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Iron
Engines May Be In Your Future,
(Tooling and Production, September
2003; George Georgiou, Cincinnati
Lamb)
Lightweight products arent always manufactured from light weight materials because performance often is a trade-off between weight and strength. Nowhere is this clearer than in the looming battle between aluminum and Compacted Graphite Iron (CGI) for dominance in cylinder blocks and heads for next-generation vehicles.
Teamwork Drives Turnkey Success: Suppliers
Team Up To Help Power Ford's New F-150,
(Manufacturing Engineering, May
2004)
When engineers at Spartan Light Metal Products (Mexico, MO) were preparing a bid to design and manufacture cam covers used in 5.4-L V-8 engines for Ford's new F-150 pickup truck, expected part volumes and cycle times were the key concerns.
Developing a flexible, robust system to meet both current and future production and cost demands was also important according to Director of Materials and Customer Service John Hunkins.
Manufacturing Engineering®
Copyright by Society of
Manufacturing Engineering. Used with
permission.
Machine Tool Structural Modeling and
Simulation,
(Robert E. Schorry, Cincinnati Lamb)
Compensation for Thermal Effects,
(Satish Shivaswamy, Cincinnati Lamb)
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