Zonal architectures, greater automation and continuous data flows are changing not only the wire harness itself, but also the ...

The Volkswagen Group wants to cut a further 50,000 jobs in the coming years, reduce the number of its models and hold fewer ...

The robotics division has secured more than $900m in a recent investment round. The capital is intended to flow primarily into development, production facilities and commercialisation ...

Augmented reality is moving quality inspection closer to the shopfloor. Visometry’s Twyn bridges the gap between manual ...

The aluminium die-casting process could revolutionise body construction. Professor Wolfram Volk, the department head for forming technology and casting at the Technical University of Munich, explains ...

OEMs are keeping options open on transmission supply. Many are moving from an established in-house option and increasingly looking to source externally Body panels, engines and transmissions are the ...

Volkswagen is now testing production methods for batteries at its Salzgitter facility Volkswagen has recently started trialling new manufacturing techniques for lithium-ion batteries at its Center of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and software-defined vehicles (SDVs) are transforming the automotive industry, though the path forward is far from smooth. These technologies promise to reshape everything ...

Ford is cutting jobs at its Cologne factory and will move production there to a one shift operation in January next year. Volkswagen, which is in the process of permanently cutting more than 700,000 ...

Digital twins are rapidly moving from experimental technology to essential engineering tools across automotive manufacturing. At AMS' sister publication's event, Automotive Logistics & Supply Chain UK ...

The choice is revealing, less for the architecture's novelty than for what it signals about Ford's read on the European market. GEA was designed from the outset to absorb ambiguity in powertrain ...

In our final livestream of 2025, we explored how automotive manufacturers are abandoning top-down digitalisation for agile, shop-floor solutions. What we discovered across factory visits is striking: ...