All Press and stamping articles – Page 15
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WebinarWEBINAR: Hexagon Metrology
Global automotive manufacturers are aiming to improve mechanical and visual assembly quality and reduce rework while accelerating new vehicle launches. 3D Metrology and in-line process control technologies are important contributors for achieving higher-quality products, more stable process and faster ramp-up for new vehicle programmes.The introduction of fast area measurement and ...
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ArticleNew F-150 production gets underway
US – The first unit of the 2015 model rolled off the line at the Ford Rouge Center in Detroit, a facility which has been updated with modern manufacturing technology to build the aluminium-bodied pick-up truck.Ford’s Dearborn Diversified, Stamping and Tool & Die facilities have been equipped with new press ...
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ArticleAvtoVAZ: Saving Togliatti
New leadership aims to restore the fortunes of the Russian giant by reducing its workforce, disposing of non-core assets and implementing Renault-Nissan standardsThe vast AvtoVAZ auto works at Togliatti in Russia represent not so much a factory on the edge of a city as a city which grew up around ...
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ArticleChrysler Warren shines with WCM Bronze award
US – The facility in Michigan has become the first stamping plant and the seventh North American site to achieve the designation, just over four years after implementing the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) system.Bronze status is awarded for earning a minimum of 50 points in ten technical and ten managerial ...
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ArticleGM adds 11 facilities to landfill-free tally
US – The newcomers have brought the OEM’s total to 122 manufacturing and other operations across Asia, Europe and the Americas which recycle, reuse or convert to energy all their waste from daily activities. The additional facilities will help GM to avoid more than 600,000 tons of CO2 emissions per ...
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WebinarArcelorMittal: Why hot stamping is such a hot topic
Are you involved in the designing and manufacturing of parts with advanced high-strength steel (AHSS)? Do you design car bodies and need to save weight while improving safety? Then you surely know that hot stamping is a hot topic. This webinar showed you the current potential and future perspectives of ...
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ArticleFord adds 850 jobs for new F-150 production
US – The new jobs are divided among three facilities: 500 for Dearborn Truck, 300 for Dearborn Stamping and more than 50 for Dearborn Diversified. As a part of the launch of the new F-150, Dearborn Truck Plant recently underwent a major upgrade which replaced legacy manufacturing equipment with the ...
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ArticleToyota production hits 9m in Europe
Belgium – The OEM started manufacturing in the continent in 1971 after establishing Toyota Caetano Portugal, which currently makes the Dyna commercial vehicle. Toyota now has nine plants, including three powertrain operations, in seven countries and has invested over €8 billion ($10 billion) in its European footprint. The 9m-unit milestone ...
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WebinarTRUMPF Solutions for hot forming process chain
Laser technology is a constant companion to the ever-increasing hot stamping technology. A primary application is in the trimming of hardened parts. There is an array of laser applications found in the process chain of hot stamping. The maturing hot stamping process is now going in new directions, exploiting even ...
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ArticleHarlow to lead Chrysler NAFTA Manufacturing
USA – Chrysler Group has appointed Brian Harlow vice-president – head of NAFTA Manufacturing as the successor to Mauro Pino, who will lead Manufacturing for LATAM. Harlow is now responsible for all assembly, stamping and powertrain manufacturing operations in the US, Canada and Mexico, as well as the implementation of ...
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ArticleEuroBLECH: Proving its metal
Between October 21-25, the 23rd International Sheet Metal Working Technology Exhibition in Hanover will exhibit numerous solutions that are useful to the automotive industry For EuroBLECH 2014, organisers will bring together over 1,400 exhibitors from more than 40 countries, in an enlarged exhibition area in Hanover. Over half the ...
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WebinarWEBINAR: TRUMPF hot forming solutions
Laser technology is a constant companion to the increasingly common hot stamping process, a primary application being the trimming of hardened parts. But there is an array of laser applications in the process chain of hot stamping, which is maturing and developing in new directions as OEMs exploit its ...
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ArticleHealthy targets
A safe working environment accounts for both regulation and human behaviour, writes Robert Marshall While automotive OEMs and tier suppliers have not been subjected to such intense global scrutiny as that endured recently by the clothing industry following several fatal incidents in low-cost manufacturing locations such as Bangladesh, worker safety ...
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ArticleVW Anchieta: Production pioneer
As the first VW plant outside Germany, Anchieta paved the way for the OEM’s leading position within BrazilWhen Volkswagen first looked to produce vehicles outside its home nation after the devastation of World War Two, the incipient automotive hub around São Paulo was the location it chose. A bilateral trade ...
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ArticleAvaliando a estampagem
Depois de algumas instalação este ano, nós avaliamos o impacto dos tamanhos de máquinas de estampagem Não há nenhuma dúvida sobre isso: prensas de transferência estão ficando visivelmente maior. Claro, leitos de prensas precisam ser grandes, pois as peças são transportadas através de várias estações durante o processo de ...
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ArticleGM Wentzville adds third shift
US – An additional 750 personnel will be required at the assembly facility in Missouri to build the new Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize pick-ups plus the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size vans.The personnel for the third shift are in addition to the 1,315 that GM announced with ...
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ArticleSizing up stamping
After several huge servo press installations this year, we assess the impact of machine size on stamping There’s no doubt about it: servo transfer presses are getting noticeably bigger. Of course, press beds need to be large because parts are transported through several stations during the forming process, but some ...
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ArticleChrysler: Going global
The OEM's established brands, vehicle line-up and production locations will be repositioned worldwideCreating a single entity out of transatlantic mergers or alliances has proven difficult for Ford and General Motors, despite the One Ford strategy now being seen by some as paying dividends. Likewise, the break-up of DaimlerChrysler some years ...
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ArticleViva, Vauxhall Luton!
A £185m contract to build the new Opel/Vauxhall van has helped to save GM’s only CV plant in EuropeIn late August this year, GM’s last remaining light commercial vehicle (LCV) plant, at Luton in the UK, started series production of the new Opel/Vauxhall Vivaro after securing a £185m contract. In ...
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ArticleChery opens $400m plant at Jacareí
Brazil – The facility in São Paulo State is the first in the country from a Chinese manufacturer and is the OEM’s first full production site overseas. Capacity will reach 50,000 units in Phase One, initially focusing on the Celer and QQ, and will rise to 150,000 in Phase Two.Representing ...