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Watch now: How to maximise efficiency in battery tray manufacturing and integration

2024-10-28T15:15:00+00:00

This webinar showcased innovative, cost-efficient quality processes to assure 100% quality in battery manufacturing. New quality solutions from Hexagon enable automakers to detect defects efficiently and ensure a perfect fit into the underbody of the car.

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Watch Now: Next-Gen Gapfillers: Henkel’s Blueprint for Automotive Electronics

2024-09-12T09:05:00+01:00

This webinar explored Henkel’s latest innovations in thermal gap fillers, designed specifically for automotive electronics.

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Korea’s LG, SK On and Samsung lead Prismatic battery revival

2024-08-13T07:52:00+01:00By

South Korean battery powerhouses LG Energy Solution, SK On, and Samsung SDI are driving a resurgence in prismatic battery technology, challenging the dominance of other battery formats in the EV market.

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Nissan to transition to low-CO2 emission aluminium by 2030

2024-05-23T18:07:00+01:00By

Through sourcing and using low CO2 emission aluminium, Nissan aims to significantly reduce CO2 emissions.

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How BMW is ramping up its circular production principles

2024-04-02T16:43:00+01:00By

BMW is moving towards sustainbable production and circularity at an increasing pace with projects like its iFactory, Car2Car and Catena-X supporting the shift. Head of Climate Strategy and Circular Economy, Dr. Irene Feige takes the sustainable hotseat. 

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Henkel Whitepaper: Sustainable Processing Solutions for Automotive Manufacturing

2024-04-02T01:04:00+01:00

Learn how Henkel’s processing solutions enable sustainable, next-generation vehicle manufacturing across the value chain, from molten metal to final component

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Changing dynamics– developing the next generation of vehicle architectures

2024-03-14T19:16:00+00:00By

Building electric vehicles has demanded big changes in OEM production operations and increased support from tier suppliers

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Join DESIGN4PRODUCTION: innovating across car design and manufacturing engineering

2024-02-29T09:34:00+00:00By

Automotive design and manufacturing experts will share insights at Design4Production in Munich on 15 May on how to accelerate innovation, efficiency and sustainability.

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The co-evolution of EVs, architectures and production processes

2024-01-30T17:04:00+00:00By

Electric vehicles are reshaping manufacturing norms, from platform flexibility to crash protection systems, challenging traditional designs and material choices amidst evolving battery technologies. ArcelorMittal and Gestamp dive into challenges and solutions.

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Watch Now: Shaping the future: How electric vehicles are driving manufacturing decisions

2024-01-24T09:30:00+00:00

Explore electric vehicle (EV) architecture design and manufacturing complexities, from flexible platforms to battery integration challenges.

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BMW begins production at German cell manufacturing competence centre

2023-10-27T14:58:00+01:00By

BMW has started production of cylindrical battery cells at its €170m Cell Manufacturing Competence Centre (CMCC) inear Munich in Parsdorf, Germany.

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How digitalisation is ramping up battery cell production for EVs

2023-10-24T12:30:00+01:00By

Digitalisation is helping to scale up battery cell production in North America through improving standardisation and traceability and ensuring quality of materials.

To overcome challenges, automakers are turning to advanced automation and robotics, which play a central role in streamlining these evolving production processes to ensure an efficient and sustainable future

Battery production and design need to be optimised together, says Volvo Trucks and ABB

2023-10-09T17:57:00+01:00By

Experts from the truckmaker and automation specialist pointed to the benefits of aligning battery engineering and production processes in an AMS livestream.

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The evolution of EV battery enclosures: balancing optimisation, safety and cost-effectiveness

2023-08-16T15:51:00+01:00By

The battery enclosures used in the first wave of EVs to hit the market after 2010 were designed to be sealed firmly shut. This took to an extreme the need to be impenetrable, crash proof, fireproof, waterproof and tamper-proof and resulted in mostly irreparable batteries and recycling processes that frequently require people in protective clothing using crow bars to prise open the enclosures protecting these very heavy, high-voltage machines. But technologies and production strategies are fast-evolving.

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Forming innovations – press shops get smarter

2023-06-15T09:17:00+01:00By

Digital tools are playing a major part in innovating press shop operations with data gathering and AI increasing the visibility and efficiency of the forming process

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Shaping the future – Developing electric vehicle architectures

2023-05-02T17:36:00+01:00By

In our AMS Evolution Livestream experts from ArcelorMittal and Gestamp tackle EV production challenges and explain how digital tools, new technologies, processes and materials innovations could help solve some key issues

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Watch: Structural change – Developing vehicle architectures optimised for EV manufacturing

2023-04-25T17:00:00+01:00

Hear expert insights into the development and production of high volume electric vehicle architectures, and how these are driving innovation in manufacturing processes and efficiencies, featuring Gestamp’s North America R&D director Paul Belanger and ArcelorMittal head of automotive steel solutions Jérôme Favero.

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Form and function: Developing production processes and structures for electric vehicle architectures

2023-04-25T10:18:00+01:00By and

The new electric vehicle architectures are also continuing to evolve as vehicle makers strive to find the optimum balance between platform flexibility, while also being viable for high-volume production. To get some insights in to this ongoing process AMS spoke with Paul Belanger, Gestamp’s R&D Director for North America

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BMW Group to source aluminium with reduced CO2 emissions from 2024

2023-02-23T16:48:00+00:00By

The company is planning to source aluminium with significantly reduced CO2 emissions from Rio Tinto’s hydro-powered operations in Canada, starting next year. Compared to conventionally manufactured aluminium, this approach can save around 70% of CO2 emissions

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Mercedes-Benz and Hydro partner to develop a sustainable aluminium supply chain

2023-01-04T12:00:00+00:00By

Mercedes-Benz to collaborate with Norwegian aluminium producer Hydro to reduce the CO2 footprint of aluminium in the automotive supply chain

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Renault advances circular economy reuse, remake, recycle business

2022-12-01T14:46:00+00:00By

The pioneering initiative will reduce the resource, energy and emissions intensity of a car’s lifecycle since some components can have a second life as used, reconditioned parts.

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Watch: Next-gen car body building

2022-10-11T17:02:00+01:00By

Innovations in vehicle body and module architectures are enabling more sustainable production. Experts from REE Automotive, Magswitch and others discuss opportunities in the next AMS Livestream.

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Europe’s carmakers dim lights, turn back to coal, oil, on approach to bleak winter

2022-09-21T15:38:00+01:00By

Automakers crimp energy use and reluctantly turn to coal and oil but options may be more limited for component and material suppliers upstream.

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Watch: Are all OEMs start-up manufacturers now?

2022-07-28T11:18:00+01:00By

In this livestream, learn how OEM start-ups can short time to market in manufacturing and re-engineer body structures, featuring the head of manufacturing at Volta Trucks and ArcelorMittal.

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Renault and China’s Minth Group form JV to produce EV battery casings

2022-06-27T19:56:00+01:00By

France’s Renault and Chinese component maker, Minth Group have announced a joint venture to produce casings to house batteries in electric vehicles.

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After tailpipes, auto industry ponders CO2 purge from its materials

2022-05-27T12:57:00+01:00By

Volvo, Polestar and SSAB ponder how to wring out CO2 from materials now that the internal combustion engine’s fate is virtually sealed.

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BMW Landshut is now using new multi-plate die casting technology

2022-04-12T10:21:00+01:00By

The light metal foundry at the BMW components plant in Landshut is using multi-plate die casting technology, which offers function-optimised component design and design of the required sprue positions and flow paths