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ArticleA digital factory model
The creation of a single digital model of your factory, together with the integration of 3D to existing 2D capability, will help you to understand equipment clashes and space constraints before going into production. This will add leverage to existing 2D legacy datasets and knowledge to improve your design efficiency, ...
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ArticleTurning less Japanese
As Nissan looks increasingly beyond its home market, AMS reviews its global production footprintAlthough Nissan is one of the most recognisably Japanese automotive brands, it is also one of the most outward-looking and is actively engaged in reducing its dependency on its home market. The vehicle-maker actually has three brands: ...
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ArticleChrysler expands at Sterling Heights
US – With the launch of the Chrysler 200, the vehicle-maker has in-sourced several key processes, added new content and implemented World Class Manufacturing (WCM). The workforce at the Michigan facility has increased by 800 to 2,800, more than double the complement in 2009.Recent investments totalling nearly $1 billion have ...
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ArticleAAT begins new Mazda3 production
Thailand – Known as Mazda Adela in Japan, the new model is being manufactured by AutoAlliance Thailand (AAT) for the local market, ahead of the sales launch this month.Masamichi Kogai, president of Mazda, described AAT as “one of Mazda’s most important production facilities in terms of the future growth of ...
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ArticleScania to supply Austrian public organisations
Austria – The OEM will deliver 485 trucks over a three-year period ending in March 2017, for use by cities, organisations and operators such as ASFINAG. The agreement with public procurement organisation Bundesbeschaffungs (BBG) is worth €65m ($91m).The order covers a variety of truck types including winter service vehicles, refuse ...
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ArticleHuntsman supplies resin for BMW i3
Europe – The epoxy resin has been specified by the vehicle-maker for the manufacture of structural composite parts for its all-electric vehicle in volume production. Huntsman materials will be used for the side frame as well as other composite components which are assembled to form the ‘life module’ or passenger ...
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ArticleJCB relocates compaction equipment production
UK/India – Following a strategic review which will close the company’s Gatersleben site in Germany, manufacture of all walk-behind models plus VMT160 and VMT260 Tandem Rollers will go to the JCB Attachments factory in Uttoxeter, UK. Production of the 403 Wheeled Loading Shovel will also be returned to the JCB ...
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ArticleQuick change tooling system
A new quick-change tool system that reduces the labour and time required for tooling changeover on tube bending machines has been designed by AddisonMckee. The company claims that “part to part” tool changes with either single or multi-stack tooling can be accomplished by one person in under 10 minutes. A ...
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ArticleNew laser workstation
SIC Marking has launched the XL- Box, a new laser marker designed for the marking and traceability of components. It is equipped with a fibre laser source doped with Ytterbium which, the company says, allows light or deep marking of alphanumeric codes- barcode and 2D Data Matrix codes, on all ...
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ArticleNext generation power sources for plasma cutting system
ESAB Cutting Systems has introduced new EPP-202 and EPP-362 Precision Plasmarc power sources for the m3 Plasma system. The new EPP units use all-digital control circuitry and a new high-speed data bus connection, which provides precise current control and gas regulation, as well as enhanced diagnostic capabilities, claims the company. ...
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Atlas Copco extends compressor range
In addition to expanding the GA VSD+ range, with new models from 18-37kW, the company has also introduced its new “condensation prevention cycle” for Variable Speed Drive compressors. Thanks to an algorithm in the Elektronikon controller of the GA VSD+, condensation in the compression oil is prevented in all circumstances, ...
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ArticleSpecialist wire & cable supplier launches new website
C&M Technologies says its new site offers useful technical content related to the design and specification of wire and cable, cable assemblies and coil cords. The content includes white papers, technical data sheets and engineering calculators. In addition, the company has created an online cable design guide, which provides design ...
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Drive monitor offers machine safety flexibility
SICK has expanded its Flexi Soft modular safety control system to include the new FX3-MOC drive monitor. The company says the new drive monitor is suitable for a variety of stationery and mobile machine safety applications, especially for machines that require frequent intervention where maintaining a controlled speed is beneficial ...
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ArticleGM Joinville gains LEED certification
Brazil – Recognition from the US Green Building Council makes the engine plant the first automotive facility in South America to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold standard, says GM. According to the vehicle-maker, the certification is the result of investments in sustainability from the start of ...
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ArticleChrysler Brampton certified for energy management
Canada – The vehicle-maker announced that its assembly facility is the first in Canada to achieve the ISO 50001: 2011 standard from international certification organisation TÜV.Brampton Assembly Plant (BAP) has implemented energy management measures including lighting control which saves $110,000 per year in annual electricity costs, plus automated heating, ventilation ...
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ArticleHAM to install CNG fuelling station, Ohio
US – The vehicle-maker is implementing the compressed natural gas (CNG) station at its Marysville Auto Plant as part of broader efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and the environmental impact of its operations.The CNG station, which will be designed, constructed and operated by Trillium CNG, will be the first such ...
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ArticleBMW progresses with i8
Germany – The OEM announced that development work and production preparations have now been completed at its plant in Leipzig. From June, customer deliveries will begin with the main European markets.BMW says it has a backlog of orders, with demand exceeding planned production volume during ramp-up. Customers have been able ...
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ArticleKarim Mikkiche, Renault-Nissan
The managing director of RNTBCI talks economical engineering with AMS‘Frugal engineering’. It’s a phrase you hear a lot at the joint Renault-Nissan technical centre in India, the only one within the Alliance to serve both brands, and now also the newly resurrected Datsun. But ‘frugal engineering’ is not a polite ...
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ArticleInvesting in Ingolstadt
The Audi production complex will complete a €1 billion upgrade by the end of next year; AMS takes a lookAudi’s headquarters at Ingolstadt, north of Munich, is much more than an administrative, technical and manufacturing hub these days. The usable area of the site covers 2.1m sq. m and over ...
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ArticleRolls-Royce funds new design/manufacturing centre
UK – A 5,800 sq.m centre will be built at Antsy Park, Coventry, following a £40m ($67m) investment by the OEM, plus a £20m government grant via the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE) UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF).A collaboration between Rolls-Royce and the University of Birmingham, the ...