Manufacturing Technologies

As Veit phrased it, Industry 4.0 will “change work”, opposed to “killing work”, noting that jobs are likely to be safeguarded with employee skill-levels being raised.

Festo: Industry 4.0 and automation

The Faraday Future FFZERO1 concept car. Image courtesy of Faraday Future.

Faraday Future unveils first concept car

The new Chinese aircraft carrier will resemble the Liaoning (pictured). Image courtesy of Flickr - Simon Yang

China confirms work on second aircraft carrier

Antony Bourne, global manufacturing industry director, IFS.

Digitisation of manufacturing

CAD

CAD is a lie: generative design to the rescue

IoT Internet of Things

IoT and big data may have arrived, but don’t forget the basics

The latest autonomous drive Nissan Leaf test vehicle being readied for continued city testing outside the automaker’s research center in Silicon Valley - image courtesy of Nissan.

New digital technologies disrupt auto industry

EV bus charging in Xiaoying Charging Complex - image courtesy of Microvast

Beijing ultra-fast EV charging stations fully charge commercial vehicles in 10 mins

Infor launches cloud PLM Solution Designed For Discrete Manufacturers in Europe

Infor-mation technology

Among the assembly tools 3D printed by Opel with its Stratasys FDM 3D Printers are those used to position the roof onto vehicles - image courtesy of Stratasys

Opel reduces assembly tool production costs by up to 90%

The Elio Motors three-wheel model is expected to be released in the fourth quarter of 2016 - Image courtesy of Elio Motors.

Elio Motors makes history with largest ever equity crowdfunding offer