Customers always look forward to procuring parts and devices from manufacturers that are reliable in providing quality products that achieve output that does minimal to affect the delivery schedule. Staffan Lundström, product management, parting & grooving, and Bimal Mazumdar, product manager, Sandvik Coromant, explain what it takes to achieve such a status.
Ford Motor is in talks with China’s Changan Automobile Group to produce the brand’s Lincoln series in Chongqing as it aims to make the country its top market for the luxury line, Bloomberg reports.
Toyota Motor plans to construct its third manufacturing plant in Malaysia, as it aims to increase supply in a region expected to grow over the medium term while improving the efficiency of its production network.
These days CAD/CAM is an integral part of metalworking in all sectors and companies are constantly staying one step ahead of the game.
Over the past five years, German automotive toolmaker Konrad Schäfer Modell und Formenbau has switched all its static and portable CMMs, as well as its hand scanners, to Delcam’s PowerINSPECT inspection software. The results of standardising on a single software have included lower training expenses, greater staff flexibility and perfect CAD compatibility.
Additive manufacturing, or more commonly known as 3D printing, will be adopted extensively over the next few years, says 3D printing equipment and materials manufacturer Stratasys Limited. This was based on their 36-question survey involving 700 respondents who are engineers, executives, designers and project managers who already use the technology in their manufacturing processes or plan to do so in the next three years.
Tianjin, China, has caught the world’s attention with its recent happenings and not in a good way. In the past few days, the coastal city that has long served as an important port for the country and shipping and logistics hub has had two terrifying explosions that destroyed buildings, vehicles and infrastructure within a two mile radius, and robbed the lives of at least 50 people with another 500 injured.
Toyota, Japan: Toyota President Akio Toyoda recently unveiled their 2015 plans to introduce the company's first vehicles based on its new, sweeping product development strategy, called Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA).
PROTON Holdings Berhad the ultimate holding company of Lotus Group, announced that it has signed a Joint Venture (JV) Agreement with Lotus Group International Limited, United Kingdom and Goldstar Heavy Industrial Company Limited for a possible business expansion of Lotus cars in the People's Republic of China.
The Toyota Motor Corporation has announced that it will spend US$440 million to launch a new assembly line in China as part of its global plan to reinvent the way it builds vehicles.
