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 ...

Thyssenkrupp and Wilhelmsen launched a 3D printing joint venture aimed at providing 3D-printed spare parts to the maritime industry. Mechanical parts wear out and break. It happens to cars, planes, ...

3D printing has entered the mainstream with carmakers, allowing them to speed up development and production for certain parts. For instance, when Chevrolet modified the design of the 2022 Tahoe, it ...

Volkswagen is is using a new process known as binder jetting to manufacture components at its main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. While conventional 3D printing uses a laser to build a component layer ...

BMW started experimenting with 3D-printing in 2010, when their DTM cars needed lightweight water pump pulleys. Parts made using additive manufacturing processes made it into series production two ...

Carbon, a Silicon Valley-based digital manufacturing company, has showed the first digitally manufactured polymer parts in production for Ford Motor Company. The parts include Ford Focus HVAC (Heating ...

For years, three-dimensional printing has promised to revolutionize the auto industry, potentially saving automakers millions of dollars. And while it's not a widespread practice yet,Mercedeshas ...

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 ...

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, ...

Three-dimensional (3D) printing involves creating an object from a computer-aided design model by fusing a material, such as metal or plastic, layer by layer. The technique is precise and repeatable, ...

Significant progress in additive manufacturing (AM) technology — popularly known as 3D printing — has transformed the ways in which products are designed and manufactured. Over the past decade, 3D ...