Tag: gestamp

Gestamp employs gigastamping and advanced material solutions to drive lightweighting and sustainability

The Spanish supplier believes it is well prepared for the transformation of the automotive industry. Innovations from a wide range of areas are intended to help. The company presented some of these at the IZB in Wolfsburg.

Gestamp’s Paul Belanger on reducing EV production costs with giga-stamping and cross-functional collaboration

At the AMS Automotive Evolution NA 2024 event, Paul Belanger, Director of R&D North America at Gestamp, shared how giga-stamping and customer collaboration are helping reduce production costs, making affordable EVs a realistic goal for the North American market.

AMS Automotive Evolution: Reducing costs, fast-tracking development, embracing change

The AMS Automotive Evolution conference in Detroit brought together leading car makers and tier suppliers to discuss managing production operations as the EV transition continues. AMS Editor Nick Holt shares some takeaways from the event.

Automotive leaders discuss strategies to bring electric vehicles within reach of the masses through cost-cutting, advanced technologies, and new approaches in North American manufacturing

At the AMS Evolution North America Conference, Ford and Gestamp leaders outlined strategies to slash production costs, tackle supply chain hurdles, and enhance manufacturing efficiency, laying out the groundwork for affordable EVs that meet consumer demand

Automotive Manufacturing Solutions Magazine – Issue 2, 2024

Issue 2, 2024 of Automotive Manufacturing Solutions is out now, with a focus on the North American manufacturing sector, EV and battery production projects, hybrid powertrains, and much more. This issue includes insights from BorgWarner, BMW, Ford and Stellantis. Purchase print edition

Antolin, Gestamp and Fersa using AI to improve production operations

Autoparts from Spain, a collaborative digital project among automotive suppliers that provides intelligence on the automotive equipment and components industry, reports that the radical transformation of the industry supported by artificial intelligence (AI), is providing opportunities for tier suppliers, with benefits already registered by members Antolin, Fersa Bearings and Gestamp.

Gestamp signs agreement with Acciaieria Arvedi for the supply of low-emissions steel

Gestamp will return high-quality steel scrap from stamping parts production to Acciaieria Arvedi, who will reprocess and reintroduce it into the production cycle.

Ignacio Martin Gonzalez, Gestamp: “Steel is still a high-performance product”

For e-mobility, suppliers like Gestamp must be willing not only to produce components, but also to contribute their expertise in terms of design. Ignacio Martin explains how the supplier is preparing for an uncertain future.

Automotive Manufacturing Solutions Magazine – Issue 1, 2024

Issue 1, 2024 of Automotive Manufacturing Solutions is out now, with a focus on sustainability with insights from JLR and GKN Automotive, and supporting features on manufacturing engineering with BMW and Gestamp Purchase print edition

Changing dynamics– developing the next generation of vehicle architectures

Building electric vehicles has demanded big changes in OEM production operations and increased support from tier suppliers. Gestamp’s director of R&D North America, Paul Belanger, shares some insights into the company’s development and how it’s managing the engineering challenges around EVs

The co-evolution of EVs, architectures and production processes

Electric vehicles and batteries are influencing automotive manufacturing decisions, driving changes in vehicle architectures, production processes and material choices. Gestamp and ArcelorMittal discuss their strategies

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

Dive into the intricacies of EV platform design with industry experts from Gestamp and ArcelorMittal. Looking at how current trends are influencing manufacturing processes and the balance between innovation, sustainability, and efficiency.

SSAB and Gestamp forge automotive sustainability partnership for fossil-free steel

Leading Swedish steel producer, SSAB, and Spanish metal component supplier, Gestamp, partner to transform automotive steel with sustainability and performance at its core.

Gestamp joins Catena-X to push digital and decarbonisation strategies

Gestamp has joined the Catena-X data-sharing platform, which is designed to increase visibility in the supply chain and improve the flow of parts and materials.

ArcelorMittal and Gestamp partner to enhance scrap steel utilisation in automotive manufacturing

AMS Summer 2023 – JLR goes electric

In our AMS Summer digital edition, we have features on JLR’s plans to transform its end-to-end industrial system, ready for new electric models, Seat’s technical upgrades to production operations and upskilling the workforce and insights into developments at Audi’s Neckarsulm plant, and more.

Shaping the future – Developing electric vehicle architectures

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

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

Transitioning to build electric vehicles in high volumes is an engineering challenge for OEMs and suppliers, but one that also presents opportunities in manufacturing processes and efficiencies.

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

As much as we read about battery cell development and production, in parallel the new electric vehicle architectures are also continuing to evolve as vehicle makers strive to find the optimum balance between platform flexibility to meet changing market demands for new models, 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

Developing EV architectures optimised for manufacturing

There’s more to electrification than batteries. We look at some of the developments and trends in designing and manufacturing electric vehicle platforms ahead our exclusive livestream featuring Gestamp and ArcelorMittal

Gestamp announces fourth hot stamping line in India

Gestamp has announced its fourth hot stamping line in India at the 16th edition of Auto Expo 2023- Components

Watch: Vehicle lightweighting rises to the top of the agenda for designers and engineers

This livestream investigates how designers and engineers at Ford, Gestamp and key suppliers are using innovative materials and creating lightweight architectures, including for models like the Ford F-150 Lightning and Maverick compact truck.

Global suppliers need modularity and flexibility in the EV age

Electric vehicles bring with them high development costs and large expenses for retooling plants. To get around that, OEMs and tier suppliers must work together to develop flexible, modular production systems, according to panellists from ZF and ABB at last week’s AMS Livestream on electrification.

Watch: Automotive suppliers charging ahead – Electrifying Production Series (Pt.1)

In the first part of our Electrifying Production Livestream series, AMS explores how vehicle electrification is changing major tier-1 suppliers’ manufacturing engineering and design, plant equipment and manufacturing strategies. Featuring experts from automotive suppliers and production specialists including Gestamp and ZF, Henkel and ABB.

Carmakers pledge to switch to all-electric vehicles

The wave of electrification is slowly turning into a tsunami, in Europe at least. Illya Verpraet takes a look at some of the big manufacturing plans in 2021