Michelin Going Automated and Electric for Logistics
Michelin is implementing a new approach for transporting goods within and between some of its faciliites in France: using autonomous, electric vehicles.
The Transformation of Transportation
We are at the start of a stage where there will be potentially profound changes in transportation as we know it, with the very real possibility that there is going to be cross-town travel being performed in flying, autonomous Ubers.
Tires Can Advance Autonomy
Say a few years from now you’re riding in an autonomous vehicle and it gets a flat. Are you going to change it?
Speed Metal
The grail of metal additive manufacturing is the ability to keep pace with full automotive production. The quest continues.
Why Detroit Needs the Valley—and Vice Versa
Anyone can see the looming changes facing global automakers who are grappling with new technologies, stricter emissions standards, and apps that are turning car buyers into renters (or simply riders). Automobiles are increasingly becoming connected, electrified, and autonomous supercomputers on wheels.
BMW and Additive Tech
BMW is using additive manufacturing technology in ways that are both anticipated and somewhat more, well, usual.
CNC Interior Leather Cutting System; Mobile App for CNC Monitoring; Long-stroke Gripper for Cobots
CNC Interior Leather Cutting System; Mobile App for CNC Monitoring; Long-stroke Gripper for Cobots
Flexible Turning
Lathe maker Index designs to get more types of operations out of each machine.
The Fourth Dimension in Additive Manufacturing
A new software suite for 3D printing analyzes, repairs, and prepares 3D models using the native file formats of a variety of CAD systems, saving the conversion to STL for last.
Advance and Retract
“It speaks a lot of the advantages of having a tremendous amount of vertical integration to allow you to do concurrent engineering.”