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Automobile Manufacturing Building better automobiles
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photo © John Earle
"My company keeps improving its products and asks me for advice."  
If you arrived in a car, truck, or bus, NIST helped you to get here. Manufacturing a car requires more than 15,000 parts and accessories. These parts must fit and work together perfectly even if made by many different companies, in different countries.

NIST provides U.S. automakers with the tools to ensure that a centimeter in Milwaukee is the same as a centimeter in Malaysia. NIST also co-funds research on advanced auto technologies and provides technical and business assistance to small manufacturers such as auto suppliers.

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Next Generation Technologies

Quality Control and the Titanic

More auto manufacturing info on the NIST web site

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date created:1/15/01
last updated: Aug. 02, 2007
contact: inquiries@nist.gov