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BMW Takes Multi-Modal Route to Manufacturing
BMW’s Munich factory remains the fertile root of a century of manufacturing, including its first R32 motorcycle in 1923. But the Bavarian automaker’s oldest assembly site is transforming...

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BMW Previews an HMI Future Without Dashboard Screens
The BMW i Vision Dee is an electric tease, dialed up to Las Vegas wattage for a provocative unveiling at CES 2023: A novel digital grille, wrapped with Kindle-style “E-ink”...

Briefs Design
Miniaturized Electrospray System
The technology was developed as an alternative to existing options for in-space aeroponic food production applications.

Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
DIY Kits Enable Users to Build Their Own Peristaltic Pumps for Microfluidics
Users can download the design files to 3D print and assemble a customizable peristaltic pump.

News Manufacturing & Prototyping
A Divergent Approach to Vehicle Development and Production
Among the most intriguing vehicles on display at the 2022 Pebble Beach Concours D’ Elegance was a pair developed by an obscure brand, Czinger Vehicles, and its parent company,...

Articles Materials
Cadillac's Future-Tech Flagship
Restoring the Cadillac brand to its golden-age pinnacle, when it stood equal among Europe’s ultra-luxury greats, has long been an intermittent dream within GM. The grandiose ‘Sixteen’ concept in...

Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
FPT’s New EPowertrain Plant Commences EAxle Production for Nikola Tre BEV
Sustainability is an increasingly significant target for many commercial-vehicle manufacturers’ industrial activities and new products, and FPT Industrial is...

Briefs Medical
Tubing Coated with Light-Powered Catalysts Aids Drug Manufacturing
The new class of materials is insoluble, so it can be used over and over again. Such catalysts could be used to coat tubing and perform chemical transformations on reactants as they flow through the tube.

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Highly Sensitive, Mass Producible Organic Photodetectors
Incorporating new green-light absorbing transparent organic photodetectors into organic-silicon hybrid image sensors could be useful for applications such as light-based heart-rate monitoring, fingerprint recognition and devices that detect the presence of nearby objects

News Electronics & Computers
Keeping Your Silicon Cool
Onboard electronics continue to evolve rapidly. Components are smaller. Systems are more complex. The sophisticated electronics components that make up modern vehicles require precision heat dissipation for...

Briefs Materials
Recyclable Feedstocks for Additive Manufacturing
One common limitation of AM has been that produced articles cannot be recycled without substantial energy costs.

Briefs Green Design & Manufacturing
A New Fabrication Process Produces Smart Textiles
By incorporating a special type of plastic yarn and using heat to slightly melt it — a process called thermoforming — the researchers were able to greatly improve the precision of pressure sensors woven into multilayered knit textiles, which they call 3DKnITS.

Articles Materials
Solving Signal Interference Challenges in Aerospace and Defense Electronics
As the complexity of signal challenges in aerospace and defense technology increases, design engineers need to creatively combine materials to solve multiple problems at once.

Applications Medical
Why Cleanroom Assembly of Plastic Medical and Electronic Devices Requires Ultrasonic Welding Technology
For years, ultrasonic welding has been used in cleanrooms where plastic components are assembled to complete medical and electronic...

Briefs Medical
Surface Mount Technology for PCB Assembly Use Case and SMT in Healthcare Systems
Surface mount technology (SMT) is widely accepted as the ideal process for electronic products that are compact, lightweight, and high speed. Both...

Briefs Materials
Using AI to Help Scale Up Advanced Solar Cell Manufacturing
The system makes it possible to integrate data from prior experiments, and information based on personal observations by experienced workers, into the machine learning process.

Briefs Materials
Upside-Down Design Expands Wide-Spectrum Super-Camera Abilities
Plasmonics is a technology that essentially traps the energy of light in groups of electrons oscillating together on a metal surface.

News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
2022 Honda Civic Hatchback Enjoys Premium Assembly, Weight-Cutting Measures
As a veteran manufacturing engineer, Jill Fuel was an ideal choice for the project leader for the production launch of Honda’s 2022 Civic Hatchback at Honda's...

Q&A Manned Systems
2023 Cadillac Lyriq Executive Chief Engineer: New EV Her ‘North Star’
At the Cadillac Lyriq’s media drive program in Utah, SAE Media spoke one-on-one with Jamie Brewer, Lyriq executive chief engineer, about developing the...

News Software
Faurecia Puts the ‘Wow Factor’ in Its Process Technologies
Faurecia is on a roll. The France-based Tier 1 has been expanding into clean mobility (including hydrogen storage systems) and recently acquired lighting systems giant...

News Design
SAE International Extends Call for Abstracts, Seeks Submissions for AeroTech Conference
Engineering Events staff at SAE International in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, have extended the call for abstracts through September 21 for the...

News Software
BMW 7-Series Drives Itself Through Own Assembly
The 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies” obliquely presaged current-day automated-driving technology when the hero remotely piloted his modified BMW 7-Series sedan through a...

Features Electronics & Computers
Applying Forensic Cost Analysis Methods to Medical Devices
Forensic cost analysis methods have already gained traction in the automotive industry, which has long recognized the value of determining an accurate cost of components and...

Articles Materials
The Science of Joining Dissimilar Metals in Aerospace Manufacturing
With the industry’s traditional focus on welding and brazing, there has been minimal formal education on diffusion bonding.

Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
An Algorithmic Planner Helps Delegate Tasks to Human-Robot Teams
The technology could be useful in manufacturing and assembly plants for sorting packages, or in any environment where humans and robots collaborate.

Application Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Making Automotive Assembly Lines Safer
The moving assembly line remains an integral piece of most automobile manufacturing.

Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Rivian R1T Analyzed by Teardown Expert
Rivian’s R1T is in big demand by both the public and the industry. OEMs are still scrambling to acquire their own examples of the pioneering, innovative electric pickup for competitive analysis...

Features Medical
How These Engineered Extrusion Trends Can Improve Device Design and Patient Experience
Hoses and tubes are extensively used within the healthcare and medical industry in a variety of applications, from wound drains and catheters to drug...

Applications Robotics, Automation & Control
How Automation Can Improve Tubing Manufacturing
As the cost of shrink tubing used in the production of catheters has increased, and supply chain issues caused delivery delays, FEP shrink tubing, for example, has become a very expensive...

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