(1) Design. A collection of part geometry and part features for cars, pickup trucks, and vans. (2) Process planning. A hierarchy of alternative sequences of operations for fabricating specific parts of a car such as the body, seats, and engine; robot programs; numerical control programs; inspection programs; and kitting instructions for materials packaging. (3) Resource planning. Classes and in...

September 1999 7 medicamundi Digital electronics is certainly a technology that has had an enormous impact on our modern way of life. This is demonstrated every day in many instruments that we use. For instance, it is obviously reflected in what gives us dependable and accurate time measurement (digital clocks), undistorted music (compact disc), control of car engine power (electronic fuel inje...

A fast data acquisition system has been developed to extract cycleby-cycle information on car engine performance and fuel consumption on the road. The information is stored on cassette for later analysis and digital plotting. A Commodore PET is used for both stages of the process. The paper describes the interface system and both acquisition and analysis methodologies. These are readily adaptab...

The problem of estimating and tracking the fundamental frequency of a periodic signal is formulated in Bayesian terms and a solution is proposed. For multichannel measurements both simulated and experimental data show that the estimate improves when more data channels are used for the estimation. The method is tested on a multichannel vibration measurement from the interior of a passenger car. ...

In many research centers all over the world nowadays works are being carried out aimed at compiling method for diagnosis machines technical condition. Special meaning have non-invasive methods including methods using vibroacoustic phenomena. In this article is proposed using DWT analysis and energy or entropy, which are a base for diagnostic system of fuel injectors damage in car combustion eng...

Data collected from Kelly Blue Book for several hundred 2005 used General Motors (GM) cars allows students to develop a multivariate regression model to determine car values based on a variety of characteristics such as mileage, make, model, engine size, interior style, and cruise control. Students learn to look at residual plots to check for heteroskedasticity, normality, autocorrelation, and ...