Manufacturing
Trump election: Issues facing the auto industry
With a change in parties coming to the White House, motor vehicles producers face possible shifts in policy.
Category: Manufacturing
Plants, production systems, automation, materials, and quality.
Industry
Arconic separates Alcoa aluminum, value-added businesses
Arconic launches as standalone company in multi-materials innovation, precision engineering and advanced manufacturing.
Manufacturing
Honda to invest $53 million in Ohio
Quality center, data center joining Raymond campus.
Manufacturing
Types of autonomous vehicles
Federal regulators unveiled policies to guide automakers as they develop self-driving cars and trucks using SAE International’s six-point scale to define levels of autonomous vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) expects automakers to classify all vehicles using SAE levels 0 through 5 in the coming years to identify how safety should be evaluated.
Manufacturing
General Motors’ Q3 earnings more than double to $2.8B
Smaller losses in Europe and South America, booming results in North America lead to big profits.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing orders improve in August
This is the first time since March 2015 that there was growth in all six regions tracked for the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report.
Fleets
Toyota to build fuel-cell bus models in Japan
Large vehicles should test the limits of fueling and service life.
Manufacturing
Lamborghini, MIT form research partnership
Italian sports car company to work with university researchers.
Manufacturing
Caterpillar Chairman, CEO Doug Oberhelman to retire
Jim Umpleby to be new CEO, Dave Calhoun to become non-executive chairman.
Manufacturing
Smaller sealer dispensing tank cuts waste, improves controls
Graco’s 55 gallon tank replaces a 300 gallon system for an American automotive manufacturer.
Manufacturing
5 key changes to ISO 9001
Smithers Quality Assessments reviewers discuss critical updates to the most common manufacturing accreditation standard.