Automotive

Machining P/M steels for powertrain parts is tough, but answers abound.

Productives Times: Proactive progress. End user: Ford Motor Co., Lima Engine Plant. Challenge: Improve productivity and maximize quality when machining aluminum heads. Solution: Replaceable-head reamers with PCD cutting edges. Solution provider: Mapal Inc.

Machining large compacted graphite iron castings for diesel engine components is challenging, but applying the proper tools and techniques can help.

April 2009 Part Time column

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.