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SMMT Chief Executive Mike Hawes recognised for services to the UK automotive industry

SMMT

Mike Hawes, Chief Executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), has been awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the automotive industry in the King’s Birthday Honours List.

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BMW testing Figure 01 humanoid at South Carolina automotive plant

Robotics Business Review

BMW said its Spartanburg facility is the largest automotive exporter in the U.S., STR is an AMR optimized for intralogistics work in BMW’s automotive factories. ” It also claimed that the Spartanburg plant as the first automotive plant in the world to use an exoskeleton for overhead work. and it has assembled more than 6.3

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COMPANIES TO ACTION: UNLOCKING RAPID GROWTH IN THE DIGITAL AUTOMOTIVE ERA

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

The shift towards digitalization in vehicles is giving rise to an increasingly transformative automotive landscape. Finally, the importance of cybersecurity automotive solutions cannot be overstated, given the vulnerability of software-oriented vehicles to security threats.

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New car market ends five months of decline ahead of plate change

SMMT

Despite the growth, August volumes were still the weakest for the month, bar 2021, since 2013 as supply chain pressures continued to constrain the market. Registrations August 2013 – 65,937. 1 Large fleet registrations fell by -1.6%, although this was offset by a 3.2% increase in deliveries to private consumers.

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Flex Ltd. closing Tempe, Ariz., injection molding plant, laying off 50

Plastics News

bought in November 2013. Flex manufactures and designs products for industries including automotive, industrial, health care and others, has more than 100 facilities in 30 countries with about 170,000 employees. The address of only one facility was included on the WARN notice filed with the state on Aug.

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Vecna Robotics raises funding, names industry veteran Karl Iagnemma CEO

Robotics Business Review

in 2001 and led the Robotic Mobility Group at MIT from 2001 to 2013, where I did fundamental research into wheeled mobile robots, the foundational technology for autonomous mobile robots [ AMRs ] and robotaxis,” Iagnemma told The Robot Report. “I I got my Ph.D. It’s a $275 billion opportunity, with 2.5 billion sq. of warehouse space.”

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Safe-Guard Products Canada appoints Managing Director

Canadian Manufacturing

Michel Archambault (CNW Group/Safe-Guard Products International, LLC) MISSISSAUGA — Safe-Guard Products International, LLC, provider of branded protection products for the automotive, RV, powersports and marine industries named Michel Archambault as Managing Director of Safe-Guard Products Canada.