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ArticleNew press starts at Nissan Sunderland
UK – Installation has been completed slightly over 18 months since groundbreaking and at a cost of £37m ($45.6m). At full capacity, the extra-large press will be able to produce 2.5m panels per year for the vehicles built at the plant: the Qashqai, Juke, Leaf, Q30 and QX30.“The new press ...
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ArticleVW Wolfsburg hits 44m-unit milestone
Germany – The record vehicle, a Golf GTE, rolled off the assembly line 72 years after production began at the OEM’s main plant. The highest-volume models in its history are the Golf, at 18m units, and the Beetle, with 12m produced up to 1975.Plant manager Stefan Loth described the milestone ...
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ArticlePallet-based transport system for BIW
The KS PULSE system features linear synchronous motors to transport automotive body components through the individual workstations of an automated assembly line quickly and safely, claims Kuka. The company says the system features low susceptibility to faults due to the small number of moving parts.The main element of the transport ...
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ArticleTHACO to produce two SUVs for PSA
Vietnam – The vehicles will be assembled at the Truong Haï Auto Corporation plant at Chulai, Quang Nam Province, according to the deal signed by the two companies. Operations will begin in October this year, with the aim of producing 27,000 units to meet domestic demand up to 2020.“The strengthening ...
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ArticleOptical measuring machine for quality assurance
GOM says it is expanding its ATOS series with a new sensor for full-field digitising and inspection of contoured part geometries. The company says a fringe projection system is used for production quality assurance of small to medium-sized parts. The ATOS Capsule can be used, for example, for first article ...
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Optical measuring machine for quality assurance (image-GOM_ATOS_Capsule_ProductImage_ScanBox.jpg) GOM says it is expanding its ATOS series with a new sensor for full-field digitising and inspection o
Optical measuring machine for quality assurance (image-GOM_ATOS_Capsule_ProductImage_ScanBox.jpg)GOM says it is expanding its ATOS series with a new sensor for full-field digitising and inspection of contoured part geometries. The company says a fringe projection system is used for production quality assurance of small to medium-sized parts. The ATOS Capsule can be ...
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ArticleNew press hardenable steels for automotive
ArcelorMittal claims the properties of its two new press hardenable steels – Usibor 2000 and Ductibor 1000 – complement each other, and when the two steels are combined into a single laser welded blank, offer several advantages including weight savings, improved crash behaviour and cost savings through material and manufacturing ...
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ArticleHonda makes changes to American teams
US – The appointments are taking place at American Honda Motor (AHM), Honda of America Manufacturing (HAM) and other Honda companies. They will be effective from April 1, 2017.AHM’s Jeff Conrad, senior vice-president and general manager of the Honda Automobile Division, will additionally take on responsibility for Acura and Core ...
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ArticleFCA US to open new training facility
US – The OEM will unveil its fourth World Class Manufacturing Academy (WCMA) site at Tipton, Indiana, this March. The $2.1m centre, funded by FCA US and Unite Automobile Workers (UAW), will serve personnel from the Tipton Transmission Plant (TTP) and the UAW National Training Center (NTC) Kokomo.“FCA US and ...
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ArticlePSA modernises Sochaux with €200m
France – The vehicle-maker said that its ‘Sochaux 2022’ project, worth $210.7m, has been underway for the past 36 months at the plant in the east of the country. A multidisciplinary team is attempting to bring the 100-year-old site up to the level of other factories in the PSA Group; ...
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ArticlePSA and Opel? Why, Carlos... why?
Periodically, the car industry goes through a burst of rationalisation, with companies closing plants and merging or creating alliances. This is typically accompanied by a flood of headlines and stories about the need for structural change, realignment in the industry and so forth. It has happened before and will happen ...
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ArticleAn order for progress
After the dips in demand of recent years, car makers in Brazil and Argentina anticipate an upturn in market fortunes and a boost in vehicle productionEmbattled vehicle makers operating in Brazil are predicting a return to growth in 2017 after the market sunk last year to nearly half its 2012 ...
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ArticleFormaplex adds coating lines, Voyager Park
UK – The company announced in February that it has spent £1.5m ($1.94m) on installing two semi-automated paint lines for components made at its production site in Portsmouth, Hampshire. The investment has increased capacity and expanded Formaplex’s finishing capabilities, providing greater flexibility for bespoke and short-run special projects.The new operation ...
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ArticleToyota gives Thomas group VP role
US – As group vice-president (VP), chief compliance officer for Toyota Motor North America (TMNA), Jacqueline Thomas will lead multiple departments: internal audit; compliance and ethics; regulatory compliance; customs/trade compliance; and assurance. Thomas will continue to report to Jim Lentz, CEO of TMNA.Thomas joined Toyota in 1999 as a financial ...
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ArticlePresidential suite
As Donald Trump has entered the White House, Ford has elected to make a number of key financial and strategic changesThings have changed at Ford in recent times, both financially and strategically. And since November 2016, its strategy has changed still further, with a number of key decisions taking on ...
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ArticleMcLaren to open composites facility
UK – The Composites Technology Centre in Sheffield will develop and manufacture the Monocell and Moncage carbon-fibre chassis in future McLaren cars. Construction work will begin in early 2017 and full production is scheduled for 2020. Meanwhile, pre-production chassis will be completed using trial processes at the nearby Advanced Manufacturing ...
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ArticleAfrican assembly for Peugeot vehicles
Kenya - The PSA Group and Kenyan importer and distributor URYSIA have signed a contract to assemble Peugeot brand vehicles in the region. Production will start in June 2017 with the Peugeot 508, followed by the new 3008 SUV.This project is part of the company’s "Push to Pass" ...
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ArticleKuhnt to lead BMW North America
US – In his new role as CEO, Bernhard Kuhnt will be responsible for the US market. His duties at BMW already included looking after Group importer markets, overseeing sales in more than 80 countries.As CEO, Kuhnt will need to appoint a successor to Petter Witt, executive vice-president Operations, who ...
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ArticleCompact, high-performance routers
INSYS icom says it will launch a new MRO series of compact, high-performance professional routers in April 2017. This series of routers is based on the established MRX modular router platform and support edge as well as cloud computing, says the company.Features include a built-in icom SmartBox and LXC-based Linux ...
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ArticleModular cylinder head machining tools
Mapal claims to have developed a new, modular tool concept for the machining of the valve spring seat and the parent metal bore for valve seat rings and valve guides on aluminium cylinder heads.Two combination tools are employed and the company says both can be designed for MQL machining and ...