Significant progress in additive manufacturing (AM) technology — popularly known as 3D printing — has transformed the ways in which products are designed and manufactured. Over the past decade, 3D ...

In an industrial office park south of Los Angeles, an American automaker is churning out sports cars in an attempt to transform manufacturing as we know it. “It’s literally like saying in the ...

The movie Back to the Future showed us cars hovering in air in an idea of what 2015 would look like. Now in 2016, we see our cars still bound to the earth. However, when the movie was made, in 1985, ...

Production of General Motors Co.'s 2022 Chevrolet Tahoe was about to begin late last summer in Arlington, Texas, when engineers made a last-minute design change to the tailgate-mounted spoiler. The ...

Both are heavily dependent on technology known as 3-D printing, which takes raw materials and forms them into objects one ultrathin layer after another. Ford uses it to build prototypes and make ...

If you spend any time watching 3D printing videos on YouTube, you'd think the only use of the technology would be for printing Yoda heads and small toys. But the reality is what makes 3D printing so ...

Ford Motor Co. is experimenting with a new form of 3-D printing the auto maker says could solve a structural flaw that has kept the technology from widespread use in manufacturing. The ability to ...