All JLR articles – Page 7
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ArticleChanges ahead for Europe
Manufacturers operating in Europe are continuing to push into the lower cost east as overall sales volumes in the region approach pre-crisis levels againMakers such as Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen, Ford and Daimler are among those building new plants or expanding existing ones to take advantage of benefits such lower ...
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ArticleOportunidade de porta aberta
Muito trabalho de P&D tem sido feito para reduzir o peso das estruturas de veículos, mas os sistemas de fechamento ainda representam uma oportunidade significativa para economias de pesoOs fechamentos são montados após a montagem da carroceria e podem ser construídos off-line, o que significa que eles podem ser feitos ...
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Una nueva puerta para reducir peso
La investigación y el desarrollo han conseguido reducir el peso estructural de los automóviles, pero todavía hay mucho margen en los sistemas de cierreLos cierres se montan después del ensamblado de la carrocería y se pueden construir fuera de la línea, lo que significa que pueden producirse en materiales diferentes ...
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ArticleElringklinger starts JLR parts production
UK – Under the terms of a £12m ($15.5m) contract, the company will make 36 types of heat-shield and gasket components at its base in Redcar, North Yorkshire, for use in engine bays and vehicle assemblies across six engine variants. JLR’s demands for parts have increased after the opening in ...
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ArticleOpen-door opportunity
Much R&D work has been done to reduce the weight of vehicle structures, but closures still represent a significant opportunity for weight savingsClosures are mounted after body assembly and can be built up off-line, meaning that they can be made of entirely different materials, such as aluminium, to the vehicle’s ...
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ArticleJLR’s EMC makes first petrol Ingenium
UK – The engine, which will debut in vehicles this summer, marks the completion of the first phase of the Engine Manufacturing Centre (EMC). The $1 billion plant in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, was opened in 2014 to supply the OEM’s three vehicle factories in the country.The manufacture of this first ...
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Desbancando ineficiências
Inovações de ferramentas combinadas com parcerias de fornecedores estão se provando importantes para o ganho competitivo em oficinas de máquinas automotivas em todo o mundoA fábrica de motores da Ford Bridgend, no Reino Unido, que produz mais de 750.000 motores a gasolina por ano, se envolveu em uma parceria de ...
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Feito sob medida
Com uma capacidade total de processamento de 750.000 toneladas de metal por ano, não é nenhuma surpresa descobrir que a indústria automotiva é um dos principais clientes da Tata SteelparkA Tata Steelpark perto de Wolverhampton, Reino Unido, é um dos principais locais de processamento de aço na Europa. Bobinas de ...
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ArticlePuliendo asperezas
Las innovaciones en utillaje y la colaboración con proveedores están resultando críticas para obtener una ventaja competitiva en los talleres de mecanizado automotriz de todo el mundoLa planta de motores de Ford en la británica Bridgend produce 750,000 motores de gasolina al año y ha iniciado una asociación con la ...
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ArticleAcero a medida
Con una capacidad de producción de 750,000 toneladas anuales, no es ninguna sorpresa que la industria automotriz sea uno de los principales clientes de Tata SteelparkTata Steelpark cerca de Wolverhampton, Reino Unido, uno de los principales centros de procesamiento de acero en Europa. El acero llega en bobinas a la ...
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ArticleAfter PSA and Opel, who's next?
The acquisition of Opel/Vauxhall by PSA, which should be complete by the end of this year, took the industry by surprise. With Opel/Vauxhall still losing money in Q3 2016, GM’s chief financial officer, Chuck Stevens, said the company would do what was required to put the situation right. Most observers ...
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No quarteirão
A mistura de abastecimento in-house e externo que OEMs implantam regularmente na produção de motor do veículo tornam a sua cadeia de fornecimento bastante distinta da de todos os outros componentes ao longo da linha de montagem.Motores, seja a diesel ou a gasolina, possuem uma cadeia de suprimentos que é ...
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ArticleA vueltas con el motor
Los armadores recurren tanto a la producción interna y como externa para la producción del motor, por lo que la cadena de suministro de sus componentes es muy diferente a las demás en la línea de ensambladoLos motores, ya sean diesel o gasolina, tienen una cadena de suministro muy diferente ...
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ArticleTailor-made
With a total throughput capacity of 750,000 tonnes of metal per year, it is no surprise to discover the automotive industry is a major customer of the Tata SteelparkThe Tata Steelpark near Wolverhampton, UK, is one of the major steel processing sites in Europe. Inbound, coiled steel from the company’s ...
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- 发动机概况
OEM制造商对汽车发动机采用厂内生产与厂外采购混合形式，这与装配线上其他组件的生产是不同的。发动机，不管是柴油机和汽油机，其供应链与汽车装配厂所用组件的供应链非常不同。从本质上讲，这是因为发动机不是在汽车厂制造的，但是要供应给公司内外不同地点的不同车型。汽车制造商所用大部分发动机都是自己生产的，虽然有些跨公司供应也存在；举例来说，Renault公司为Mercedes公司供应1.5升发动机（这是因为Renault-Nissan-Daimler联盟），而Ford公司为Jaguar Land Rover制造V8发动机。BMW公司还未英国丰田供应1.6升及2.0升柴油机。 Hams Hall, BMW’s UK factory, is the principal engine supply site for the Mini range and the BMW 1-series and 2-series models汽车公司还锻造大部分发动机缸体和发动机罩，尽管外面有一些供应商 — 比如Nemak公司，在全球都有生产足迹。大部分也都是汽车公司和独立供应商会在厂内制造像曲轴、连杆和凸轮轴这样的零部件。与此相反，涡轮增压器、过滤器、活塞、气门机构零部件、电子及控件一般都是从外部采购。下面我们主要看汽车公司厂内供应发动机和主要铸件的安排，以及外部供应商的作用。以下讨论的汽车公司例子在业内非常典型，这种情况在其他大型汽车公司内比比皆是。BMW宝马是德国高端商标，公司所有发动机都是内部生产，产欧洲有4个产地 — 奥地利、英国各一个，德国有两个 — 中国还有一个。德国的一个工厂在慕尼黑附近的Landshut，制造大部分铝材发动机缸体和缸盖，用于Steyr（奥地利）、Munich（德国）和Hams Hall（英国伯明翰附近）工厂的发动机加工。Landshut工厂还制造曲轴箱和变速器，而Steyr工厂制造曲轴箱、曲轴、连杆，而且还加工气缸盖，每年装配大约120万部发动机，其中的三分之二是柴油发动机，其余的汽油发动机。Munich工厂是BMW公司主要的汽油发动机工厂，而且还生产大型6缸柴油发动机。英国工厂是Mini系列和BMW 1系列和2系列车型的主要发动机供应地。工厂生产的一些发动机会出口到中国宝马公司，以及亚洲很多宝马全散件装配工厂。中国的发动机厂从欧洲宝马公司进口气缸体和气缸盖，但是中国制造的发动机采用了当地生产的曲轴箱、曲轴和连杆。Daimler-Mercedes 习惯上，梅赛德斯的发动机一直都是在德国Berlin（制造大型柴油机和汽油机）、Kolleda（在MFA平台上制造Smart系列和A级和B及车型及变体车型发动机）和Untertürkheim工厂制造，这些工厂分布在Bad Canstatt附近，每年共生产650,000-700,000部发动机。Untertürkheim工厂是梅赛德斯主要铸造厂，制造所需大部分气缸体和气缸盖。为了满足不断增长的需求，梅赛德斯目前在德国以外的欧洲工厂生产发动机，比如波兰Jawor。该厂加工并装配发动机，使用逐渐来自梅赛德斯自己的工厂和外部供应商。和宝马一样，梅赛德斯在中国生产发动机，用以满足当地不断增长的需求，提高本体成分，并降低进口税。 Ford supplies its regional operations from engine production sites in North America and EuropeFord福特全球发动机生产网络区域地区化，主要的发动机生产厂在北美和欧洲，为地区工厂供应。在欧洲，福特公司在德国（Cologne）、罗马尼亚（Cariova）、西班牙（Valencia）、土耳其（Kocaeli）和英国（Bridgend）生产汽油机；公司专注英国（Dagenham）柴油发动机的生产。福特公司在气缸体和气缸盖采用刬内生产和外购混合模式，这些零部件就是在以上工厂加工装配的。英国工厂只是加工装配厂，也就是说没有自己的铸造厂。公司北美发动机厂在Ohio（有两个工厂）、Michigan（两个工厂）、Canada（两个工厂）和墨西哥的Chihuahua。除了北美和欧洲，福特公司在中国有两家发动机厂，在印度有两家，巴西有两家，南非有一家。所有这些工厂主要都用于供应地方汽车厂，只有一些组件出口。南美工厂每年生产110,000部发动机整机，以及220,000部发动机装备，用于出口，主要是印度。福特南非工厂是一个历史性的壮举，它成为第一个具有洲际意义的发动机组件生产地。在20世纪60年底啊，工厂为英国发动机进行边缘生产，从英国向南非运送铸件和锻件，进行加工制造，然后再运回英国，安装到发动机上。 PSA’s ...
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ArticleAround the block
The mix of in-house and external sourcing that OEMs regularly deploy in vehicle engine production make its supply chain quite distinct from that of all other components along the assembly lineEngines, whether diesel or petrol, have a supply chain that is quite distinct from that which provides components to vehicle ...
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ArticleEdging out inefficiencies
Tooling innovations matched with supplier partnerships are proving critical to competitive gain at automotive machine shops the world overFord’s Bridgend engine plant in the UK, which produces over 750,000 petrol engines a year, has engaged in a cutting-tool partnership with Mapal to help the factory to hit its SPC targets ...
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ArticleGestamp to open aluminium plant, Nitra
Slovakia – The €133m ($140.8m) facility will supply carmakers including Jaguar Land Rover, which is building a factory in the country. More than 80% of the output will be aluminium-based.The plant will cover 42,400 sq.m and start production in 2018, focusing on products which reduce vehicle weight while maintaining safety. ...
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Uma questão premente
Com as novas oportunidades que se abrem, o setor de prensagem e estampagem independente continua a evoluir.Tomadores de decisão focados em tecnologias exigentes impulsionadas por regulação - especialmente quanto às emissões, conectividade, carros autônomos e elétricos - limitações em termos de recursos e capacidades significa que novas oportunidades estão se ...
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Una cuestión de prensado
Se abren nuevas oportunidades para el sector independiente de prensado y estampación que sigue evolucionandoLos constructores se centran en nuevas tecnologías exigentes y requeridas por las nuevas normativas, especialmente en lo referente a emisiones, conectividad y los vehículos autónomos y eléctricos. las limitaciones en términos de recursos y capacidades significan ...