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My Years with General Motors Alfred P. Sloan With an Introduction by John Egan... 

A business classic by the man who took General Motors to the top - and kept them there for decades. 

D. I. Gibbons and L. C. Vance, M Simulation Study of Estimators for the Parameters and Percentiles in the Two-Parameter Weibull Distribution, General Motors Research Publication No. GMR-3041, General Motors, Detroit, Mich., 1979. 

Shredded tire chips have been burned in stoker-fired boilers. Uniroyal fired a 15% mixture of tire chips with coal, and both General Motors and B. 

R. H. Taggart, Shredded Tires as Auxiliary Duel, General Motors, Detroit, Mich., Mat. 1975 W. Underwood, personal communication. General Motors, Detroit, Mich, Jan. 1982. 

General Motors Engineering Standards. Automotive Engine Coolant, Antifreeze Concentrate-Ethylene Glycol Type, GM 6038-M, Jan. 1971 Automotive Engine Coolant, Concentrate-Ethylene Glycol Type, GM 6043-M, Sept. 1983. 

Use of the peUetted converter, developed and used by General Motors starting in 1975, has declined since 1980. The advantage of the peUetted converter, which consists of a packed bed of small spherical beads about 3 mm in diameter, is that the pellets were less cosdy to manufacture than the monolithic honeycomb. Disadvantages were the peUetted converter had 2 to 3 times more weight and volume, took longer to heat up, and was more susceptible to attrition and loss of catalyst in use. The monolithic honeycomb can be mounted in any orientation, whereas the peUetted converter had to be downflow. AdditionaUy, the pressure drop of the monolithic honeycomb is one-half to one-quarter that of a similar function peUetted converter. 

Some OCs were of the monolithic honeycomb type, but all General Motors cars used peUetted OCs. For a period in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, both TWC and OC were used in a dual-bed catalyst. Oxygen needed for OC performance was provided by an engine driven air pump or a reed... 

B. A. D AHeva, Procedure and Chartsfor Estimating Exhaust Gas Quantities and Composition, General Motors Laboratory Report 372, Warren, Mich.,... 

CBOD—paint—General Motors Aerohic 108 Volatile... 

Chrysler Corporation, Ford Motors, General Motors Corporation 1995 Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) - Reference Manual, 2nd Edition. 

General Motors Public Interest Report." General Motors Corp., Detroit, 1982. 

General Motors, Environmental Activities Staff, Mobile Emission Standards Pocket Reference, March, 1990. 

Unite PCPM, Universite Catholiqiie de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI 48090, U.S.A. 

In 1988, the Purchasing and Supply Vice Presidents of Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors chartered a Task Force to standardize reference manuals, reporting formats, and technical nomenclature, resulting in five standardized reference manuals. 

Existing AIAG, ANFIA, FIEV, and VDA manuals are listed in a bibliography to ISQ/TS 16949 and form part of the requirements to the extent specified in specific clauses. For example, suppliers to Ford, Ghrysler, and General Motors will be required to apply the APQP Manual, FMEA Manual, etc. 

While these and many other contemporary quality policies would not need to be publicized 20 or so years ago, policy statements are not something new to the automobile industry. The General Motors of the 1920s under the direction of Alfred P Sloan used corporate policy as a means of coordinating the efforts of several divisions. GM s quality policy was to build quality products sold at fair prices and in setting up an Executive Gommittee Sloan wrote on the subject of quality, A carefully designed policy should be... 

For those suppliers not conforming to Ford, General Motors, and Daimler Ghrylser requirements, other analytical methods and acceptance criteria may be used if approved by the customer. If you lack any documented methods, the MSA Reference Manual is recommended. 

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