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ArticleSitting pretty
Brose UK has now insourced the painting of seat structures, bringing efficiency and evironmental savings"This is a massive show of faith and confirms the Group’s intention of giving us the technology and capability we need to take on and successfully deliver higher volumes for our local customers,” said Juergen Zahl, ...
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Fazendo o Milagre
Parece apropriado que a fábrica onde a Toyota fez seus primeiros carros de passageiros no final da década de 1950, seja agora o cenário de produção pioneira para potencialmente a próxima fase da mobilidade: veículos de célula de combustível (FCVs). Quando a Usina Motomachi na Prefeitura de Aichi, descobriu o ...
ArticleEl futuro a través del Mirai
La falta de infraestructura está ralentizando la presencia de vehículos de energías alternativas aunque los procesos de producción manuales pueden resultar admirables. AMS visitó Motomachi para conocer la producción del vehículo de celdas de combustible de Toyota Parece adecuado que la fábrica donde Toyota produjo sus primeros vehículos de pasajeros ...
ArticleBigger not always better
The largest automotive manufacturing complex in the world boasts five high-tech plants, but sales slumps and strikes have affected output at Hyundai Ulsan. AMS paid a visit to Fifth Plant to see Genesis productionThere is no place in the automotive world like Hyundai Ulsan. With five vehicle plants spread over ...
ArticleEditor's note: The politics of production
I hate to give more attention to an egotist, but when the leader of the most powerful nation on earth threatens to start trade wars with other global big-hitters you have to at least allow for the possibility that he might do what he says. Among others, the key countries ...
ArticleSsangYong: SUV-iving
Korea’s smallest carmaker has recently reported record sales, but its only vehicle plant is still underutilisedSales of 12,697 in a month may not seem like much for a mainstream vehicle-maker – and this figure is certainly dwarfed by the 376,109 units reported for June by Korean giant Hyundai – but ...
ArticleNissan Tochigi's human touch
Automotive manufacturing is known for its robotics, but Nissan’s ‘master craftsmen’ show that there is still a place for human skill. AMS went to see them at work on the GTR and Infiniti models made at Tochigi, JapanMost countries value luxury products, but few cherish the beauty of production quite ...
ArticleMaking a Mirai-cle
A lack of infrastructure is holding back the take up of alternatively powered vehicles, but the manufacturing process can be a wonder of manual labour. AMS went to Motomachi to see Toyota making its fuel-cell modelIt seems fitting that the factory where Toyota made its first passenger cars, in the ...
ArticleHomem ou máquina?
Os fabricantes de veículos estão apresentando equipamentos mais usáveis para aliviar tensões e tensões, dando aos trabalhadores da montagem um aspecto de ciborgue. A AMS reporta as inovações mais recentes lançadas pela Audi e BMW
ArticleMais inteligente e seguro
À medida que as instalações de produção crescem em complexidade através da interconexão de capacidades cibernéticas físicas e humanas, os fabricantes de automóveis estão enfrentando riscos de segurança adicionais ao lado de novas possibilidadesA fabricação automotiva está entrando para o que Christian Dunckern, diretor do Sistema de Produção do Grupo ...
Article¿Hombre o máquina?
Los constructores automotrices están presentando nuevos equipos vestibles para reducir el esfuerzo que otorgan a los ensambladores un aspecto cibernético. En AMS analizamos las últimas innovaciones que están aplicando en Audi y BMW Los robots utilizados en la industria automotriz son cada vez más humanos y pueden trabajar de manera ...
ArticleMás inteligente y más seguro
A medida que instalaciones de producción son cada vez más complejas debido a su interconexión de capacidades cibernéticas, físicas y humanas, los constructores automotrices se están dando cuenta que las nuevas posibilidades están generando nuevos riesgos de seguridad La producción automotriz está llegando a lo que Christian Dunckern, director en ...
ArticleSmarter and safer
As production facilities grow in complexity through the interconnection of cyber, physical and human capabilities, automotive manufacturers are encountering additional safety risks alongside new possibilitiesAutomotive manufacturing is entering what Christian Dunckern, head of BMW Group Production System, Planning, Toolmaking and Plant Engineering, calls “the time of smart devices and digitalisation”, ...
ArticleMan or machine?
Vehicle-makers are introducing more wearable equipment to alleviate stresses and strains, giving assembly workers a somewhat cyborg look. AMS reports on the latest innovations being rolled out by Audi and BMWAs the robots used in automotive manufacturing become more human, able to work collaboratively and intelligently, in one sense human ...
ArticleTravel blog: Getting hands on in Japan
Are traffic lights in public toilets strictly necessary? I would suggest they are a little redundant when the possession of at least one functioning eye can alert you to an available cubicle just as easily. Japan, however, is a nation so fussy about functionality that it takes automation to extremes, ...
ArticlePressionando adiante
Não satisfeito com a instalação da primeira tecnologia PXL no Grupo VW, a Skoda abriu agora uma segunda linha servo-mecânica que é capaz de produzir grandes componentes de alumínio.Mladá - ou "Jovem" - Boleslav parece um nome irônico para uma cidade onde até mesmo a produção automotiva é considerada antiga. ...
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Prensando en el futuro
Skoda fue la primera marca del grupo VW en utilizar la tecnología PLX, además, ahora ha inaugurado una segunda línea servo-mecánica que será capaz de producir componentes grandes de aluminio. AMS visitó la planta Mladá – o “joven” – Boleslav parece un nombre irónico para una ciudad donde incluso la ...