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An increasing emphasis is currently being placed on reducing the design-to-manufacturing time for all products. Pistons for internal combustion engines are being placed under the same emphasis. A new method has been established which reduces the piston design-to-manufacturing time and thus, brings pistons to market quicker than ever before. This new method involves performing the four standard steps to any product design-to-manufacturing sequence. The first step is to design the product from an initial concept. The second step is to design the manufacturing tooling necessary to produce this product. The third step is to build this manufacturing tooling and the final step is to produce the product using this tooling. The new method now involves the use of a 3-D solid modeling CAD/CAM system to design the pistons and the manufacturing tooling necessary to make these pistons.