Production of the 2022 Chevrolet Tahoe was about to begin late last summer in Arlington, Texas, when engineers made a last-minute design change to the tailgate-mounted spoiler. The move threatened to ...

Automotive OEMs face increasing pressure to improve their supply chains, not only to reduce costs and improve efficiency but to meet environmental demands for a lower carbon footprint. Traditional ...

3D printing takes another step into automotive production with the collaboration of HP Japan, DMM.com, and Subaru. The additive manufactured car parts were produced using HP Japan’s Jet Fusion 3D ...

DEARBORN, Mich. – Ford is experimenting with 3D-printed parts. Ford figures they will be lighter than their metal counterparts, and therefore more fuel efficient. The company will start with spoilers, ...

The movie Back to the Future showed us cars hovering in air in an idea of what 2015 would look like. Now in 2016, we see our cars still bound to the earth. However, when the movie was made, in 1985, ...

The notion of cars and trucks being built up as they snake along assembly lines may seem so 2024 in time as automakers, suppliers and an array of innovative tech companies find new ways to send ...

While 3D printing is likely never going to be able to produce fenders fast enough for high-volume production, at least one type of the technology — binder jet printing — is making big strides in the ...

BMW Group brands 3D-print metal & plastic parts for some exclusive cars. Additive Manufacturing Campus near Munich features 50 metal & polymer printers. High cost of Laser Beam Melting means ...

People often contact me because they want to 3D print a replacement part. The requests have been as mundane as a stove knob or as novel as a replacement crystal for a chandelier. Typically, they are ...

When you want to fabricate something you either start with something and take away what you don’t want — subtractive manufacturing — or you start with nothing and add material, which is additive ...