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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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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 ...
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ArticlePlant floor automated 3D scanning and gauging
Perceptron has extended its family of industrial gauging products with the launch of the AutoScan Collaborative RoboGauge. The company says this offers automated robotic 3D scanning for dimensional measurement and gauging applications on the manufacturing floor. The system combines Fanuc robot technology and Perceptron’s Helix smart scanning sensor, integrated ...
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ArticleInterview: Thomas Karig at VWdM
The vice-president of corporate affairs tells AMS how the OEM’s manufacturing complex at Puebla is still growing after five decades of production, with the addition of bodyshops for the new Golf and TiguanThomas Karig, VP of corporate affairs, VWdMAMS: Which models is Puebla currently making?Thomas Karig (TK): Puebla is producing ...
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ArticleVW Puebla pushes on
A veteran of vehicle production in the country, VW is nonetheless still expanding at Puebla – adding a new bodyshop for the Golf last year and another for the Tiguan that will open in 2017. AMS went to look aroundAt 550,000 sq.m on 3m sq.m of land, VW Puebla is ...
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ArticleHonda invests $210m in vehicle paint system
.USA – Honda is to install a new, state-of-the-art paint line at its Marysville Auto Plant (MAP). The company says the new MAP Line 1 paint facility will utilise new technologies to reduce energy and water use, and chemical emissions from the vehicle painting process. This will include the ...
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ArticleVolvo breaks ground in South Carolina
USA – The Swedish OEM has begun construction of its new car manufacturing facility in Berkeley County, South Carolina. The company is investing $500m in the new facility which will produce the next-generation Volvo S60 sedan, based on the new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) and will have an initial capacity ...
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ArticleA magnet for manufacturing
Low-cost labour and free-trade deals are attracting investment in Mexico by global OEMs and suppliersVehicle production is booming in Mexico. In 2014, a record 3.22m vehicles were made there, an increase of nearly 10% on 2013. Much of the rising production was in response to strong demand from the US ...
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ArticleBridgend to produce low-emission engines
UK – Ford has approved an investment of £181m at its Bridgend engine plant in South Wales to produce a family of all-new, fuel-efficient petrol engines. The investment includes Welsh Government support of £14.67m, with production planned to start in late 2018.The new low-emission engines have been designed and developed ...
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ArticleAt the crossroads?
AMS looks at Japanese OEMs in Europe and what the future holds for their production operations thereFour of the Japanese vehicle companies have manufacturing operations in Europe: Honda, Nissan, Suzuki and Toyota. Nissan’s UK factory in Sunderland is widely regarded as one of the most efficient in Europe, while its ...