Industry leaders expect sales growth to slow from 2015’s record pace but increase enough to make 2016 another record-setting year for automakers.
Mining, oil exploration, and agriculture are all expected to be tough markets in 2016, making construction and service vehicles the best bets for growth.
Changing customer tastes and vehicle technologies are freeing interior space in critical areas of many new cars.
Larry Turner, president and CEO of Hannover Fairs USA Inc., offers tips for getting the most out of Europe’s largest manufacturing show.
New face-machining approaches improve speed, quality, and precision of powertrain manufacturing.
With automakers moving from welded steel bodies to mechanically fastened aluminum ones, 100% fastener inspection becomes necessary.
The Schuler Group has developed a serial manufacturing system for forming alloyed aluminum grades that automakers have avoided because of poor formability.
Nevada’s Olea Sensor Networks has developed seatbelt-mountable heart-rate monitors that could power future advanced safety systems.
Researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, have developed a metal treating technology to create sheet metal blanks with varying thickness and hardness.