Ford Motor Company Limited

Ford of Europe has recently launched its new portfolio of ZEVs and established its first large-scale EDU production facility in the UK to export to its wider European operations. To encourage further ZEV uptake in support of the UKs 2035 emissions targets, Ford is seeking cost efficiencies through design improvement and optimisation of high-value componen...

The E-BEAMING project is an innovative initiative aimed at transforming the manufacturing of stators, a critical component of electric machines. E-BEAMING brings together industry leaders Ford Motor Company, Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (CVE), and the world-class RTO Warwick Manufacturing Group to develop right-first-time technology for joining hairpin wi...

This collaborative research and development project, led by Ford Motor Company, is dedicated to accelerating the adoption of sustainable manufacturing practices in the electric vehicle sector. Working in partnership with leading UK-based organizations, including Brandauer, HSSMI, and the University of Nottingham, the project aims to develop and implement ...

Currently, UK EV drive manufacturing uses Laser welding as a 'go-to' high-productivity joining process for copper and aluminium components. However, laser welding has shown many short comings, owing to the fundamental limitation of adsorption of laser energy into copper material, and thus greatly complicating the manufacturing processes of PEMD devices. T...

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In the drive to Net Zero the use of Hydrogen can play an important role in future UK transport. Whilst the majority of work looking at using hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles has been focused on fuel cell there is the potential to use hydrogen as fuel within a conventional internal combustion engine as a means of ensuring rapid market penetration of a ZEV i...

Ford of Europe is launching many of its most popular models with hybrid and full battery electric powertrains. Present demand is imported from one global source. Over the coming years, demand is anticipated to support stand-alone manufacture of electric drives and transmissions in the region. The purpose of this feasibility study will be to ensure that th...

The project's aim is to create complimentary engineering capabilities and skills for ultra-high volume manufacture of next generation powertrains. The consortium brings together collective capabilities from manufacturing engineering, the machine tool industry and supply chain, augmented with a cross sector digital visualisation partner. The consortium wil...

The automotive industry is heaviliy being driven towards weight reduction as a means of achieving ever more demanding emissions (CO2 and fuel economy) requirements. Lower weight solutions for traditional steel and aluminium chassis components are failing to deliver the step improvements required to give lighter LCVs or the required weight reductions for H...

"Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been used in prototyping and manufacturing one-off parts. The overall objective of the program is to deploy High Speed Sintering technology (HSS) in a high-volume production environment in series production. Our vision for the High Volume Additive Manufacturing (HVAM) program is to lead in deploying AM technology in a high...

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Ford Motor Company (Ford), Composite Metal Technology (CMT) and M Wright &Sons (MWS) are collaborating on an Innovate UK funded project to develop a new manufacturing process for the production of aluminium castings reinforced with inserts manufactured from long-fibre aluminium matrix composite (AMC) materials, providing localised reinforcement and facili...