SSAB has produced and sold its Fossil-free steel, which is now being used in limited series production by Volvo. But there is a weakness in the definition of ‘green steel’. Experts from SSAB and Volvo Group share some insights into challenges this presents to the wider acceptance of these materials and how they are managing this with greater transparency.

As the automotive industry seeks to reduce costs and improve efficiencies and productivity, we are seeing an increasing number of partnerships being formed. It’s nothing new to this industry but these new relationships are proving much more necessary and beneficial than previously. Two industry experts, Cengiz Kizilkan, President Global Sales Automation & Executive Director Europe for Magswitch Technology, and Markus Oerder; CEO of Magswitch Technology Europe share insights into what a technical partnership looks like and how they can deliver great benefits.

Autonomous vehicles feature systems and components are in themselves complex. And in production there is similar complexity. In this podcast we’re going look at a key area of the electronic systems for these vehicles, the high-resolution camera modules. Dorothee Brinkmann, Global Market Strategy Head Automotive Electronics at Henkel offers some expert insights into the manufacturing challenges around these components.

Car makers are setting ambitious targets to reduce their carbon footprint in production operations, key to this will be a sustainable supply chain. Experts from steel producer SSAB share some insights into how the company has responded to this important requirement with the development of fossil-free steel.

Jason Orosz, President of Global Heat-treating Services at NITREX, speaks with AMS about the applications for specialist surface treatments in the latest vehicle components

AMS speaks with Karthik Krishnamurthy, global strategy and business development leader, Automotive, AWS, about the development and application of cloud-based services and solutions for the automotive industry, and how these can support managing data, avoiding silos and networking production.

Cobots are a maturing technology and have been widely deployed in automotive manufacturing operations, but as with all automated systems, advances in control systems and end of arm tooling are opening up new opportunities and applications in production processes. In this podcast, Joe Cyrek, president for Automation at Magswitch offers some insights into cobot developments and how this type of automation can support flexible manufacturing operations.