRESSES THE TECH IN MANUFACTURING Designing a scale-model car, fabricating its components, and assembling them into a finished product is the...
Michigan officials announced April 9 that a Japanese auto supplier, Toyota Boshoku America, will expand its technical center in Novi. Toyota Boshoku is a...
[gltr]Lawrence Technological University will hold a summer camp for budding automotive designers at its campus in Southfield the last week in June. Open to...
IAV Automotive Engineering Inc., a subsidiary of Germany’s IAV GmbH, will relocate its Michigan engineering operations from Ann Arbor to Northville Township...
The April issue of Automotive Design and Reproduction has a great article on the development of the new Viper engine. A tremendous amount of the components and...
Per the 2007-05-27 Detroit Free Press, a 1962 Ferrari TRI/LM Testa Rossa recently sold for 9.4 million. That sounds like the car to try to clone. Personal Auto...
One question here is how many of these people who left Ford are in Michigan. The other question is how many who left have been replaced by people on the lower...
This lowers the minimum number of cars of a model that need to be sold per year to keep it in mass production. The last Thunderbird was taken out of production...
It would be very interesting to know if the Toyota Production Engineering Group is specifying the manufacturing equipment in the new Hino plant. We have...
Fanuc Robotics introduces new line: Fanuc Robotics America, Inc., has introduced its new LR Mate 200iC robot, the company's next generation mini-robot, which...
GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES JAPAN'S HINO MOTORS TO OPEN TRUCK ASSEMBLY PLANT IN WILLIAMSTOWN $8.6 million investment to hire 80; First vehicle assembly plant in West ...
I suspect the creation of many community colleges in the mid sixties was residual spin-off from Sputnik. Anyway, Macomb County Community College was ...
Per the July 16, 2007 issue of Detroit Auto Scene, the Mazda MX-5 Miata has sold over 800,000 over the last 18 years. This is the best selling 2 seat roadster...
I am sure that Honda is and doing reasonably well at it. They are just more secretive about how their culture of continuous improvement functions. The Honda's...
For what it is worth, after the Jeep Cherokee went out of production about this time in 2001, half the old Willys Overland plant in Toledo was torn down. About...
The 2007 XJ Jaguar Since its introduction in 2003 as a 2004 model, the XJ range has expanded from three to five distinct models with the addition of the...
We received a request from jamesgpeck@... to send you this article from Manufacturing.Net . U.S. Automakers Now Below 50 Percent Market Share By Tom...
