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The Mazda Miata MX-5 has been a popular car among automotive enthusiasts for more than 15 years, and hardly a single one of the more than 700,000 sold has not been customized by its owner in some way. This book provides specific how-to instructions through 41 projects that include both maintenance and modification procedures for all cars from 1990 to 2005. Each project is treated separately, giving readers very specific information about the commitment in time, tools, money, and talent for each project.
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The ability to bring new and innovative products to market rapidly is the prime critical competence for any successful consumer-driven company. All industries, especially automotive, are slashing product development lead times in the current hyper-competitive marketplace. This book is the first to thoroughly examine and analyze the truly effective product development methodology that has made Toyota the most forward-thinking company in the automotive industry. In The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process, and Technology, James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker compare and contrast the world-class product development process of Toyota with that of a U.S. competitor. They use extensive examples from Toyota and the U.S. competitor to demonstrate value stream mapping as an extraordinarily powerful tool for continuous improvement. Through examples and case studies, this book illustrates specific techniques and proven practices for dealing with challenges associated with product development, such as synchronizing multiple disciplines, multiple function workload leveling, compound process variation, effective technology integration, and knowledge management. This valuable book: Highlights the application of value stream mapping methodology to product development. Identifies and defines the categories of waste that are specific to the product development process. Presents countermeasures and proven practices, based on Lean principles, developed for the product development process used at Toyota. Illustrates and clarifies the methodology by presenting actual case examples at Toyota and a U.S. competitor. Readers of this book can focus on optimizing the entire product development value stream rather than focus on a specific tool or technology for local improvements.
The Total Car Care series continues to lead all other do-it-yourself automotive repair manuals. This series offers do-it-yourselfers of all levels TOTAL maintenance, service and repair information in an easy-to-use format. Each manual covers all makes format. Each manual covers all makes and models, unless otherwise indicated. :Based on actual teardowns :Simple step-by-step procedures for engine overhaul, chassis electrical drive train, suspension, steering and more :Trouble codes :Electronic engine controls
The emergence of flow control as an attractive new field is owed to breakthroughs in MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) and related technologies. The instrumentation of fluid flows on extremely short length and short time scales requires the practical tool of control algorithms with provable performance guarantees. Dedicated to this problem, Flow Control by Feedback, brings together controller design and fluid mechanics expertise in an exposition of the latest research results. Featuring * Exhaustive treatment of flow control core areas including stabilization and mixing control techniques. * Self-contained introductory sections on Navier-Stokes equations, linear and nonlinear control and sensors and MEMS to facilitate accessibility to this cross-disciplinary subject. * A comprehensive survey of feedback algorithms for flow control that are currently available. In response to the intense interest in flow control, this volume will be an essential addition to the library of researchers and graduate students in control theory, fluid mechanics, mathematics and physics. Content structure is ideal for instruction on flow control modules or as supplementary reading on fluid dynamics and infinite dimensional systems courses
All common engine, chassis and electrical systems fully explained and illustrated. Topics covered include engine cycles and layouts, carburettors and fuel injection, ignition systems, clutches, gearbox, engine lubrication and cooling, wheels, tires, braking systems, suspension, steering, handling, design and electrical systems.
"VM" selected as one of "The ten best new design books" in this British newspaper. (Feb, 3rd 2011) --THE INDEPENDENT (UK) "By turns philosophical, exuberant, technical and historical. . . . brings into lively relief Le Corbusier's many significant, but negligibly recognized, achievements in industrial design and urban planning." (Spring 2011) --MODERNISM (USA) "Antonio Amado´s central project with this readable and engrossing book is to restore the car to what he considers its rightful place in Le Corbusier´s philosophy: at the centre." Trevor Baker (May 2011) --BLUEPRINT (UK) "Voiture Minimum. Le Corbusier and the Automobile by Antonio Amado is less the history of a single car than of an entire century of car design." (Apr, 2nd 2011) --THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (USA) “An engaging read...the book is almost an exploration of ideas on cars and mobility at this junction in history. Amado is a fluid writer, creating a charming narrative, chapter after chapter building up to the climax that is the story of the car itself.” — Nargess Shahmanesh Banks, (Feb, 20 2011) --DESIGN TALKS (UK) "Amado explains that the myth around the Minimum is based on it predating the Beetle and 2CV. He says: “A lot of people quoted other people who quoted Le Corbusier when he said that he had designed his prototype in 1928". -- Farah Alkhalisi (Apr, 26, 2011) --THE TELEGRAPH (UK) Révolutionnaire? C’est ce que Le Corbusier a tenté de faire croire par la suite, en jurant qu’il avait dessiné les plans de sa voiture dès 1928. Antonio Amado prétend le contraire: «… mes recherches montrent que la «Voiture Minimum» n’a pas pu être dessinée avant le début de l’année 1936… En définitive, la voiture de Le Corbusier n’est ni révolutionnaire ni même vraiment innovante!» Renaud Malik (May, 6th 2011) --LE MATIN (Schwitzerland). "The fundamental argument of the book is that the car design constitutes an essential part of Le Corbusier’s philosophy and should not be treated as a mere footnote to his designs for buildings and cities, or his wider theories about design principles and proportions." Phil Patton (May, 13rd 2011) --THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA). "Zu einem ebenso originellen wie umfassenden Buch über dieses einzigartige Autoprojekt". ("An original and complete book on this unique car"). Jürgen Pander (May, 9th 2011) --SPIEGEL Online (Germany) "To be honest, my budget hasn´t included any of the twenty-six or so books devoted to Le Corbusier that arrived in the last decade. (...) But "Voiture Minimum" is something different. A few pages in, I realized that I´d been gulled." Craig Hodgetts (Jul, 7th 2011) -- THE ARCHITECT´S NEWSPAPER (USA) "At just £ 36.95, the result is also a veritable bargain these days for a 350 page hardbound book (...) This is, quite simply, the best and most lavishly presented read to have passed my way in a long while. (...) Overall this is a book to savour at leisure." Brian Palmer (Summer 2011) --BIG END (UK). "This subject will probably never again be covered in as much detail, and both Amado and the MIT Press deserve praise for tackling it. Reg Winstone (Aug, 2011) --THE AUTOMOBILE (UK).