Production

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.

Ducati's resident historian Livio Lodi takes us on a tour of the Ducati Factory near Bologna, Italy, talking us through the production of the 1199 Panigale superbike and showing us the techniques Ducati has used to vastly improve its efficiency, output and reliability.

Earlier this month the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company showcased it next-generation, digitally integrated design and manufacturing process with a tour of its Colorado facility for community leaders from Jefferson County.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) have been selected by ARPA-E to carry out a one year project aimed at developing a low cost method to obtain titanium metal from its ore. The process could lower the cost of the metal by up to 60 percent.

It may consist of only three pieces, but at under a millimeter in size each, we imagine this jigsaw puzzle made at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a little on the fiddly side.

With the World Superbike Championship celebrating its 25th year in 2012, it is an ideal time to reflect on the profound influence the series has had on the development of the everyday motorcycle.

EBIT is a new plastics production technology, that combines blow-molding and injection-molding in one process.