Latest Insights with AMS Partners – Page 23
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ArticleInnovative roll forming
Dreistern’s roll-forming solutions are the key to cost savings and materials innovation, writes Heinrich Weber, sales director with Dreistern GmbH & Co. KG.As one of Germany’s leading producers of roll-forming equipment, Dreistern has developed some exciting solutions to the challenges facing manufacturers of roll-formed automotive parts. Key to Dreistern’s philosophy ...
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ArticleCool India
Dürr’s experience in air-conditioning and cooling innovation can deliver a competitive edge for Indian companies, discovers automotive writer Dermot Healy.Dürr is a major global mechanical- and plant-engineering group and generates around 65% of its sales within the automotive industry. It also supplies the machinery, chemical, pharmaceutical and wood-processing industries with ...
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ArticleA measure of success
Quality inspection in car body construction is moving towards more speed, greater flexibility and the use of intelligent software, writes Judith SchwarzThe automotive industry is placing new challenges on car body construction: more flexible and increasingly complex production processes and systems are required as the number of models grows. Increasingly, ...
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ArticleDriving UK automotive growth
Sustained investment by global vehicle and component manufacturers, the local authorities and the government, has helped Sunderland to become a key carmaking hub in the UKLeading the UK’s new, sustainable, export-led car industry is Nissan at Sunderland. Long hailed as the most productive car manufacturing Facility in the UK, the ...
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ArticlePortable, fast & accurate measurement
Michael Lettau, product manager laser trackers at Hexagon Metrology, explains how ultra-portable high-speed laser tracker technology has developed to produce the multipurpose inspection tools that are driving better productivity in the automotive industryWith global demand continuing to rise, automotive manufacturers face a continuous challenge to enhance their productivity. The need ...
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ArticleIncreasing flexibility & performance
Comau discusses how vehicle manufacturers can improve efficiency through innovative engineering solutionsWhen balancing the needs of a dynamic global marketplace, greater flexibility and higher performance in production operations are essential to automotive manufacturers. The challenge to achieve this is frequently linked to their production facilities, many of which were built ...
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ArticleSupplying South America
Our special regional edition, the first in a series, contains insights from industry experts with a significant presence in South America: Comau, Schenck RoTec, Geico Taikisha, Siemens, Kuka, Carl Zeiss and EMAG.Now available online in four languages – English, Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese – South America 2014 tells how both ...
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ArticleAn innovative EMS approach
Flexibility and cost savings are just two advantages of the latest Siemens monorail technology, writes Nora Schuler, vertical market manager, automotive at SiemensThe manufacturing landscape in South America is presently in a state of flux. The shift that is now taking place is also affecting the automotive industry, giving rise ...
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ArticlePainting perfection
OEMs in Brazil must deliver the highest level of innovation and sustainability, as evidenced by Geico Taikisha’s paintshop tie-in with Fiat in Pernambuco, write Luciano Dinatale, executive vice-president sales and business development, and Gabriele Gironi, executive vice-president operations and engineeringFiat has enjoyed a long and rewarding association with Brazil since ...
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ArticlePerfect balance
Schenck RoTec balancing technologies are at the vanguard of the battle to reduce noise and vibration in automotive components, writes Stephan Roisin, MPS business unit manager, Dürr Brasil Ltda. Div. Schenck RoTecIn the automotive industry, balancing and diagnosis technology is an opportunity to improve component performance quality. The launch of ...
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ArticleAutomating the future
Edouard Mekhalian, managing director of Kuka Roboter do Brasil, looks at how robotics has the potential to put Brazil on the fast track to an automation and skills revolutionThe World Bank ranks Brazil as the world’s seventh-largest economy by gross domestic product. It is also the world’s fifth-largest automotive market, ...
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ArticleA measure of success
Quality inspection in car body construction is moving towards more speed, greater flexibility and the use of intelligent software, writes Judith SchwarzThe automotive industry is placing new challenges on car body construction: more flexible and increasingly complex processes and systems are required as the number of models grows. Increasingly, process ...
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ArticleGear up for efficiency
Modern vertical turning technology can deliver productivity advances that translate into increased profitability, writes Oliver Hagenlocher, head of marketing, EMAGThe gearbox production market is growing and competition is intensifying, according to a study by Roland-Berger which concludes that a market growth rate of approximately 6% within the next two years ...
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ArticleA partnership made in Brazil
The opening of its new plant at Goiana in Pernambuco sees Fiat Chrysler Automobiles overcome numerous obstacles to put Brazil at the cutting edge of manufacturing, says ComauThe new Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Brazilian factory in Goiana, in the state of Pernambuco, was inaugurated just a few weeks ago. Not ...
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ArticleManufacturing optimisation
Todd Montpas, automotive and tyre market development manager at Rockwell Automation, discusses how automotive plants can unlock greater productivity and new efficienciesGlobal auto sales are expected to exceed 85m vehicles in 2014, according to IHS Automotive. If so, this will be the fifth straight year of record sales – a ...
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ArticleA smart solution
Kremlin Rexson and Sames Technologies combined their know-how and experience to deliver a global solution for painting Renault’s third-generation Twingo The new Renault Twingo will be produced at the Revoz factory in Slovenia, preparation for which has involved modifications to the painting and underbody protection processes. These major challenges were ...
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ArticleManufacturing velocity
Todd Montpas, automotive and tyre market development manager at Rockwell Automation, explains how and why vehicle-makers must position themselves to keep pace with market demandsThere is no slowing down in the automotive industry. A customer base with a range of differing priorities for new-vehicle purchases – including safety, fuel efficiency, ...
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ArticleCoding & marking for the automotive industry
Linx Printing Technologies explores how effective coding and marking solutions can deliver important benefits throughout the vehicle manufacturing processWith a modern vehicle containing thousands of individual components, many needing to carry a specific part number, there is no room for error in the selection of coding and marking equipment. From ...
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ArticleSurface preparation for thermal spray coatings
Thermal spray coated liners offer an alternative to cast iron liners in aluminium blocksOne of many challenges for today’s automotive manufacturers is reducing vehicle weight and frictional losses in the powertrain as a means of improving overall vehicle efficiency. This has been a driving force in the adoption of aluminum ...
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ArticleHigh-strength steel: Strong, lightweight & cost effective
SSAB discusses the benefits of using advanced high-strength steel in vehicle structures “When it comes to cost efficiency, environmental issues and value for money, nothing can compete with advanced-high strength steel [AHSS]. The only problem we have today is that our top product could probably use a more sexy image”. ...