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Ford Buffalo: Stampings, Not Wings
Ford is upping its output at its Buffalo Stamping Plant via an investment of $150-million for the production of more than 25 new subassemblies, including hoods, doors and fenders.
Making Faster Factory Modifications
New, inexpensive software stitches laser-scanned point clouds together using scanned objects as the registration targets.
The 2014 Mazda3: Who Knew There Are Machining Centers Involved?
Yes, this is about a new model. An incredibly important model for Mazda, accounting for as much as a third of its global sales. But it isn’t just about the car, it is how they are manufacturing things like its engines that matter, too.
Your Really Smart Car
Vehicles are being engineered with a silicon infrastructure that does everything from control the powertrain to allowing remote connections—including the possibility of hacking.
3D Printing Prototypes Faster and Cheaper
Eight weeks.
JCI on Electrification: There's Still Life in Lead-acid Batteries
Brian Kesseler, Johnson Controls vice president and president of its Power Solutions business unit, which is responsible for the company’s battery business, believes that developments in other types of battery technology notwithstanding, lead-acid batteries will have a role to play under the hood of cars and trucks through 2030.
2014 Chevrolet Cruze Turbo Diesel
One of the problems with compact cars is that although they are, generally, perfectly fine for driving around town, when driving on a freeway—from merging on to passing while on it—tends to be somewhat problematic.
ZF Opens Axle Plant in Malaysia
ZF Friedrichshafen AG has opened its first passenger car axle assembly facility in Malaysia.