AMS Podcasts

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.

AMS talks with Cengiz Kizilkan, president of Magswitch Technology Europe, to discuss the company’s latest surface adapting technology and the current trends around flexibility and e-mobility in automotive manufacturing operations

In December 2020 Britishvolt announced it had selected a site in Northumberland in the Northeast of the UK to be the location of its gigafactory for cell production. Since then, the company has been using the latest digital tools to plan its production operations as well as developing its battery technology.

For this podcast AMS interviewed Britishvolt’s CIO, David Threlfall to talk about progress with the gigafactory, developing the digital infrastructure for production, building in sustainable and flexible processes

Steel is still the dominant material used in vehicle production so there is a very urgent need to reduce the CO2 produced in its manufacture.

In this podcast SSAB’s business development manager, Jonas Adolfsson discusses the challenges of reducing the emissions in the steel making process and some of the developments and innovations the company has been working on as it targets 2030 for totally fossil-free steel.