Automotive

Cutting Tool Engineering Contributing Editor Bill Kennedy offers a video supplement to the October cover story, which looked at how small shops are taking advantage of big opportunities by making military parts.

Auto manufacturers are 'lightweighting' vehicles by incorporating more aluminum and microalloy steel components.

Honing an engine's cylinder bores enhances their geometry, surface finish and dimensional accuracy, improving their fit and alignment with pistons and thereby increasing the engine's life and power density while decreasing its vibration, friction and emissions.

Trend toward greener vehicles is changing materials, designs of parts.

Feared by its enemies, revered by our side: the Abrams M1

With the Big Three automakers facing hard times, transplants offer U.S. suppliers opportunities, challenges and a new way of doing business.

Orange County Choppers puts product before publicity.

By diversifying its customer base, an automotive machine shop found new marketsfor its services.

Plastic auto parts continue to supplant metal ones.

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems gain ground in the automotive sector.

Customization is changing the aluminum-wheel market.

Automakers are adopting eddy-current technology as a fast, reliable way to meet zero-defect requirements.