Production

A punctured tire is the definition of a bad day, but Michelin is taking some of the sting out as it announces the opening of its newest North American plant, which the company says is the first in the world dedicated to the manufacture of airless tires.

A week after the unveiling of its updated version of the classic Jaguar Mark 2, Classic Motor Cars (CMC) has announced that what was initially a one-off of the 1960s luxury car, will now go into limited production.

Jaguar has used this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed to reveal it's F-Type Project 7 is making the jump from concept to a limited production run of 250. The fully road-legal two-seater roadster will be the fastest and most powerful production Jaguar ever built.

Inspecting products on the assembly line can itself be expensive, time consuming, and not as accurate as it should be. To speed things up a bit, BMW has developed a new system for inspecting bumpers that uses gestures to allow inspectors to literally point out defects.

Gizmag spoke with Raydiance, a company specializing in cutting-edge laser fabrication methods, about its new R-Cut femtosecond laser system that promises a "new paradigm" in high-tech glass fabrication.

Rolls-Royce has announced that the first production Trent XWB turbofan engine that powers the Airbus A350 XWB has left the factory and is on its way to Toulouse, France to be installed in a Qatar Airways A350 XWB.

Jaguar announced today that it plans to complete the 18-car production run of the Jaguar Lightweight E-Type, which was suspended in 1964 after only 12 of the high-performance sports car were built.

The trends in the photography and 3D printing industry suggest that we may be heading toward manufacturing highly customizable, on-demand goods that are locally produced from raw materials and globally distributed digital designs.

Cinema Control Laboratories has come up with a system it calls Andra, which is like an incredibly advanced and configurable autofocus system for large sensor cameras with wide aperture lenses – and it’s already creating some beautiful footage that would be ridiculously hard to capture manually.

Home-brewing can take some serious know-how and even more serious man-hours. BrewNanny is a device with built-in sensors to monitor and offer guidance throughout the brewing process.

Additive Manufacturing is set to change the world and an example of what the printed automobile might look like will be on display at the Geneva Motor Show later this week. The EDAG Genesis is a conceptual sculpture, but it will make you think.

Meet Flying Machine's titanium F-One which is about to go into production as a bespoke titanium bicycle – each customer is measured, and the ideal frame is built to fit that customer using 3D-printed lugs that are unique for each bike.