Joanne Perry

  • Brose Coventry
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    Sitting pretty

    2017-10-30T16:21:16

    Brose UK has now insourced the painting of seat structures, bringing efficiency and evironmental savings"This is a massive show of faith and confirms the Group’s intention of giving us the technology and capability we need to take on and successfully deliver higher volumes for our local customers,” said Juergen Zahl, ...

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    Fazendo o Milagre

    2017-09-12T16:21:53

    Parece apropriado que a fábrica onde a Toyota fez seus primeiros carros de passageiros no final da década de 1950, seja agora o cenário de produção pioneira para potencialmente a próxima fase da mobilidade: veículos de célula de combustível (FCVs). Quando a Usina Motomachi na Prefeitura de Aichi, descobriu o ...

  • Mirai, Toyota Motomachi
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    El futuro a través del Mirai

    2017-09-12T08:39:00

    La falta de infraestructura está ralentizando la presencia de vehículos de energías alternativas aunque los procesos de producción manuales pueden resultar admirables. AMS visitó Motomachi para conocer la producción del vehículo de celdas de combustible de Toyota Parece adecuado que la fábrica donde Toyota produjo sus primeros vehículos de pasajeros ...

  • Hyundai Ulsan
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    Bigger not always better

    2017-08-15T09:58:40

    The largest automotive manufacturing complex in the world boasts five high-tech plants, but sales slumps and strikes have affected output at Hyundai Ulsan. AMS paid a visit to Fifth Plant to see Genesis productionThere is no place in the automotive world like Hyundai Ulsan. With five vehicle plants spread over ...

  • Hyundai Ulsan
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    Editor's note: The politics of production

    2017-08-14T15:56:39

    I hate to give more attention to an egotist, but when the leader of the most powerful nation on earth threatens to start trade wars with other global big-hitters you have to at least allow for the possibility that he might do what he says. Among others, the key countries ...

  • SsangYong Pyeongtaek
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    SsangYong: SUV-iving

    2017-08-14T15:29:10

    Korea’s smallest carmaker has recently reported record sales, but its only vehicle plant is still underutilisedSales of 12,697 in a month may not seem like much for a mainstream vehicle-maker – and this figure is certainly dwarfed by the 376,109 units reported for June by Korean giant Hyundai – but ...

  • Q60, Nissan Tochigi
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    Nissan Tochigi's human touch

    2017-08-14T12:06:48

    Automotive manufacturing is known for its robotics, but Nissan’s ‘master craftsmen’ show that there is still a place for human skill. AMS went to see them at work on the GTR and Infiniti models made at Tochigi, JapanMost countries value luxury products, but few cherish the beauty of production quite ...

  • Mirai, Toyota Motomachi
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    Making a Mirai-cle

    2017-08-14T10:44:07

    A lack of infrastructure is holding back the take up of alternatively powered vehicles, but the manufacturing process can be a wonder of manual labour. AMS went to Motomachi to see Toyota making its fuel-cell modelIt seems fitting that the factory where Toyota made its first passenger cars, in the ...

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    创造未来的奇迹

    2017-08-14T10:44:07

    虽然缺乏基础设施阻碍了生产,但是公司制造的替代能源动力汽车却是手工劳动创造的奇迹。AMS参观丰田Motomachi工厂生产燃料电池车的状况

  • Chairless Chair, Audi
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    Homem ou máquina?

    2017-07-12T12:26:43

    Os fabricantes de veículos estão apresentando equipamentos mais usáveis para aliviar tensões e tensões, dando aos trabalhadores da montagem um aspecto de ciborgue. A AMS reporta as inovações mais recentes lançadas pela Audi e BMW

  • BMW Dingolfing
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    Mais inteligente e seguro

    2017-07-12T12:05:50

    À medida que as instalações de produção crescem em complexidade através da interconexão de capacidades cibernéticas físicas e humanas, os fabricantes de automóveis estão enfrentando riscos de segurança adicionais ao lado de novas possibilidadesA fabricação automotiva está entrando para o que Christian Dunckern, diretor do Sistema de Produção do Grupo ...

  • Chairless Chair, Audi
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    ¿Hombre o máquina?

    2017-07-10T17:44:00

    Los constructores automotrices están presentando nuevos equipos vestibles para reducir el esfuerzo que otorgan a los ensambladores un aspecto cibernético. En AMS analizamos las últimas innovaciones que están aplicando en Audi y BMW Los robots utilizados en la industria automotriz son cada vez más humanos y pueden trabajar de manera ...

  • BMW Dingolfing
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    Más inteligente y más seguro

    2017-07-10T17:11:31

    A medida que instalaciones de producción son cada vez más complejas debido a su interconexión de capacidades cibernéticas, físicas y humanas, los constructores automotrices se están dando cuenta que las nuevas posibilidades están generando nuevos riesgos de seguridad La producción automotriz está llegando a lo que Christian Dunckern, director en ...

  • BMW Dingolfing
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    Smarter and safer

    2017-07-03T14:32:08

    As production facilities grow in complexity through the interconnection of cyber, physical and human capabilities, automotive manufacturers are encountering additional safety risks alongside new possibilitiesAutomotive manufacturing is entering what Christian Dunckern, head of BMW Group Production System, Planning, Toolmaking and Plant Engineering, calls “the time of smart devices and digitalisation”, ...

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    更加智能、更加安全

    2017-07-03T14:32:08

    随着生产厂通过网络、实体和人力互连,复杂度不断升级,汽车制造商面临更多的安全风险和新的可能性。

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    人力还是机械?

    2017-06-29T14:59:18

    汽车制造商不断引进可穿戴设备,以此缓解压力和紧张,装配产工人看上去像是机械人。AMS报道Audi和BMW最新改革成果

  • Chairless Chair, Audi
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    Man or machine?

    2017-06-29T14:59:18

    Vehicle-makers are introducing more wearable equipment to alleviate stresses and strains, giving assembly workers a somewhat cyborg look. AMS reports on the latest innovations being rolled out by Audi and BMWAs the robots used in automotive manufacturing become more human, able to work collaboratively and intelligently, in one sense human ...

  • Mirai, Toyota Motomachi
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    Travel blog: Getting hands on in Japan

    2017-06-09T16:37:23

    Are traffic lights in public toilets strictly necessary? I would suggest they are a little redundant when the possession of at least one functioning eye can alert you to an available cubicle just as easily. Japan, however, is a nation so fussy about functionality that it takes automation to extremes, ...

  • Mladá Boleslav
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    Pressionando adiante

    2017-05-31T10:32:39

    Não satisfeito com a instalação da primeira tecnologia PXL no Grupo VW, a Skoda abriu agora uma segunda linha servo-mecânica que é capaz de produzir grandes componentes de alumínio.Mladá - ou "Jovem" - Boleslav parece um nome irônico para uma cidade onde até mesmo a produção automotiva é considerada antiga. ...

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    Prensando en el futuro

    2017-05-30T09:36:07

    Skoda fue la primera marca del grupo VW en utilizar la tecnología PLX, además, ahora ha inaugurado una segunda línea servo-mecánica que será capaz de producir componentes grandes de aluminio. AMS visitó la planta Mladá – o “joven” – Boleslav parece un nombre irónico para una ciudad donde incluso la ...

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