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DENSO’s Chinese Motorcycle Component Production Company Enters Into Joint Venture

The new joint venture company, formed in June, is called GONGCHENG DENSO (CHONGQING) Co. Ltd. (GCDN). Production has already begun at two plants.

Continental Addresses Industry Trends In Chassis & Safety Division

Continental’s Chassis & Safety division has established a new Passive Safety & Sensorics (PSS) business unit. This new unit has been established in response to the market trend of inertial sensors being integrated into airbag control units across a majority of vehicle platforms by 2016 to support ESC functionality.

King Engine Bearings Introduces New eCat

The new eCat, which features an improved user-friendly design and expanded functionality, is available at www.king-bearings.com/cat.

HELLA Says Lighting Will Play Major Role In Future Auto Interior Design

Lighting is not a significant factor in the design of most passenger-car and commercial-vehicle interiors today, but HELLA predicts that the use of ambient LED lighting in North America will more than quadruple over the next five years.

Bosch’s ‘Driving Innovation’ Road Tour Named Best Exhibit At O’Reilly Auto Parts Hot Rod Super Nationals

Bosch’s interactive traveling road tour, “Driving Innovation,” has won an award for being the Best Displayed Performance Marketplace Exhibitor at the O’Reilly Auto Parts Hot Rod Super Nationals.

ContiTech Builds Competence Center For Plastics In The U.S.

ContiTech Fluid Technology expands Somersworth, N.H., location.

MAM Announces Update To Business Intelligence Tool

New pivot feature and additional data fields increase scope of EMI, company says.

Chassis Parts Overview:

The demand for replacement chassis parts has remained fairly steady in recent years. The demand for replacement parts is a function of vehicle age and miles driven. In a soft economy, people are keeping their vehicles longer than ever before. The average age of all cars and light trucks today is at an all-time high

Understanding Engine Sensors

While their individual configurations might be different, the function of any engine sensor is to provide input data which the powertrain control module (PCM) processes to control output functions like the air/fuel mixture ratio, fuel injection mode, spark timing advance, camshaft timing, throttle opening and idle speed.

Program Groups Overview: Leveraging

Each year, Counterman magazine surveys the state of the program groups to assess the general health of program distribution. Consolidation that occurred in the last few years has been absent lately, as the groups have hunkered down to allocate resources where needed and sharpened their data-mining skills. There’s been an increasing emphasis on data in the past few years, something that will only continue. This year, we asked the heads of five groups for their take on where program distribution is headed­­­­.