Did you know that right now in some laboratory hidden away from sight there are engineers looking at ways to glue the cylinder heads to the block in your next passenger vehicle? It may sound crazy but ...

When hot rodders build a street machine or street rod, countless hours are expended selecting the proper major components, building the drivetrain, detailing the chassis, choosing the right tires and ...

A special thread form keeps bolts and nuts tight under vibration by attacking the problem from a different angle. Two conventional methods for securing threaded fasteners against preload loss include ...

Introducing a screw that knows more about your engine than you do. Feel insulted? You shouldn’t. The data bolt can store about 2 kilobytes of information, not a lot in comparison to your iPod, but its ...

The Chevy Bolt assembly line began putting together customer cars today in Orion Township, Michigan according to the AP. Unfortunately for most of us, the cars will only reach California and Oregon in ...

Threaded fasteners haven’t changed drastically since they were invented ages ago. But now, General Motors has put RFID tags in the bolts used on engine assembly lines, turning simple hardware into ...

Automakers are constantly tweaking even the smallest features, leading to industry innovations from rain-sensing wipers to six-level autonomous driving. Some changes can go unnoticed until you have a ...

When faculty member Leo Castagno of Brigham Young University discovered that many engineering students could write a program in C++ but couldn't tell the difference between a screw and a bolt, he wasn ...

General Motors has used RFID tags on engine assembly systems for process tracking for many years. Now GM's Gen 5 Small Block engine program is also using RFID-enabled track-and-trace databolts as a ...