Machining with a lighter touch
Add tool life and productivity advantages to facemilling and unrepeated shoulder milling for automotive manufacturing.
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Automotive
New aluminum technology reduces weight of luxury electric car
Making cars lighter, more energy efficient and safer is a challenge for the entire automotive industry. American electric car manufacturer Lucid Motors chose a new, innovative technology to address the challenge.
Optimizing press-hardening lines can shorten cycle times by 20%
How can you get the most out of an existing press-hardening line? According to AP&T, a company that develops high-performing production solutions for the sheet metal forming industry, when updating a press-hardening line there is significant potential to shorten cycle times and increase production.
It’s a seller’s market
Key industry sectors are experiencing strong demand— so strong that hamstrung manufacturers often can't keep up.n
Driven to finish
Products and tools help perfect engine finishing for the automotive industry.
Lotus Cars Ltd. launches its most accurate sports car ever
Lotus Cars Ltd. is known for the design and manufacture of high-performance cars born out of legendary success on the racetrack. Its latest sports car, the Emira, is by far the most accurate model ever built by Lotus thanks to the use of a 5-axis HC-90TR twin-arm coordinate measuring machine from LK Metrology.
Helping electric vehicle manufacturers compete
Power skiving is the fastest-growing method of gear machining.
Going beyond the basics helps ensure quality
Product quality is a critically important consideration when purchasing electromechanical components, such as electric gear motors. But what does quality mean, and how do you evaluate it as a customer?
Talking points with Sandvik Coromant’s Helen Blomqvist
She began her role as president of AB Sandvik Coromant in Sandviken, Sweden, nearly two years ago, but Helen Blomqvist started working at the toolmaker as a research engineer about two decades ago.
Sandvik holds transmission machining event at training center
Topics at Sandvik's technical training facility included breakthrough methods for turning and power skiving and tips to decrease cost per part, reduce setup and increase precision.
Ceramic surprises
Shops may be unaware of these ceramic cutter applications and developments.
Press hardening reaches a new level
AP&T, a provider of high-performing production solutions for the sheet metal forming industry, has developed a press-hardening production solution that it says lays the groundwork for providing car manufacturers with lighter, safer, more flexible designs that are cost and energy efficient.