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Byline: Nick Gibbs Automotive customers want what they want from suppliers. At one time or another over the years, automakers have made the delivery of lightweighting solutions, technology advances and [...]

Byline: Tom Henderson At the beginning of the year, Ronnie Johncox correctly predicted who would make the chassis for the car that would win NASCAR's Daytona 500 on Feb. 20. [...]

Norton Manufacturing Co. is one of the first US firms to devise and implement a training program based on the skills stipulated by the National Skills Standards (NSS). The company adopted the NSS because it stipulates performance standards applicable to machinists' needs, trains workers in 'soft' and transportable skills and offers transferable training credits. Most importantly, it produces machinists with the technical proficiency required by Norton's operations., In less than two years, this company not only put a sweeping training program in place to prepare its own workforce, but it is also implementing the first training program [...]

The market for these mega-machines, about 450 units a year, is global, and the Kronenburg MAC (Major Airfield Crash) is a correspondingly international effort. The chassis is from KME, a [...]

Byline: Lindsay Chappell A recent flight from Detroit to Germany found TI Automotive executive Domenico Milicia sitting uncomfortably in coach, but all the richer for it. Under company policy, the [...]

Byline: Amy Wilson Last June, Florida dealer Derrick Fish was invited by a former colleague, now working at an AutoNation Inc. store in Tampa, Fla., to check out a new [...]

Nissan slashes server count in Tenn. plants SMYRNA, Tenn. Nissan North America Inc. has slashed the number of computer servers at its Smyrna and Decherd, Tenn., plants from 159 to [...]

The cash-for-clunkers program could be a blessing or a curse for cash-strapped suppliers, depending on whether it creates a sustained gain in vehicle production, supplier executives say. A short-lived production [...]

Saline Lectronics gets $1 million from state to diversify Saline Lectronics Inc., a Saline-based auto supplier specializing in circuit boards, has secured nearly $1 million in state financing to help [...]

Frightened by the ailing health of their supply base, the Detroit 3 are culling the herd by yanking business from the sick and weak and giving it to bigger, stronger [...]

Eberspacher North America Inc. had no business in North America when it first came to Michigan in 2000. While the family-owned company based in Germany has roots dating back to [...]

Eberspacher North America Inc. had no business in North America when it first came to Michigan in 2000. While the family-owned company based in Germany has roots dating back to [...]

Visteon Corp. design engineer Nick McGuire, who calls himself 'a bit of a computer geek, is ready to abandon instrument panels, center consoles and doors panels for cartoons and computer [...]

When Detroit-based Bridgewater Interiors L.L.C. was formed in 1998, the first job for its inexperienced workforce was to fulfill a $900 million contract with General Motors Corp., building seats for [...]

There are front, side and leg airbags. So how about a bag on the hood to protect upended bicyclists? The Dutch Cycling Federation said 60 lives could be saved annually [...]

Byline: Tim Parry Since automotive enthusiasts are so passionate about their hobby, Eastwood had good reason to embrace social networking online back in 2004. The move has helped it engage [...]

Lear Corp. stepped outside its comfort zone last Wednesday when it hosted a leather fashion show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Design in Detroit. 'This is a little bit [...]

ASC files for Ch. 11, makes deal to sell units Southgate-based ASC Inc., founded by the late Heinz Prechter in 1965, has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of [...]

NASA and the Michigan Research Institute (MRI) are to grant Troy-based Delphi $950,000 to fund further deformation resistance welding (DRW) development in 2007. The research will develop DRW for ferrous [...]

Byline: Larry Edsall When he graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., Kevin Beard anticipated a job creating interiors for a major automaker. Instead, he ended [...]

DETROIT - General Motors Corp. has found its behemoth pension plans under the microscope again. And while the long-term impact of a federal investigation into the company's pension accounting practices [...]

Bodine expands to supply Toyota JACKSON, Tenn. - Bodine Aluminum Inc. will expand its plant here to supply cast aluminum transmission cases and housings for Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia [...]

French police say an industrious college grad may have been looking for more than a line on her resume when she took an internship at French parts maker Valeo SA. [...]

The new 2005 catalog from Andax Environmental is packed with emergency response products, including secondary containment, spill control, sorbents, flexible film liners, and decontamination equipment. Featuring more than 20 new [...]

Byline: Alex Ricciuti Tire-pressure monitoring systems come in two forms. Direct systems use sensors inside each tire that read temperature and pressure. Combined, they can provide an accurate reading of [...]

Byline: Richard Truett For years, suppliers such as Continental Teves and Robert Bosch have tried to convince automakers, consumers and safety regulators that stability control systems should be standard. Someone [...]

Magna supplies Land Rover Discovery 3 LANNACH, Austria - Magna Drivetrain will supply integrated transfer cases for the 2005 Land Rover Discovery 3 in Europe. The parts will be manufactured [...]

Take a stroll with us through the little side roads of haulage, the diversions and detours, the quirky, the quixotic and the downright strange... If there was one thing that [...]

All Euro-4 Volvo, Renault and Mack engines of nine litres and above will have British-made electronic unit injectors (EUIs), supplied by Delphi from its Stonehouse, Gloucestershire plant. The EUIs for [...]

Byline: Richard Truett Automakers don't foresee trouble filling huge parts orders from Florida dealers in the wake of Hurricane Charley. New-car dealerships and auto body repair shops are repairing thousands [...]

When BorgWarner's Emissions/Thermal Divisions Cadillac Michigan Operation, a business unit that supplies aftermarket fans for clutches on commercial vehicles, needed a method to verify plant efficiencies and operational performance, plant […]

Diagnostic Innovations LLC has added Eaton Corp's new MD Mobile Diagnostics systems to its truck diagnostic product offering. The MD Mobile Diagnostics product line includes the MD-100, MD-200, and the [...]

Hendrickson Auxiliary Axle Systems has extended warranty parts coverage to five years on major structural components. An updated publication, Warranty, Auxiliary Axle Systems (H624 Rev B), outlines the extension and [...]

Bludot Inc has a more convenient way to source its product mix and company information: a free CD-ROM brochure. The CD is easy to use for engineers, specifying designers, fleet [...]

Eaton Corp has signed a five-year agreement with VTTi Inc to provide a new line of cellular-based diagnostic software for automotive and commercial vehicle service. The agreement enhances the current [...]

After expanding a formerly small division of the family business, Norma Wallis is revving up her fledgling motorsports company. Over the past few years, Livernois Motorsports L.L.C. has caught onto [...]

Byline: Mary Connelly The supplier of Chrysler group's innovative Stow 'n Go minivan seating system, in which both the second and third rows of seats fold easily below the floor, [...]

Watching people wrestle large objects into their vehicles at Home Depot can be a hoot. The designers at General Motors' GMC caught some of them on videotape, then attempted to [...]

Covisint Inc., the company that provides business-to-business services to help automotive makers electronically communicate with partners and suppliers, on Thursday launched a new messaging service. The Covisint Connect data messaging […]

The evolving relationship between aftermarket parts suppliers and automakers is making warranty claims more complicated. Here are examples of how parts built by traditional aftermarket suppliers find their way into [...]

Product focus: Switch-N-Go is a patent- pending Detachable Truck Body System (sometimes called a truck body changer) that gives truck owners more uses out of a single truck, enabling them [...]

Like a lost child, Covisint has been trying to find out where it belongs in the industry. It tried peddling software, but discovered plenty of other companies do that. It [...]

A Detroit stamping plant that opened in 1938 will close later this year, the result of stiff price competition and a recent automaker push to bring component production back in-house. [...]

The Service Manual for Alcoa Truck, Trailer, and Bus Wheels offers the most current wheel specifications and service instructions from Alcoa Wheel Products. This updated manual includes a new torque [...]

Visteon is approving supplier cost-cutting ideas through its SAVE program. Here's an example. Supplier: Toledo Mold & Die Part: Bi-metal coil resistor for air conditioning systems Change: Replace metals with [...]

Module manufacturing isn't the only way for a Tier 1 supplier to develop a closer relationship with an automaker. TNT Logistics North America Inc. is building a secure position with [...]

General Motors may overhaul the system it uses to pay dealers for warranty work. In a test on selected new vehicles (see box ), GM will measure the time it [...]

* Wescast Industries, Inc., Brantford, Ontario, Canada, will transfer the production of the GM 8.1L and Jaguar steel manifold programs to other [...]