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Quality is crucial in the automotive and aerospace industries, underpinning customer satisfaction, efficiency, and safety. Upholding high standards reduces defects and waste, while evolving mobility standards are essential for adapting to technology and competition.

AHP Hydraulics, a Belgian solutions integrator known for delivering "smart solutions in hydraulics," faced a significant challenge from client SIDEM NV, which needed a more precise ball joint tester for its automotive suspension and steering units.

Automakers are embracing automated bin-picking to overcome manufacturing challenges, leveraging cutting-edge vision-guided robotics to boost efficiency in their processes.

PFÄFFIKON, Switzerland—AutoForm Engineering GmbH, a supplier of software for stamping and body-in-white (BiW) assembly processes, has released a new version of its AutoForm Forming R12 software. This version provides new capabilities and enhancements for the sheet metal forming process, in particular for the feasibility and validation phases of stamping processes.

Fully one-third of all U.S. manufacturing inputs come from Canada and Mexico.

Hardness testing is essential in material sciences, particularly through hardness mapping, which generates detailed heat maps from thousands of indentations. Enhanced by AI-based evaluation, this method improves accuracy and is widely used in industries like automotive and aerospace. The article discusses the methods and future of AI-driven hardness testing.

Leak testing applications are evolving rapidly as manufacturers adapt to challenges in electric vehicle production, sustainability, and automation.

As electric vehicles become more popular on land, sea and air, high-voltage testing, analysis and validation is more important than ever.

In manufacturing, recognizing and addressing waste while focusing on value-added work is key to improving operations and enhancing product quality.

Nicholas Blake of Advex AI explains how synthetic examples can be used to help improve training models, what machine vision offers, and how AI inspection can cut training time down from years to hours.