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BMW order is biggest ever for press manufacturer
Schuler will sell more than €100 million of automated press shop machinery to Leipzig plant alone, and then there are deals for Regensburg and Munich
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Dürr sells automated assembly line to Chinese factory
It's the second assembly line it's sold to Dongfeng Peugeot Citroën's Chinese plants
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OEMs talk Turkey
Turkey is emerging as a base for manufacturing and R&D. We gauge its potential and look at the challenges
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Russian revolution
Russia's auto industry is experiencing dramatic change with global OEMs and tier ones starting to operate locally
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BASF takes a shine to Mercedes
BASF has developed a waterborne paint process that heightens the metallic effect of colours
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Delphi space welding ideas could have earthly uses
Systems used on space vehicles could be adapted for use in automotive body-in-white facilities
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New Mini gets front end module from HBPO
Assembly of the new model is made simpler with HBPO's front end module, supplied in sequence to the Cowley plant from its new facility in Banbury
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Ford tests high-solids paint
Ford has introduced a high-solids-based system paint system applied in just three wet layers at its Avon Lake assembly plant in Ohio, US
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Water jet cutting aids glass profiling
Saint-Gobain Sekurit's polish manufacturing plant has adopted enings group Profil launches plain studs for automatic insertion in automotive applications
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Faster plant growth
Getting lines up and running quickly can be hard at plants i new territories. Modular production systems could help
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Lifecycle emissions
Production emits more CO2 than most carmakers admit, but its true share of a vehicle’s carbon footprint is being tackled
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Dry film protection for steel
Castrol, working with steel suppliers and OEMs, is developing dry film coatings for steel coils
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Studs ready for body piercing
Fastenings group Profil launches plain studs for automatic insertion in automotive applications
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Crash cans hydroformed in European first
Corus has worked with a Spanish group to make crash cans from a single hydroformed tubular blank
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MSC puts all its simulation stuff together
The developer of Nastran, Dytran and LS-Dyna has put all its simulation packages together in a multi-disciplinary package called MD Nastran
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Improving the process
Dana Traction Technologies Europe has selected the Zeiss CenterMax to supply three CMMs (co-ordinate measuring machines) to improve the manufacturing process of front and rear 4 x 4 axle housings.
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Jaguar saves time and money with RP
Jaguar Cars is making increasing use of the latest rapid prototyping (RP) technologies at its Whitley Engineering Centre in the UK to speed the development of new vehicles by making plastic parts directly from CAD models, therefore eliminating the expense of producing mould tools.
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Mazda adopts more eco-friendly painting process
In collaboration with the Nippon Paint Company, Mazda has developed a new electro-deposition basecoat – as e-coating –which substantially reduces both volatile organic compounds (VOC) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
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A vision thing
Cognex, a leading supplier of vision systems, sensors and barcode readers, presents an application of industrial vision in the automobile industry. Operating at Renault’s factory at Sandouville in France, this application involves checking laser weld imperfections that sometimes cause an assembled vehicle to be sent to the scrapyard.
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Metaldyne brings patented Dynaturn process to Europe
Metaldyne is to use its patented Dynaturn process to supply mini-corner modules for a North American carmaker in Europe, marking the introduction of the process to the European market.
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Zeiss helps Xtrac to tame its dogs
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Smart: the small car company with global ambitions
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The Smart way of building cars
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