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To develop improved measurement technology and process control needed to achieve tighter fit — as well as better quality and lower costs — in auto bodies and other products assembled from sheet metal parts.Duration: 9/1/1992 — 10/31/1995 ATP Number: 91-01-0177 Funding (in thousands):ATP????????????????? $4,487 ????? 43%Companies???????6,048?????? 57%Total ??????????????$10,535  The project achieved the RD goal of developing measurement and process control technology, which participating companies verified in several in-plant tests. Widespread adoption of the technology is now underway in auto assembly plants. Indicative of progress, the companies: - cut dimensional variation in auto body assembly to a world-class standard of 2 mm or less and demonstrated the reduction with existing workforces in all five plants initially targeted by the project;- reduced production costs by $10 to $25 per vehicle at two plants initially adopting the technology, savings that are expected, according to consortium staff, to be applied eventually in plants which produce all 6.5 million cars and light trucks produced annually by Chrysler and General Motors;- reduced expected future maintenance costs by an estimated $50-$100 per vehicle;- published several papers in professional journals;- published The Capture and Communication of Knowledge: A Lessons-Learned Approach, a manual that will speed the adoption of the technologies and processes developed during the ATP project by showing how to implement them;- worked with the University of Michigan to begin transferring the technology to other GM and Chrysler assembly plants beyond the original five, implementing it thus far in 22 plants in the United States and Canada;- generated via ISI Automation Group (formerly ISI Robotics) the spin-off development of a new type of clamp, called the SofTouch, for holding sheet metal parts during assembly; and- provided member auto assembly companies a quality peg on which to hang marke