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( No. 22)
Monday, March 19, 2001
Online Newsletter of the Detroit Chinese Engineers Association (DCEA)
DCEA Web Site: http://www.DetroitEngineer.org
Mail Address: P.O. Box 1595, Warren, MI 48090
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Table of Contents
[DCEA Community News]
1.Final program "2001 Detroit Automotive Technology Conference
& Exposition"
[DCEA Corporate Sponsors]
[Sign On/Off Instructions]
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DCEA Community News
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1.
2001 Detroit Automotive
Technology Conference & Exposition
Lawrence Technological University, Wayne Buell Management Building,
Southfield, MI
Saturday, April 7, 2001
Conference Theme: “Challenges in the Global Economy and
Workplace”
Detroit Chinese Engineers Association
Conference Chair: Dr.
Zach Fu, Visteon Corp.
Technical Program Chair: Dr. Nanxin Wang, Ford Motor Company
9:00am - 11:30am Conference Registration
9:30am -
10:30pm Concurrent
Technical Sessions
I. Advanced VEHICLE Technology Room M 217 Chair: Jie Du, Daimlerchrysler
“A New Method of Rapid Forming Prototype Light Weight Metal Component Wear-resistant coatings”, Mei Cai and June-Sang Siak, GM R&D Center
"Magnesium Applications in the Automotive Industry", Naiyi Li, Ford Motor Company
" Recent Advancement on Aluminum Forming Technologies ", Cedric Xia, Ford Motor Company
II. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Room M 216 Chair: Mike Zhou, TIBCO
· “Information, Information Technology, and Automotive Marketing", Jie Cheng, J. D. Power & Associates
· "Enterprise Information Architecture and e-Business Transformation", Xia Zhang, Ford Motor Company
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"What is Distributed Intelligence and what has it
got to do with Cars?", Ron Miller and Perry MacNeille, Ford Motor Company
10:30am -
11:00pm Break
11:00am -
12:00pm Concurrent
Technical Sessions
III.
Advanced VEHICLE Technology Room M 217
Chair: Jie Du, Daimlerchrysler
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"Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI)
Engines: Opportunities and Challenges", Fuquan Zhao, DaimlerChrysler
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“Integrated Vehicle/Transmission Model Correlation and
Its Applications to Vehicle/Transmission Design Programs", Lee Liu, Ford
Motor Company
· “42V Electric Power Steering System", Wangquan (Winston) Cheng, TRW Chassis Systems
IV. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Room M 216 Chair: Mike Zhou, TIBCO
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"Ford
Production System Presentation",
Steven Hsieh, Ford Motor Company
· "Biology and Bioinformatics", Xianxian Zheng, Pfizer Global R & D
10:00am -
4:00pm Exposition (Atrium Hall)
12:00pm -
1:30pm Luncheon
Lunch Program:
· Welcome and overview of DCEA in 2001 – Zach Fu, DCEA president
· Introduction of 2001 DCEA Board and Officers – Zach Fu
· Recognition of retired DCEA Officers and President for 2000 – Zach Fu
· Award Ceremony for "Future Engineer Award" – Zach Fu
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Award Ceremony for "Outstanding High School
Students" – Tai Chan
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Keynote: “The new economy without a com” -- Dr. Mason
Yu
1:30pm -
3:00pm Plenary Session: Outlook of
the Global Economy and Corporate Culture
Moderator: Tai Chan, GM Room M217
· "Global Economic trends and the Asian World Bank Initiatives”, Dr. Mark Robinson, Staff Economist, GM
· “How To Start-up: the Beginning of Every Economic Giant”, Mr. Philip Wang, President/Managing Partner of Fortunetech Partners
· “Managing Cultural Diversity in the new workplace”, Dr. Elizabeth Broidy, Staff Scientist, GM
· "Communication Perplexity: The Challenge to Chinese Professionals", Prof. Luchen Li, Iowa State University and Kettering University
3:00pm -
4:00pm Reception (Beverages &
Refreshments, Atrium Hall)
4:00pm Conclusion
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2001 Detroit Automotive
Technology Conference & Exposition
Lawrence Technological University, Wayne Buell Management Building,
Southfield, MI
Saturday,
April 7, 2001
Detroit Chinese Engineers
Association
Conference Chair: Dr.
Zach Fu, Visteon Corp.
Technical
Program Chair: Dr. Nanxin Wang, Ford
Motor Company
Technical Committee: Zach Fu, Visteon Automotive Systems
Nanxin Wang, Ford Motor Company
Jie Du, Daimler Chrysler
Mike Zhou, TIBCO
Tai Chan, General Motors Corporation
Winston Cheng, TRW
Exposition Chair: Winston Cheng, TRW
Treasurer and Conference Site Coordinator: Kingman Yee, Lawrence Technological University
Registration: Winston Cheng, TRW, Winston.cheng@trw.com
Sheilah Wang, Daimlerchrysler, Qw3@daimlerchrysler.com
Tung Weng, Oakland University, weng@oakland.edu
Martin Wu, CompuPacific Int'l, Martin_wxt@yahoo.com
Proceedings Editors: Zach Fu, Visteon Automotive Systems
Nanxin
Wang, Ford Motor Company
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Chair: Jie Du, Daimler Chrysler
GM R&D Center
A new process of making prototype casting metal parts, which involves the use of supercritical fluid extraction technique and CO2 soluble blended polymer materials, is developed in GM R&D. It improves the casting quality of metal parts and provides a method of rapidly, efficiently and inexpensively producing casting molds while minimizing or eliminating emissions. The casting patterns are built up with resin-bonded aggregate particles by utilizing a unique adhesive or binder film composition. The pattern is then encased in a rigid shell mold that is bonded with GMBONDTM. GMBONDTM is a non-toxic, biodegradable, water-soluble core sand binder that is also developed in GM R&D to improve the workplace environment, casting productivity and reduce contamination on sand wastes. The final step is to disintegrate patterns within an unaffected mold by exposure to SCF CO2.
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In the automotive industry, weight reduction for fuel economy has spurred the growth of magnesium consumption over the last decade around the world at an annual rate of 15%. However, lightweight construction using magnesium is in competition with aluminum, plastics/polymer, and high strength steel. It is a declared aim for major OEMs including GM, Ford, and DaimlerChrysler to establish the use of magnesium in volume production cars whenever it makes technical sense and is economically viable. It's predicted there is over 100 kg potential for automotive application increased from the current level of 3.6 kg per vehicle. In this presentation, the current and potential automotive applications of magnesium will be reviewed, and the technical challenges for these applications are discussed.
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Recent weight reduction initiatives at automotive companies have put aluminum to the spotlight. Aluminum alloys provide comparable strength to mild steels at a third of the weight. However, the extensive use of aluminum also brings significant challenges to the manufacturing process. This presentation will focus on three areas of aluminum forming technology, namely aluminum stamping, with emphasis on springback prediction and springback compensation; aluminum hemming, with emphasis on hemmability and craftsmanship; and hydroforming of aluminum tubes, with emphasis on hydroformability and FEA predictability.
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Developing a fuel-efficient
internal combustion engine while meeting increasingly stringent emissions
regulations is the major challenge that all automotive engine engineers are
facing today. Homogeneous charge compression ignition engine has been
identified as one of the promising candidates that have the potential to meet
this requirement. However many barriers exist that prevent us from applying
this technology over a wide range of operating conditions. This presentation is
intended to provide an introductory description of this technology and review
the current worldwide R&D status.
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Vehicle dynamic CAE models
have been widely used in the automotive engineering during the last few years.
But few of them incorporated a full/detailed automatic transmission model. The
automatic transmission functions are to deliver power to driving wheels by
matching engine's speed and torque to the driver's needs. Obviously, a vehicle
model integrated with a full transmission model can not only enable engineers
to have an insight into both vehicle and transmission systems but also make it
possible to investigate dynamic responses during the transmission shifts.
In this presentation, the
following discussions will be briefed:
n Integrated
vehicle/transmission modeling technique
n Model correlation using the
vehicle data
n Vehicle/transmission dynamic
analysis in both time and frequency domains
n Application to vehicle and
transmission design programs
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Current power steering
market has about 90% content of hydraulic power steering (HPS) system. Because HPS has problems such as low
efficiency, heavy weight, and long assembly time, a new product called electric
power steering (EPS) was developed to replace HPS. It is forecasted that EPS will take about 60% of the power
steering market in 10 years.
Although current EPS products tend to use 12V battery as a standard power supply, the increasing demand for more power to steer heavier cars, vans, and SUV indicates the need to introduce 42V for the EPS system. This paper will describe a rack assist EPS system for a vehicle with front-end loads equal to that of a light duty truck. The key technology enable for the product was the development of a 42V electrical system. This system applies assist from a brushless motor directly to the rack, making it one of the most efficient steering technologies available.
Automotive marketing today is extremely challenging because of economic downturn, intensified competitions, and a saturated market. Because of heavy capital investment and long lead time, just to survive under the stress requires an auto maker to build the RIGHT products at the RIGHT time to the RIGHT market? This creates a great demand for Information and Information Technology. In this talk, a specific topic, Build-to-Order (or BTO), will be discussed to describe a most interesting marketing problem facing today's auto makers, suppliers, distributors, dealer, and internet auto information content providers. I'll also use the opportunity to highlight capabilities and technologies developed at J. D. Power and Associates to address the issues through collecting and analyzing real-time automotive market transaction information.
Managing enterprise information architecture (EIA) is at the core of transforming a business to be "e-enabled" and "net-ready". Linking an enterprise’s business strategy and goals with its process architecture, data architecture, technology architecture, and people architecture results in complete enterprise information architecture. This talk will present an e-process design methodology based on enterprise information architecture, which is vision led, business driven, customer orientated, process focused, and measurement enabled. It will be illustrated how this method can be used to enhance the linkage of business and information community, strategize enterprise initiatives, and manage changes.
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A discussion of how distributed intelligence
is defined and state of the art technologies that motivate its deployment; how
distributed intelligence is impacting the Automobile industry and what its
impact is likely to be.
In today's highly competitive market place and changing environment, delivering products to customers at highest Quality, lowest Cost, and quickest delivery Time continues to be a challenge for all manufacturing companies. To achieve superior shareholder return, these competitive elements have to be continuously improved. Ford Production System is an overall business system that impacts every function with out Company from Product Design, R&D, M&S, Finance, Logistics, Purchasing, Supply Chain Management, HR, and Manufacturing. Its objective to reduce the overall Design cycle time from concept to Job 1, the overall manufacturing lead time from Raw to Fish, the overall delivery time from Order to Cash, and as well as supply base improvements. In this presentation, the speaker will introduce the fundamental philosophy of Lean as well as Lean tools, such as Six Sigma, Quick Change Over, Total Productive Maintenance, Error Proofing, Theory of Constraints, Synchronous Material Flow, Value Stream Mapping, Level Production, Visual Management (including 5S), etc. Examples will be shown.
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Development of new
technologies, such as capillary electrophoresis units used in large-scale DNA sequencing
projects, the photolithography and robotics technology used in chip
manufacture, and the confocal imaging systems used to read those chips, have
pave the way for tremendous advances in many areas of genomics research. Genomic research makes it possible to look
at biological phenomena on a scale not previously possible: all genes in a
genome, all transcripts in a cell, and all metabolic processes in a tissue. One
feature that these entire approaches share is the production of massive
quantities of data. New technologies for assaying gene expression patterns,
protein structure, protein-protein interactions will provide even more
data. How to handle these data, make
sense of them, and render them accessible to biologists working on a wide
variety of problems is the challenge facing bioinformatics--an emerging field
that seeks to integrate computer science with applications derived from
molecular biology. An overview of this
field and some of challenges will be presented and discussed.
Moderator: Tai
Chan, GM
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Luchen Li, Ph.D
Iowa State University and Kettering University, formerly GMI
lli@kettering.edu
Cultural diversity at work places not only means
tougher competition in technical skills among employees of various cultural
backgrounds; the diverse work force also entails challenges in communication
skills and strategies for employees and corporate leaders. While Chinese professionals are very capable
and competitive technologically, they often find themselves challenged in
professional communication. Many
engineers and potential leaders with Chinese heritage feel that they have been
treated unfairly in technical and managerial promotions, although they have
equal technical experience as their American counterparts. This challenge is not always the result of
incompetence in the English language or discrimination, but often the
consequence of little knowledge of communication channels and strategies in a
different cultural environment.
Based on a corporate secret, Communication ability =
Promotability, this paper focuses on how Chinese professionals should equip
themselves with more rhetorically sensitive strategies and processes to
evaluate cultural interactions at the workplace and adopt professional
communication skills for the need of their particular situations. Issues
discussed in this presentation include the importance of professional
communication, cultural barriers in communication, and corporate communication
channels and strategies.
The 2000 DCEA Corporate Sponsors: On behalf of all DCEA members, We recognize and appreciate the 1999 corporate sponsors for their sustained surports to DCEA: Altair Engineering, Inc. CGN and Associates Ford Motor Company General Motors Corporation Giddings & Lewis, Inc. Lawrence Technological University Optimal CAE, Inc. ==========================================================
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