TIANJIN, CHINA—Airbus has four A320 Family assembly facilities worldwide: Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; Tianjin, China; and Mobile, United States. By the end of 2022, all commercial aircraft assembly sites will be A321-capable as part of a strategy to de-risk the ramp-up and to meet the rising share of A321 production.
DETROIT, MI—After years of development, GM is signaling it's finally ready to start producing electric vehicles in enough volume—
with a new battery pack—
to grow sales and start lowering costs.
DESOTO, KS—Panasonic will formally break ground for its brand new $4 billion, 4,000-employee factory in Kansas in a private ceremony on Wednesday, November 2nd.
ZHENGZHOU, CHINA—
China's zero-Covid policy is putting a tremendous strain on Foxconn just before the holiday shopping season begins and highlights how the country's stringent Covid policyis hurting international business.
FREMONT, CA—
The Elon Musk-led carmaker will dispatch staff -- in particular automation and control engineers -- to assist efforts to increase output in Fremont, where Tesla produces the Model S, X, 3 and Y vehicles.
COLLEGE STATION, TX—To study how these interactions can impact human trust in robots during production tasks, a team of researchers at Texas A&M University are using brain imaging.
CHICAGO, IL—The 2022 award was presented on Sept. 16, 2022, at IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show at McCormick Place in Chicago by Harry Moser, founder, and president of the Reshoring Initiative. The award honors companies that have effectively reshored products, parts, or tooling made primarily by metal forming, fabricating, casting, or machining, including additive manufacturing.
As supply chain attacks continue to increase, securing the supply chain is at the forefront of lawmakers’ minds. U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order earlier this year that directed the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create guidance “identifying practices that enhance the security of the software supply chain.”
The goal is to reduce computational costs and accelerate Volkswagen’s adoption of quantum computers to develop battery materials that are safer, lighter, and more cost-effective.
Rivian Automotive is recalling more than 12,000 vehicles – nearly every EV it has made to date – to double-check that a fastener in the vehicles' steering assembly was properly tightened. The defect involves a fastener in the front suspension that may not have been tightened fully in some vehicles.
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