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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 ...
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ArticleThrilling milling
Producing high quantity prismatic machined parts for the automotive industry has taken many paths over the yearsToday’s automotive manufacturing engineers appear to favour flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) or cells, as opposed to dedicated transfer lines. Typically, this is because today’s vehicle models have a shorter production life than those of ...
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ArticleLow friction hub bearing unit
SKF claims it has introduced a new inboard seal for hub bearing units that can deliver a 50% cut in friction. The cassette seal accommodates current ABS encoders and features an external lip and an optimised labyrinth design that collects and redirects contamination flow away from a main radial lip, ...
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ArticleBus analysis oscilloscope
Yokogawa has added support for Peripheral Sensor Interface 5 (PSI5) bus analysis on its 8-channel DLM4000 and 2 and 4-channel DLM2000 oscilloscopes, which, the company claims, makes its oscilloscopes useful for automotive designers and engineers.The Peripheral Sensor Interface 5 (PSI5) is a widely used open standard based interface for in-vehicle ...
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Article5-axis machining centre
Mecof’s UMILL 1800, machine has a 1,800 mm x 2,150 mm x 1,250 mm working volume and, the company says, does not require special foundations. It is suitable for 5-axis and 5-sided metal cutting applications in automotive industries.The machine can be supplied with a number of spindle options and there ...
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ArticleLectra machines feed Kolon growth
South Korea/Vietnam – The company is supplying three FocusQuantum laser cutting solutions for airbag production; two will be used for one-piece woven fabric at a factory in Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, while another will be installed for cut-and-sew work at a new facility in Bình Duong Province, Vietnam.“We aim to ...