Self-drive Vehicle Programs Roll On

Featured in this issue:      Sharpe Products, Your Tube Bending Specialists!  |  Versatile Gauging on Your Shop Floor  |  Find Current Technologies and Colleagues Who Share Your Vision  |  Industrial Grade Kelvin Battery Charging Clip  |  Conserve Cooling Capacity with Delta-Q Regulators  |  High Accuracy Inspection  |  A Must-read for Automotive OEMs  |  New Variable Reluctance Speed Sensor 28 October 2015 Share with a friend Add to Safe Senders List |  If you can't view this email, please click here Industry Trends & Events . . .   Learn more   Self-drive Vehicle Programs Roll On GM employees at the company's Warren Technical Center will soon gain an unusual perk: autonomous cab service. Using their smartphones, personnel at the R&D campus will be able to summons one of several self-driving Volts to haul them to their on-campus destination. After, the Volt parks itself until called on again. Autonomous vehicles may play a similar role in the 2020 Olympic Games. Toyota is testing a self-driving Lexus GS450h on a Tokyo highway. Even though the company is a relative latecomer to the autonomous field, Toyota plans to invest $50 million into vehicle artificial intelligence. Learn more     View now   Sharpe Products, Your Tube Bending Specialists! Sharpe Products Unique to repeat, Sharpe Products has the capabilities to produce and deliver quality custom bent pipe and tube products to many OEMs including the automotive industry. Utilizing state-of-the-art tube bending and laser cutting technology, pipe/tube of various shapes and materials can be laser cut, bent, and fabricated up to 6 in. O.D.     Learn more   Versatile Gauging on Your Shop Floor Renishaw With the patented low-cost design, unique construction and method of operation, Renishaw's Equator™ is a high speed comparative gauge for inspection of medium to high volume manufactured parts. The Equator's innovative and highly repeatable gauging technology is based on the traditional comparison of production parts to a reference master part.     Find Current Technologies and Colleagues Who Share Your Vision IEEE Membership Only IEEE members are presented with resources, opportunities, and discounts to help advance their personal and professional goals while supporting the IEEE mission to advance technology for the benefit of humanity. See how IEEE can help you! Save on your membership today!   Learn more     Industrial Grade Kelvin Battery Charging Clip Mueller Electric Company The BU-116 is a custom designed, industrial grade clip for the battery charging industry. This Kelvinized clip offers separate power and monitoring connections and has a maximum jaw opening of 2.0 in. Visit Mueller Electric for a complete line test clips, leads, and accessories.   View now

Electrical/Electronic Components . . .   View now   High-temp Insulating Material Lowers Weight Because a new ultra heat-resistant ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) grade maintains its performance characteristics at up to 200° C, it proves ideal for industrial and automotive wire insulation and under-floor heating cable. In addition, the ETFE grade allows for a much thinner — and therefore lighter — insulation, important for vehicles that require high fuel efficiency. More from Wire & Cable Technology...     Learn more   Electric Vehicles to Drive SiC Growth Yole Développement's latest report "GaN and SiC Devices for Power Electronics Applications" indicates that photovoltaic inverters continue to be the biggest users of silicon carbide (SiC) devices. But, by 2020, power train inverters of electric and hybrid electric vehicles will begin to tap the benefits of SiC technology, says Yole's report. Consequently, it expects rapid growth in the adoption of SiC devices by 2020.   Materials . . .   New Plastics That Make a Difference While tracking new plastics is a chore, presentations like this slideshow can help. It profiles five materials making a difference in automotive, medical, and industrial components. There's a polyurethane foam that enables mass-production of honeycomb car parts; a nylon 6/6 that's 50% stronger than standard high-impact 6/6; and an acrylic elastomer that lifts application heat limits by 20 C.   Learn more     Advanced Metals Flex Automotive Muscle Plastics and composites climb in the car material mix, but metal isn't throwing in the towel. To shave an average 640 lbs per vehicle by 2020, manufacturers are using all kinds of advanced metals. These include more malleable aluminum alloys in Ford's F-150 trucks as well as next-generation high-strength steels with improved elongation percentages and tensile strengths.   View now   View now   Conserve Cooling Capacity with Delta-Q Regulators Burger & Brown Engineering, Inc. Delta-Q™ is a low-cost precision flow regulator module. Delta-Q Flow Regulator can be used with a Smartflow Manifold to control the flow rate of each cooling line of an injection mold. Ensure turbulent flow with an integral flowmeter and save cooling capacity for downstream injection molding machines. Temperature and pressure gauges are optional.     Learn more   High Accuracy Inspection MTI Instruments Inc. MTI 2D Sensors are essential quality inspection tools for on-body trim profile inspection, body panel alignment, and tire tread depth inspection because of their robustness, high speed, and accuracy advantages. These advantages are also being utilized for automated weld seam tracking and inspecting fabricated parts in the production line.     A Must-read for Automotive OEMs Kenmode Custom Precision Metal Stamping Although metal stampings may be a small component of a larger product, they can have significant impact on a manufacturer's bottom line. This eBook outlines 13 steps OEMs can follow to ensure their metal stampings are designed and produced cost-effectively. Critical steps that: • Reduce product costs • Cut production time • Enhance product life   Learn more     New Variable Reluctance Speed Sensor Magnetic Sensors Corporation Tough and versatile new 007 Series speed sensors. 3/8-24 UNF 2A thread with 2.70 in. thread length, with or without Deutsch and other connectors. Metric version is also available. A very high-quality magnetic sensor. See for yourself — visit us here for a sample.   View now

Design & Assembly . . .   View now   Hyper Vision Featuring a proprietary FTCMOS burst image sensor to increase photosensitivity, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments' new high-speed video camera promises to bring dim situations into the light. The camera is designed to take vivid images in poor lighting conditions or to observe complex and challenging interactions, such as processes like automotive fuel injection. Learn more about high speed cameras...     Learn more   Listening in on Virtual Vehicles Detroit-based simulation technology leader Altair has partnered with a Danish company to bring noise, vibration, and harshness analysis to automotive design desktops. Brüel & Kjær's NVH software Insight+ processes CAE data into detailed sound models. These models, in turn, give engineers the ability to evaluate sounds a vehicle would make in real-world scenarios.   Powertrain Systems . . .   Charging Cars on the Go There are already plans to build charging stations for electric cars at various locations worldwide. But engineers are advancing Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer as a more consumer-friendly technology that would wirelessly charge electric and hybrid cars while in motion. IHS Engineering360 reviews these efforts and highlights an 18-month test track trial planned in the UK for this road-embedded vehicle charging technology.   Learn more   The Rationale for 48 V Mild-hybrid Systems Significant CO2 reductions — as much as 15%; elimination of belt-driven ancillaries such as the HVAC compressor, power steering pump, and coolant pump; the ability to accommodate systems that impose a high power load on the car, such as dynamic chassis control. These are just three benefits associated with 48 V mild hybrids.   View now

Industry Standards . . .   Get the standards   Electric Vehicle Inductively Coupled Charging This SAE Recommended Practice establishes the minimum interface compatibility requirements for electric vehicle inductively coupled charging for North America. This part of the specification is applicable to manually connected inductive charging for Levels 1 and 2 power transfer. For more information on IHS standards, visit us here. Get the standards