Automotive

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.

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems gain ground in the automotive sector.

Customization is changing the aluminum-wheel market.

Plastic auto parts continue to supplant metal ones.

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

Machining dissimilar metals in a single workpiece.

How to successfully facemill automotive parts.