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  2. Tire manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    The body ply is a calendered [6] sheet consisting of one layer of rubber, one layer of reinforcing fabric, and a second layer of rubber. The earliest textile used was cotton; later materials include rayon, nylon, polyester, and Kevlar. Passenger tires typically have one or two body plies. Body plies give the tire structure strength.

  3. Automotive design - Wikipedia

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    Designers at work in 1961. Standing by the scale model's left front fender is Dick Teague, an automobile designer at American Motors Corporation (AMC).. Automotive design is the process of developing the appearance (and to some extent the ergonomics) of motor vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, buses, coaches, and vans.

  4. Pressed Steel Company - Wikipedia

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    South-east facing side of Pressed Steel's Cowley site in January 2007 [1] [2] now home of MINI Plant Oxford Swindon Pressings plant, Swindon. Pressed Steel Company Limited was a British car body manufacturing business founded at Cowley near Oxford in 1926 as a joint venture between William Morris, Budd Corporation of Philadelphia USA, which held the controlling interest, [3] and a British ...

  5. Toyota concept vehicles (1970–1979) - Wikipedia

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    The EX-7 was a 2-seat concept car made by Toyota and shown during the 1970 Tokyo Motor Show. [1] It was an experiment (hence 'EX') to see what a supercar based on the Toyota 7 (hence '-7') racing car would be like. [1] The mid mounted 5 L (310 cu in) engine was similar to the Toyota 7 engine except that EX-7 did not have turbochargers.

  6. List of manufacturing processes - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 December 2024. Manufacturing processes This section does not cite any sources.

  7. Toyota Production System - Wikipedia

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    The TPS is a management system [1] that organizes manufacturing and logistics for the automobile manufacturer, including interaction with suppliers and customers. The system is a major precursor of the more generic "lean manufacturing". Taiichi Ohno and Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrial engineers, developed the system between 1948 and 1975. [2]

  8. Assembly line - Wikipedia

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    An Airbus A321 on final assembly line 3 in the Airbus Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant Hyundai's car assembly line. An assembly line, often called progressive assembly, is a manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until the final product is completed.

  9. Automotive industry - Wikipedia

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    An automotive assembly line at Opel Manufacturing Poland in 2015 SEAT, Škoda, and Volkswagen cars being transported by train in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic in 2014. The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, repairing, and modification of motor vehicles.