Continuous casting remains the backbone of modern steel production, providing an efficient means to convert molten metal into semi‐finished forms such as slabs, blooms and billets. The process ...

Gigacasting confers advantages such as improved car body stiffness, reduced manufacturing cost and reduced assembly time and cost. Credit: Idra Group. In September, Toyota unveiled a prototype of its ...

AUSTIN, Texas - Tesla has backed away from an ambitious plan for innovations in gigacasting, its pioneering manufacturing process, according to two sources familiar with the matter, in another sign ...

GM Powertrain has been applying CAE methods to casting and machining process design for over 10 years, and currently has approximately 20 manufacturing engineers doing analysis work full time. This ...

The recall follows two other large recalls of hybrid Jeep vehicles from this fall, including one due to a spontaneous battery ...

General Motors has quietly purchased a key gigacasting company that was being used by Tesla in its pioneering process of slashing manufacturing costs by casting large body parts for its vehicles. It ...

The Fraunhofer ILT and MacLean-Fogg have jointly produced a complex die casting tool inlay using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB/M). The specially developed L-40 tool steel enables the additive ...

Volvo is spending $1.1 billion upgrading its Swedish auto plant for electric-car production. It's taking a page out of Tesla's playbook by introducing the process of megacasting. Volvo aims to be an ...