Toyota, Nissan and General Motors are all striving to develop ceramic car engine parts.
Building everything from trains and tractors to aircraft-engine parts is capital-intensive, but tends to be poorly rewarded.
While an engineering student, your correspondent spent one summer crack-testing engine parts in an airline's workshops in Spain.
The engine parts manufactured here in Petersburg will go into next-generation planes that are lighter, faster, and more fuel-efficient.
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He runs advanced composite materials, which makes a kind of artificial diamond used to cut and shape jet engine parts.
If it succeeds, the material could be used for jet-engine parts, allowing them to run at higher, more efficient temperatures.
With the treated oil comes a warranty for some internal engine parts.
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Still, it was a little bewildering watching hourly mechanics discuss FAA regulations regarding the application of zinc chromate to engine parts, or who eats the cost of engine parts from an outside supplier that have been sitting in the reject cart for a couple of days.
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Spartan Light Metal Products, a small Midwestern producer of aluminum and magnesium engine parts (and other mechanical parts), which presented its story to Obama administration officials, who were dispatched across the country earlier this year to get input from manufacturers about the problems they confronted in export markets.
Further, thanks to planned investments by companies like Cisco, 3Com, Lucent, Microsoft, United Technologies, Motorola and Texas Instruments, if Congress approves normal trade with China, expect American and world markets to be flooded with ever higher-tech Chinese goods: broadband routers, telecommunications switches, semiconductors, servers, applications software and aerospace engine parts.
He had sold engine-parts, prefabricated houses, magic-lantern projectors, socks.
It emerged Wallwork had sold a Volkswagen Touran engine and parts from a BMW 318i on eBay, and he was observed driving a Mazda Furano into the scrapyard three days after it was stolen from a car dealer.
Lucie Bruijn, senior vice president of research and development at the ALS Association, likens this process to building an engine: If there are parts missing or placed in the wrong place or in the wrong way, the engine doesn't work right.
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Rolls-Royce monitors the engine remotely, gets parts to airports around the world and constantly innovates.
The U.S. Department of Energy researchers have designed a remarkably simple, energy-efficient engine with no moving parts.
The company numbers Boeing, Airbus and Lockheed Martin among its customers of propulsion-system components and aerostructures--such items as engine housings and fuselage parts.
Spartan was also exporting various magnesium-cast parts (engine valve covers, cam covers, wheel armatures, console brackets, etc.) to Canada, Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, and Japan.
"Help us turn Defcad into the world's first unblockable, open-source search engine for 3D printable parts, " says Mr Wilson in the video posted on the website looking for funding.
At Coaley Junction in Gloucestershire, the mail train froze and a fire had to be lit underneath it to defrost parts of the engine.
The need for the parts of an engine to fit together tightly enough to stop hot gases seeping where they should not, and yet not so tightly that they rub on each other in a way that wears them out, is a constant bane of engine designers.
Just as a razor manufacturer makes big money selling blades, he explains, jet engine makers profit most from replacement parts.
Despite signs of a weakening U.S. economy, aerospace component manufacturers are working flat out, machining turbine compressor blades, high-speed bearings and other parts for jet-engine and aircraftmakers.
The engine needs refinement, and some parts don't fit as well as they should--not to mention concerns about the safety of anything made in China these days.
Microsoft, for instance, in 2010 let FarmVille players explore various parts of its Bing search engine and gave people virtual currency for Liking Bing on Facebook.
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Burns says a fuel-cell vehicle has one-tenth the number of parts of a traditional internal combustion engine.
Built in Ohio, it uses a version of a diesel engine GM already sells in Europe and other parts of the world.
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Car dealers have figured out that the real money is in their service departments, where they can charge hefty prices for engine diagnostic work or manufacturer-built replacement parts.
At present, aluminium accounts for 9% of a typical vehicle's content mostly in the form of castings and forgings for engine blocks, transmission cases, wheels and suspension parts.
The key to pulling it off is the serial number assigned to each vehicle at the very first stage of production, where metal parts are welded together to form an engine compartment.
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