Last October, the XE SV Project 8 became the first production vehicle made by Jaguar Land Rover to include multiple 3D printed parts, with more than a dozen components created at the company’s Additive Manufacturing Centre (AMC) housed at the Gaydon Advanced Product Creation Centre, in the UK, were used.
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The luxury vehicle brand is one of many automotive companies fiercely adopting the technology to reduce costs and waste during manufacturing processes. For over two decades Jaguar Land Rover has been using additive manufacturing, and the new center is home to one of the largest 3D printing facilities in the country.
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Their engineers are even going beyond the more traditional uses of 3D printing in automotive by adopting the technology to work on the next generation of protective workplace clothing, for example, they recently came up with a lightweight 3D printed glove which could help better protect employees from […]
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