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ArticleKorea: Carmaking powerhouse
Now the fifth-biggest nation for automotive production, Korea's success lies in exports to global markets. Production and sales are still strong, but challenges include competition at home and localisation overseas South Korea has done staggeringly well to become a global automotive production powerhouse within the last 20 years, but the ...
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ArticleMulti-sensor 5-axis measurement system
Renishaw has launched REVO-2, a new improved version of its multi-sensor 5-axis measuring head for use on co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs). The company says REVO-2 and its new CMM controller UCC S5 offer enhanced power and communications capability to carry the latest REVO sensors such as the RVP vision measurement ...
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ArticleValve spring testing system
SAKOR Technologies has supplied a valve spring test system to SAIC Motor Corporation. The company says the new SAKOR test stand will be used for valve train development and testing, and the information will be used to improve valve spring design performance and durability.The SAKOR test stand system is equipped ...
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ArticleProfile: Infiniti Decherd Powertrain
The Tennessee plant launched last year, as yet another collaboration between Renault-Nissan and Daimler A little more than a year ago, engine production started at the Infiniti Decherd Powertrain Plant near Nashville, Tennesse – a collaboration between the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler. The facility was described as “state-of-the-art” by Gary ...
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ArticleBMW ramps up at Hams Hall
UK – The engine plant has installed three new production lines as part of a £750m investment by BMW across its UK plants and is now stepping up production of the latest three- and four-cylinder engines. Hams Hall is expected to machine over 1m components this year as supply extends ...
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ArticleAudi starts South American production
Brazil – The factory at Curitiba, Paraná state, is not only the newest of 13 sites in the Audi production network but the OEM’s first in South America. The plant is now making the A3 sedan and will soon add the Q3.The A3 sedan 1.4 TFSI Flex is the first ...
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ArticleNorth America's rise before a fall?
Global vehicle-makers are investing in their manufacturing operations across the US and Mexico; AMS reviews the latest developments – and how they position the automotive industry for the next downturnGM splashes the cashFord shuffles production line-upFCA holds back on expansionToyota prepares for mega-platformNissan expands in the US and MexicoHonda boosts ...
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ArticleNew supercharger offers improved efficiency
Eaton says its newest supercharger, the TVS2, improves vehicle manufacturers’ ability to deliver an optimal single boosted application, or to pair this device with other boosting technologies to deliver compound boosting solutions for improved engine performance.Key elements in the design of the TVS2 include rotor profile changes to reduce the ...
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ArticleSeat and Audi appointments announced
Germany – Luca de Meo will take over as CEO at Seat and Dietmar Voggenreiter will replace him as board of management member for Sales and Marketing at Audi. The appointments will be effective from November 1.Described by Audi chairman Rupert Stadler as “the voice of our Italian brands in ...
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ArticleNissan to begin making NP300 Navara
Spain – An investment of €80m ($91m) has prepared the OEM's Barcelona plant for mass production of the new pick-up truck. It will soon be followed by one-tonne pick-ups for Renault and Mercedes-Benz, with all three models sharing some common architecture.Engineered at Nissan’s Technical Centre (NTCE) in Barcelona, the NP300 ...
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ArticleInterview: Keishi Egawa, Mazda
The OEM’s president and CEO in Mexico explains what its first North American factory means to MazdaKeishi Egawa, president and CEO, MMVOAMS: To what extent has the new Salamanca factory been inspired by Mazda’s plants in Japan, and is the level of production technology just as high?Keishi Egawa (KE): The ...
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ArticleBorgwarner opens new production facility
Hungary – BorgWarner has inaugurated a new manufacturing facility for emissions technologies at its campus in Oroszlány, Hungary. The 25,000 sq.m facility will produce key technologies for modern engines aimed at reducing emissions, such as exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valves, coolers, tubes and thermostats.The energy-efficient facility, located 76km outside of ...
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ArticleFirst US built plant for Yokohama
USA – Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi (YTMM) has opened its new $300m commercial truck tyre facility in West Point, Mississippi. Covering more than 500 acres of land, the YTMM plant houses manufacturing, warehousing and operations facilities, and will produce up to one million tyres annually when running at full capacity.The ...
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FARO Webinar: Metrology for the automotive industry
This webinar presented FARO solutions used across different automotive metrology applications.3D measurement and scanning technology solutions from FARO provide a user-friendly and accurate way of taking contact and non-contact measurements for quality control in automobile manufacturing and assembly.FARO’s portable CMMs (Coordinate Measuring Machines) such as articulating Arms and ScanArms can ...
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ArticleNew addition to CMM range
Designed specifically to offer process speed and efficiency to manufacturers requiring accurate tactile scanning and high throughput, Hexagon Metrology has launched the GLOBAL EVO coordinate measuring machine (CMM).The company says the EVO machine features a number of new technologies to improve speed without compromising on performance. Central to the design ...
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ArticleOptimised cleaning baskets
Metallform has developed and produced a range of efficient component cleaning and transport baskets. The company says it has designed a workpiece holder that minimises transfer processes while ensuring efficient cleaning processes, reducing parts handling and the risk of component damage and re-contamination.The workpiece holders can be adapted to the ...
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ArticleInterview: Ford's Ron Ketelhut
The chief body construction engineer who masterminded the renovation of the F-150 bodyshop to make aluminium pick-ups explains how this was done in just one month – resulting in cleaner, quieter productionAMS: Compared with other projects you have previously worked on, how challenging was the bodyshop renovation for the F-150 ...
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ArticleBodyshop of the future
In order to turn its bestselling F-150 into an aluminium vehicle, Ford first had to transform the bodyshop"It’s extremely quiet, it’s clean, it’s small” – this seems like a modest description for the home of the automotive manufacturing innovation that has perhaps caused more noise than any other over the ...
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ArticleGetting the measure of plastics
New technologies can overcome the specific challenges involved in measuring plastic vehicle componentsA large proportion of the take-up of plastics by the automotive industry is constituted by trim components, along with a variety of electrical parts, such as housings, sensors, switches, sockets and displays. In addition, designers switching from glass ...