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Porsche: Inside the Macan paintshop

AMS Paintshop 2022 – Paint it Green

The evolution will be televised: welcome to the online AMS Summit

Kevin Brundish, AMTE, Herminso Villarrago-Gomez, Zeiss, Lars Carlstrom, Italvolt

Getting giga with it – ramping up battery cell production

AI data analytics for the paintshop

Porsche: Inside the Macan paintshop
AMS Paintshop 2022 – Paint it Green
The evolution will be televised: welcome to the online AMS Summit
Getting giga with it – ramping up battery cell production
AI data analytics for the paintshop

Editor's Pick

The leaders of the pack
2021-12-22T09:00:00+00:00By Jason Dunn
Producing battery enclosures and packs is an important part of EV assembly, and manufacturers are focused on better standardising and inspecting parts to improve automation and quality. Jason Dunn reports from the AMS Evolution Summit held online in December
An electric shock to the system
2021-12-17T15:22:00+00:00By Christopher Ludwig, Daniel Harrison
Italvolt founder Lars Carlstrom has a mission to scale up EV battery production in Europe with a new factory in Italy – and a blueprint for scaling up gigafactory development. He speaks to Christopher Ludwig and Daniel Harrison
Better than the real thing: digital factory simulations
2021-12-17T13:25:00+00:00By AMS
Increasing production of battery enclosures at scale will be essential to launching EVs in line with targets. ABB’s Patrick Matthews and Zeiss’s Paulo Cruz discuss automation and quality control opportunities.

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Spotlight: AMS EVolution on-demand

Electrifying heavy truck production at Scania

Britishvolt receives UK government support for Northumberland EV battery plant as sustainability goals drive localised manufacturing

2022-01-21T15:26:00+00:00By Jason Dunn

The British government has confirmed it will fund the creation of an electric vehicle battery plant in Northumberland.

VW and Toyota suspend Tianjin plants as local Covid lockdown measures hit production outlook

2022-01-17T16:59:00+00:00By Jason Dunn

Volkswagen Group in China has announced that it will be closing a plant in the city of Tianjin, as well as a component factory, following resurgent Covid-19 cases in the coastal city.

Novelis invests in aluminium recycling to meet automotive demand

2022-01-17T12:48:00+00:00By Jason Dunn

Novelis is investing $365m to construct an advanced aluminium recycling centre for the automotive industry in North America. The new recycling facility will be built adjacent to Novelis’ existing automotive finishing plant in Guthrie, Kentucky. 

ZF launches new commercial vehicle solutions division

2022-01-13T18:20:00+00:00By AMS

The new division will combine company’s commercial vehicle technology expertise and capabilities, to develop autonomous, connected and electrified (ACE) technologies

Making the digital a reality: how AI and virtual reality are adapting automotive manufacturing to a changing world

2022-01-11T11:59:00+00:00By Jason Dunn

Automotive manufacturers are facing the challenge of constantly changing vehicles, technologies and parts. However, stakeholders can increasingly plan and implement systems faster using real-time manufacturing data, digital twin simulation and training through augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR).

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Battery Manufacturing Analysis

Britishvolt receives UK government support for Northumberland EV battery plant as sustainability goals drive localised manufacturing
2022-01-21T15:26:00+00:00By Jason Dunn
The British government has confirmed it will fund the creation of an electric vehicle battery plant in Northumberland.
VinFast invests in StoreDot extreme fast charge battery cell development
2022-01-11T10:57:00+00:00By AMS
StoreDot’s Series D funding round will be up to $80m and the capital will be used for completion of R&D and mass production scale-up of silicon dominant extreme fast charging (XFC) battery cells by 2024
AMS Paintshop 2022 – Paint it Green
2022-01-07T11:34:00+00:00By AMS
In this edition we get insights into how OEMs are adapting and developing their paintshop operations and processes to meet the need for more efficient and sustainable production, as well as insight into scaling up battery production

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Manufacturing Technology and Automation

Britishvolt receives UK government support for Northumberland EV battery plant as sustainability goals drive localised manufacturing
2022-01-21T15:26:00+00:00By Jason Dunn
VW and Toyota suspend Tianjin plants as local Covid lockdown measures hit production outlook
2022-01-17T16:59:00+00:00By Jason Dunn
Novelis invests in aluminium recycling to meet automotive demand
2022-01-17T12:48:00+00:00By Jason Dunn

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Materials Innovation and Light-weighting

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OEMs and Suppliers in Focus

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Exclusive Podcast: Automation and reality – bridging the disconnect

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The constant advance of digital, communication and robotic technologies means that engineers are now looking at the ‘automation of automation’. It sounds exciting, but what does it mean in the real world of manufacturing and production?