Many years ago I took a business trip to Cadiz, Spain to visit one of our manufacturing sites for an automotive component. While we were in the city we stayed at a beautifully renovated monastery...
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I remember my first electrical design that I was tasked with developing while I was working as an electrical design engineer within our instrumentation group. This simple circuit was a backup swi...
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Have you ever watched the assembly process for a new vehicle? The basic structure of the vehicle begins at the start of the line and moves through the assembly process gradually adding features a...
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In my career as a Program Manager I’ve had many long conversations with our Materials Planning organizations. It seems, that no matter how much we coordinate the development activities during...
Have you ever looked at a design and wondered why they made something the way that they did? Did you analyze the part and disassemble it looking at the infrastructure as to why the end product ...
Throughout history, scientists and engineers have discussed the concept of perpetual motion. The attraction to this idea is that once an object is put into motion it will never stop and will ci...
Many of us have seen the movie Transformers where alien beings magically transform into vehicles of every make model and style. Their metal bodies magically transform into every shape imaginabl...
One of the major concerns within the automotive industry is to improve fuel efficiency in all the vehicles that we produce. To do this requires that we reduce the weight of the vehicle and impr...
Industrial engineer, the title sounds rather ordinary, as if they ran out of words for the multitude of jobs available in the automotive industry and had to pick one that was still available. B...
Have you ever sat down and read the entire instruction manual for a new appliance? These bulky documents list a tremendous amount of information, all of which seems irrelevant to the everyday u...